Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement Archives - SRDC

Scaling Nurturing the Future

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:10:42 +0000

Phase III of Scaling Nurturing the Future focuses on scaling up an innovative early childhood mental health promotion program within Francophone communities in minority settings across Ontario. Building on previous phases, the project continues to strengthen the capacity of early childhood educators, enhance intersectoral collaboration, and support the integration of practices that promote children’s social and emotional well-being.

This phase introduces new strategies to support sustainability, including training-of-trainers, the development of mental health champions, and ongoing professional learning opportunities. Overall, it aims to embed practices more deeply within participating organizations while expanding the program’s reach at a provincial level.

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Research on Public Employment Service (PES) Accessibility for English-Speaking Quebecers

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:28:39 +0000

Research on Public Employment Service (PES) Accessibility for English-Speaking Quebecers

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Advancing a Sustainable Buildings Workforce for Canada

Wallaa Daramlly — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:57:44 +0000

CAGBC and partners are conducting labour market research on employment trends and demographics analysis, as well as developing training curricula to grow and reskill the green construction workforce to support decarbonization of Canada’s buildings and help meet 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets. Using a mixed-methods approach, SRDC is supporting both ongoing monitoring and impact evaluation across all program components, including labour market information (LMI), stakeholder engagement activities, employer-facing tools, and training resources developed by CAGBC and its partners.

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Employment Support for Refugees with Lower Levels of English in Their First Year in Canada

Wallaa Daramlly — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:35:03 +0000

Led by MOSAIC, this project pilots a targeted training and employment support approach for refugees within their first year in Canada who face barriers to accessing existing services, particularly due to lower levels of English proficiency. Delivered through two cohorts serving up to 24 participants, the project combines customized language training with early labour market supports, cohort-based peer learning, and supported referral pathways between settlement and employment services. The approach builds on insights from a 2025 Future Skills Centre project and addresses gaps in current services from the perspective of refugees navigating employment systems in British Columbia.

The project tests whether targeted programming accelerates labour market integration and self-sufficiency for refugees with low English proficiency. Through ongoing evaluation, the project examines which elements of the programming, such as tailored English language training and first language supports, are most effective in helping participants find and sustain employment, and how participant outcomes compare with historical settlement and employment trajectories. Findings will be used to refine the program and inform future replication.

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Sector Consultation on AMSSA’s IRCC-Funded Services

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:53:14 +0000

SRDC is contracted by AMSSA to conduct a sector consultation and collect feedback on their IRCC-funded indirect services.

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Tourism HR Canada Belong Project Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:49:11 +0000

The Belong project is a three-year, pan-Canadian initiative funded by Employment and Social Development Canada’s Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities. It promotes disability inclusion and accessibility in the tourism sector by providing employers with data, training, resources, and tailored supports across the hiring, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities. The project is bringing together key partners at local, regional, and national levels, including employers, community organizations, and people with disabilities, to identify needs and support project delivery.

Tourism HR Canada is engaging the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) to lead an evaluation of the Belong project to examine the extent to which the project has increased awareness and capacity for disability inclusion in the tourism sector. The evaluation is examining outcomes that extend beyond direct hiring measures, including shifts in organizational culture, increased dialogue around disability inclusion, and knowledge transfer across the sector. The evaluation also aims to identify evidence-informed recommendations for program improvement and identify options for sustaining and scaling project components.

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CAGBC Transition Planning Project Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:48:27 +0000

Led by the Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC), the Transition Planning Project: A Tool for Accelerating High Performance Building Codes across Canada provides guidance to building owners and industry practitioners on decarbonization transition planning across their portfolios. To support this objective, the project is developing a Transition Planning Guide and a series of asset class-specific Transition Planning Playbooks, as well as providing workshops to support building owners and implementers in pursuing decarbonization of buildings.

The evaluation objectives are to assess overall project effectiveness, including:

Program reach, engagement, and participant satisfaction;
To what extent project implementation affected project outcomes;
Changes in participant knowledge, confidence, and readiness to apply transition planning concepts in practice.

The data collection plan includes a pre-post workshop design combined with qualitative data collection, including in-person observation at the two Toronto workshops and two focus groups.

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LINC Sector Coordination

Wallaa Daramlly — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:06:50 +0000

This project engages with LINC Sector Coordination stakeholders such as attendees at LINC Gatherings, members of the Settlement Language Working Group and Advisory Group, participants in LINC teacher training, and MOSAIC staff through interviews and focus groups. The goal is to learn what is working, for whom, and why, and to identify areas for adjustment.

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Scaling & Replicator Strategic Evaluation and Learning Support for FSC

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:12:24 +0000

SRDC is undertaking several evaluations within new categories of Future Skills Centre (FSC) projects. The SCALE initiative invited existing FSC partners whose projects were ready for the next scale-up phase to apply for additional funding to advance their projects along a clearly defined scaling pathway. The projects were selected to answer pressing strategic questions that represent gaps in knowledge and/or practice – and around which FSC investment strategies are oriented. The projects embrace ongoing testing of program feasibility and effectiveness derived from specified scaling objectives. The REPLICATE initiative funds FSC partners whose projects present the best evidence of effectiveness and impact to conduct replication projects with up to two or three different partners working in different geographical locations. The projects test the feasibility of replication as further proof of the effectiveness of the program and help to further build up a cohort of partnerships ready to move towards full scaling and sustainability, as well as test replication as a strategy for project sustainability.

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Developing and Testing Housing Solutions for People Involved in the Justice System

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:06:14 +0000

This project, led by the John Howard Society of Ontario’s Centre of Research and Policy, is focused on collaboratively developing, implementing, and evaluating housing solutions for individuals with high or complex needs who are facing homelessness upon reintegration into community after release from incarceration. SRDC is supporting JHSO to bring together community partners to co-create and design unique housing solutions that can be readily integrated alongside existing release planning supports. Partners are then piloting the new housing solutions in Ontario communities. SRDC and JHSO are carrying out a robust evaluation, and then sharing findings and lessons learned with other communities across Canada to inform their efforts to tackle pressing housing challenges among justice-involved individuals.

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