Telling the TRIEC Story: TRIEC at CERIS conference, May 13, 2011
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New Realities. New Opportunities. Views of the Community: Telling the TRIEC story of change Elizabeth McIsaac, TRIEC CERIS Community Research Symposium – Measuring the Impact of the Sector Serving Immigrants: Moving Forward May 13, 2011
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This presentation details the goals of TRIEC, the progress that has been made around building awareness of the skilled immigrant talent pool and engaging employers to hire newcomers. It also describes the programs that TRIEC offers to support immigrant integration in the workplace.
Transcript of Telling the TRIEC Story: TRIEC at CERIS conference, May 13, 2011
New Realities. New Opportunities.
Views of the Community:
Telling the TRIEC story of change
Elizabeth McIsaac, TRIECCERIS Community Research Symposium – Measuring the Impact of the Sector Serving Immigrants: Moving ForwardMay 13, 2011
TRIEC: A social innovation
1.What change are we trying to achieve?
2.How do we know if we are making progress?
3.How do we know if it adds value?
Achieving change through employer engagement
Awareness
Increasing employer awareness of the value of immigrant skills, education and experience
Indicators:• The message• Media coverage• Employer awareness
(issue)• Employer awareness
(TRIEC)
Challenge:• How do we know if the
message made a difference?
Moving the message
Capacity
Increasing employer capacity to capacity to explore solutions and opportunities
Indicators:• Participation in
learning • Internal leaders and
champions• Readiness for action
Challenge:• Process of change is
a long cycle
Action
Enabling employers to take actionaction and engage in solutions that result in immigrant employment
Indicators• Program participation• New ideas and
solutions• Networks /
partnerships• External leaders and
champions
Challenges• Attribution• Telling the story
Tracking the ripple effect
The American Express Story
VP Legal mentor wins Mentor of the Year
VP Legal mentor wins Mentor of the Year
Mentoring Program expands to peer group
Mentoring Program expands to peer group
Holds onsite recruitment event w/ TRIEC partners
Holds onsite recruitment event w/ TRIEC partners
Joins TRIEC councilJoins TRIEC council
20082005/6 2009 2010
Individual mentors sign-up
Individual mentors sign-up Joins TRIEC’s
York advisory committee
Joins TRIEC’s York advisory committee
HR intro to TRIEC partner agencyHR intro to TRIEC partner agency
Hosts BUILD IT launch, Amex President speaks
Hosts BUILD IT launch, Amex President speaks
Mentoring Program expands to other divisions as part of diversity initiatives
Mentoring Program expands to other divisions as part of diversity initiatives
Director of IT joins BUILD IT advisory committee & commits her division as pilot
Director of IT joins BUILD IT advisory committee & commits her division as pilot
Continues to participate in BUILD IT initiatives
Continues to participate in BUILD IT initiatives
Challenges in evaluation
• As a vehicle for building social capital to solve a complex challenge in a large, complex region, what difference have we made? What has been the impact?
• How do we measure / map the relationships, networks and their strength to collaborate, coordinate and find solutions?
• Does the innovation as an intervention add value? What are the best conditions for innovation? As it relates to funding? Leadership? Capacity for collaboration?
• There are multiple interventions that bring together stakeholders to develop local strategies – are we adding value? Are we building effective and meaningful linkages amongst ourselves? Is there synergy? Or more noise?
