Transcript BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy (BCAWS) Private Sector

Tapping Underutilized
Talent: The BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy (BCAWS)
Private Sector Engagement Forum
May 10 &11, 2006
Background
The BC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy
(BCAWS) is an employer engagement
strategy shaped by:
 BC’s 10 First Nations AHRDAs
 ACCESS - Urban AHRDA
 Metis AHRDA
 Aboriginal Post-Secondary
Coordinators
 BC Association of Friendship Centers
 Employer representatives
 Service Canada, Indian and Northern
Affairs (INAC), and the Ministry for
Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation
(MARR).
BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy
Program Design
The BCAWS is designed to:
1.
Identify real and pertinent information about a
company’s employment and economic
opportunities and to share this information with
Aboriginal Employment, Training, Education and
business interest organizations in order that they
will become more aware of the career,
procurement and training opportunities within
our partner companies.
2.
Build the capacity of our partner companies to
effectively recruit and engage the aboriginal
community by playing a facilitative role to link
our partner companies with the Aboriginal
community so that they may develop strategies
and action plans for working together to
increase aboriginal workforce participation.
BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy
Program Components
 Signing Ceremony
 Employer Steering Committee/Internal
Working Group.
 Workplace Assessment
 Aboriginal Employment Strategy
 Occupational Inventory
 Procurement Inventory
 Aboriginal Awareness Training
BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy
Program Successes!
On January 12th & 13th, 2006, Aboriginal Job Seekers
attended an exciting Job Fair with one of our employer
partners, Thrifty Foods.
BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy
Program Successes!
March 2004 - BCAWS/VPD Partnership Signing
12 Aboriginal officers
March 2006
20 Aboriginal officers
60% increase
BC Aboriginal
Workforce Strategy
BCAWS Signed Agreements
* Interior Health Authority – May 10th, 2006
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) March 7, 2005
City of Vancouver – November 16, 2004
Thrifty Foods – November 15, 2004
Independent Contractors and Businesses Association
of BC (ICBA) – October 28, 2004
City of Fort St. John – June 14, 2004
BC Construction Association (BCCA) – June 10, 2004
Duke Energy Gas Transmission – March 15, 2004
Vancouver City Police – March 2, 2003
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) – July 10, 2003
London Drugs – June 4, 2003
City of Dawson Creek – November 1, 2002
Vancouver Island Health Authority – June 20, 2002
Royal Roads University – June 3, 2002
More Information?
Please Contact:
Nadine Hoehne, BCAWS
Implementation Coordinator
604-230-9025
[email protected]
Sheryl Engdahl, BCAWS
Implementation Coordinator
604-992-4253
[email protected]