Work experience: A quantitative impact assessment
In 2011, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) introduced the work experience program (WE) to help young unemployed people get valuable work-based skills and the practical experience they need...
View ArticleBehavioral Interventions to Help Workers Keep their Jobs after an Injury or...
For many individuals with health problems that threaten their ability to work, the decision to leave their jobs—either permanently or temporarily—is often made without fully understanding the short-...
View ArticleHiring subsidies for people with disabilities: Do they work?
While the proportion of working-age individuals relying on Disability Insurance (DI) benefits has increased, the labour market integration of people with disabilities remains very low. In the OECD, the...
View ArticleOnboarding Refugees: A Toolkit for BC Employers
Individuals who have worked in varying workplaces in Canada for some time have naturally adopted and generally better understand established Canadian workplace practices and norms. However, newcomers...
View ArticleHow Individual and Environmental Factors affect Employment Outcomes (of...
There is growing interest among practitioners and policymakers to improve delivery of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services to enhance employment outcomes of people with disabilities. However,...
View ArticleSustaining people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in employment: A...
The World Health Organization estimates that 35.6 million people worldwide early onset dementia and of these, 10 per cent are under 65 years of age and potentially still in the workplace. In the face...
View ArticleTransition from CAMHS to Adult Mental Health Services (TRACK): A Study of...
There is much concern about the transition of youth with mental health issues from child/adolescent to adult mental health services. This is complicated by their passage from childhood to adulthood...
View ArticleLearning from the Best: Leveraging the Practices of Top Work Units in the BC...
The BC Public Service Agency sought to understand how to better foster employee engagement in the BC Public Service. Towards this end, the agency commissioned BC Stats to study and interview the most...
View ArticleNextStep: The YWCA Multi-Dimensional Mentoring Pilot Project — Final Report
NextStep is a research and innovation project where industry professionals provide group and individual mentorship to recently educated graduates who are unemployed to help them better integrate into...
View ArticleYWCA NextStep Mentorship Program – Mentorship Best Practices Toolkit
The YWCA Metro Vancouver created the Mentorship Best Practices Toolkit based on the insights gained from operating the NextStep Mentorship Program, which operated from 2014 to 2017. In the toolkit,...
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