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A disproportionate number of people with serious mental illness in Canada are unemployed, or detached from the labour market, and the numbers of people with mental illness transitioning onto disability…
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast…
REDF commissioned a first-of-its-kind jobs study to evaluate the impact of social enterprise for people facing barriers to work and its benefits for society. Social enterprises (SEs) are mission-driven businesses…
Canada’s approach to training and development needs reform. Billions of dollars are being spent annually on job training and skills development with limited evidence of lasting benefits. Most problematic, employers’…
This paper focusses on improving support into the job market for people with health conditions and disabilities and those facing long-term unemployment, who face considerable disadvantages. Growth in the economy…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité du Canada (RDÉE Canada) and the Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation (CEDEC) are proud to present the framework for the…
Do investments in poor neighborhoods really make a difference? In a new study by LISC, the answer is yes. The report shows that in neighborhoods where LISC invested heavily, jobs…
Most community organizers may not go into this work to become job creators, yet economic theory and widely accepted government formulas – such as used to calculate the impact of…
Creating more and better quality jobs is key to boosting growth, reducing poverty and increasing social cohesion. At the national level, job creation requires a stable macroeconomic framework coupled with…
This information sheet is part of the Tailor-Made series, which aims to share evidence about the difference the community sector makes to our lives. Specifically, this information sheet looks at the role…
It is common for people without work to experience not one, but multiple barriers to employment. Success Themes in Supportive Employment identifies practices that contribute to the success which certain…
In their September 2013 declaration, G20 leaders agreed that creating more and better quality jobs should be at the heart of government policies in the recovery, not only to create…
