Employment Ontario Community Survey Participation Closes 5 pm October 4th 2025
As part of our Employment Ontario Integrated Employment Services transformation, WCG is pleased to invite you and your staff to participate in the survey by clicking on the link below. We ask that you share it with your team, because the more perspectives, the better it will help us grow our services https://tinyurl.com/4ur8m828 (closing date October 4, 2024)
As a valued community partner, we wish to learn from your experiences in supporting equity deserving individuals, to help inform the development of our delivery model. We believe your insight and feedback are crucial to the success of WCG developing effective employment services for all communities across Toronto.
Rest assured your responses will be anonymously collected, nor will your name or affiliation be published (detailed information on privacy & data collection below). We will be sharing the results with all of those who participated, which we hope will support you and your organization in future service development.
Below, we have highlighted the next steps in our research and service design along with further opportunities to participate in Employment Ontario. In the meantime, we encourage you to please subscribe for updates and future funding opportunities with Integrated Employment Services here.
Thank you for your anticipated participation. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and continuing our collaboration. In the meantime, if you have any further questions, please contact us via email.
Warm regards,
Sarah Brooks, Downtown Toronto Community Integration Specialist, sarah.brooks@wcgservcies.com
Kadaesha Lindsay, Scarborough Community Integration Specialist, kadaesha.lindsay@wcgservices.com
Chantel Cole, Etobicoke Community Integration Specialist, chantel.cole@wcgservcies.com
Ryan Berg, North York Community Integration Specialist, ryan.berg@wcgservcies.com
Next Steps
- October – November 2024: our research partner Blueprint will be working with us to collate the research to support program design.
- December 2024: WCG will share our findings with you, which we hope will give more insight in further supporting your service users
- January 2025, onwards: WCG will be developing community partnerships, informed by the research. This will include, addressing gaps in our provision and releasing funding opportunities.
Electronic surveys will be distributed, and responses stored in a secure cloud-based online survey platform (Qualtrics). The surveys do not collect any personally identifiable information such as names, SIN, or contact information. All cloud data is stored in data centres located within Canada. Only members of the Blueprint research team will have access to the survey and data. Every Blueprint staff receives data privacy and security training, and all researchers have obtained TCPS 2 certificates on research data ethics. Blueprint has a robust set of IT policies regarding data access, retention, and disposal. Blueprint meets FIPS 140-2 standards for encryption with all sensitive data stored on a server located in a locked room in our Toronto office. Staff access to project folders on the encrypted server is strictly controlled according to corporate policies and procedures. Backups are managed by Bitlocker and are saved locally on encrypted drives located in a locked room in our offices. Sensitive information is never saved on individual users’ hard drives, on cloud network drives, or on unencrypted external drives. Bitlocker is deployed on all local computers, such that any cached data stored when viewing sensitive information on local computers is encrypted. Finally, all machines across all platforms are kept up to date within 30 days of the latest security updates.
