Children who meet CLB eligibility criteria are provided an initial payment of $500 into their registered education savings plan (RESP), as well as an additional $100 for each year they are eligible up to age 15 (for a maximum allocation of $2,000). Children in care (i.e., who have a public caregiver who receives an allowance under the Children’s Special Allowance Act) are also eligible for the CLB regardless of their household income.

SRDC analyzed newly available data to examine CLB allocation and how it promotes higher education savings, with a special focus on variation by birth cohort and household income, as well as among urban and rural Canadians. This report answers three research questions:

• What is the allocation of CLB funds to families by birth cohort and household income?
• What can current data tell us about the catalytic impact of the CLB on education savings, broken down by birth cohort and household income?
• What are the specific barriers to accessing the CLB among rural Canadians?

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Mr. Downing’s primary role was to identify and engage the six WISE partners that are organized in two clusters in Abbotsford and Hazelton, BC, and to bring together and facilitate the Learning Community that provided input and advice on the research findings, as well as share out best practices and findings from the project in support of the broader WISE sector across the province. This report provides a final overview of the project, including a description of how it was designed to address its key research questions.

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(1) Outreach and mentorship for tradeswomen;

(2) Shifting the culture through leadership development and training; and

(3) Building workforce diversity through organizational capacity.

In collaboration with the project partners, the BC Federation of Labour is funded to implement the BCCWITT from May 2, 2018 to May 1, 2020. The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation designed and carried out the evaluation to capture the effects of BCCWITT’s activities and to assess the program outcomes. The evaluation period in this report is from May 2018 to December 2019 — 18 months. The evaluation was grounded in a mixed-methods approach. The data sources consisted of administrative data; surveys with tradeswomen; surveys with participants in the Be More than a Bystander training; surveys with participants in the Diversity and Inclusion train-the-trainer training; focus groups with women in trades; and interviews with employers, program staff and stakeholders. A detailed description of the methods and data sources is included in the report.

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Given these research and data gaps, a better understanding of the current realities of this population with respect to working in the trades is important for evidence-based policy considerations. This project uses a mixed-methods approach, combining multi-cycle data from the Canadian Community Health Survey along with stakeholder interviews, to address the following questions:

(1) What are the employment patterns and socio-demographic profiles of lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations in the trades in Canada? And
(2) What are the perceptions of key stakeholders in terms of the experiences, barriers, and available supports for 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in the trades?

The findings from this project will be used to provide ESDC with insights and recommendations with respect to the participation of 2SLGBTQ+ populations in the trades, with a particular emphasis of further areas for research and data development.

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Our findings highlight 2SLGBTQ+ youths’ experiences of housing precarity and map their journeys across housing and housing services. Youth and service providers co-designed and validated the findings, including a queer housing continuum prototype and actionable solutions.

The report contains executive summaries of Phase 1 and 2, infographics of key findings, and recommendations for service-providing organizations, community members and businesses, and decision- and policy-makers.

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This report brings together data generated from the AWET evaluation, a literature review and qualitative interviews with employers, key informants and women in the sector. The purpose of the report is to explore the factors that contribute to a successful diversity and inclusion initiative, to identify the major barriers and what to consider the insights a GBA+ lens brings to the understanding of diversity and inclusion for equity seeking groups in the sector.

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The analysis is to promote a better understanding of the relationship between the current measures and child outcomes, and to identify priorities to improve the collection of data on family dynamics in Canada.

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SRDC designed and conducted the Navigating the Labour Market project for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

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