Canadian Career Development Foundation

Building for the Future: Endowment Fund

The Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) sponsor an endowment program which promotes innovation in the field of career development.

Up to $7,500 may be awarded annually to support the development and delivery of creative and practical approaches to training and practice. The deadline for submissions is October 31. Please use this Application Form to construct your proposal. There is no provision for completing and submitting your proposal online.

Past Projects
2012
Where’s the Work: Helping Career Practitioners Explore Their Career Options
Life Strategies

The objective of the project was to provide career practitioners with a better sense of where work exists for them, beyond government contracts. To support the real need for quick and affordable professional development, project materials included a series of webinars and a supporting handbook using case examples to bring to life the diversity of work options available to career practitioners.


2010
Managing Diversity at Work E-Course
Life Strategies

This project developed an online course for career practitioners, career development service providers, and human resource professionals to help them work effectively with employers to enhance their cultural diversity awareness and support them to avoid discrimination in the workplace.

2009
Career Coaching Across the Curriculum: Integrating Career Development in Classroom Instruction
University of Lethbridge
This project integrated Career Development into teacher training by giving student teachers the opportunity to take a new elective course entitled Integrating Career Development Strategies into Classroom Instruction. Following the completion of the course, students were given the opportunity to function as interns in various schools throughout southern Alberta where they had the opportunity to transmit the knowledge, skills, attributes they acquired in the elective course to their students through specialized curriculum.
2007
Credentialing Across Canada: Valuing the Career Development Sector
Career Management Association of BC

This project held consultations and dialogues with other provinces on the credentialing of the career development practitioner within their province.

2005
Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing
Opportunities for Employment Manitoba

A project to apply the Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model and Motivational Interviewing to address the specific motivation and needs of job seekers at various stages of change.

2004
Start Smart
Fanshawe College, Ontario

A program that combines literacy development with career development for both parent and child.

2003
Mobile Employment Resource Centre
Les enterprises ROPA, New Brunswick

A mobile employment resource unit that travels to small communities in the Chaleur Region of northeast New Brunswick. It provides career and employment services to communities who have limited or no access to employment centres.

2002
Club Horizon
Horizon School Division, Saskatchewan

An adventure career counselling club for high school students. Students apply career related knowledge to concrete and experiential ventures.

2001
Seine River Project
Career Trek, Manitoba

A project that introduces at-risk youth (10-12 years) from urban and rural communities to post-secondary settings through an individually-tailored, 20-week learning program. The project seeks to give youth hope, a belief in themselves and their futures and the educational confidence with which to embrace lifelong learning.