Get involved in Talent City Vaughan program training

The Talent City Vaughan program launched earlier this year, providing micro-grants of up to $10,000 to external organizations expanding their training programs, thereby helping Vaughan residents develop tangible career skills.

Are you a Vaughan resident wanting to take your career to the next level? The Talent City Vaughan webpage has the information you need to register for the fall 2022 workshops and programs offered by the following participating Talent City Vaughan organizations:

• Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women – Train as an interpreter with a 100-hour program, including how to lead skill-based activities, such as vocabulary,  paraphrasing and note-taking in an in-person group or virtually. This program also features a marketing component for building a business as an interpreter.
• Human Endeavour – Train in bookkeeping, accounting, communication, email etiquette and Microsoft Office Suite. 
• Humanity First – Access professional development skills training for volunteers in warehouse management, customer/client service and Microsoft Excel.
• Kleinburg Nobleton Soccer Club – Participate in community soccer coach training for youth interested in seasonal employment.
• Memory Loss Foundation – Learn the skills required for personal support, dietary aid and program aid workers to manage and care for individuals with dementia.
• The Career Foundation – Gain hands-on training in furniture manufacturing through a partnership with a Vaughan-based furniture manufacturer.
• Vaughan International Film Festival – Participate in four post-production workshops, including film and video post-production stages, such as colour science, visual effects, sound mixing and video editing.

With a broader scope of skill-development opportunities, the program aims to strengthen the city’s workforce by encouraging organizations and employers to invest in local talent.

The Talent City Vaughan program is part of the Advantage Vaughan initiative. The program supports part of the strategic pillars of Advantage Vaughan, which include:

• local small business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Vaughan’s residents who make up the city’s talent base.
• Vaughan’s local organizations which animate the community and foster local destination development opportunities.
• community branding and building to demonstrate the advantages of doing business in Vaughan.

Advantage Vaughan fosters economic prosperity, investment and social capital through funding opportunities for the business community and training opportunities for local talent development – key priorities outlined in the City’s 2018-2022 Term of Council Service Excellence Strategic Plan. The plan builds off the momentum of the Vaughan Business Action Plan, approved in March 2020 as the first phase in the response efforts to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the Vaughan Business Resilience Plan, which began in June 2020. 

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