The CDEC plays an important role in mobilizing CDN/NDG employment
services agencies in order to ensure that available services,
resources, and programs available to residents adequately respond
to their needs. The Table de concertation des organismes en
employabilité CDN/NDG, under the responsibility of the
CDEC, boasts 12 members representing non-profit agencies as
well as government partners. Member agencies of this Round Table
offer “preponderant and significative” employment
activities via government funding.
An initial Round
Table of local employment groups functioned briefly during the
early years of the CDEC from 1993 to 1995. Following a dormancy
period a revised formula – the Table de concertation des
organismes en employabilité de CDN/NDG (or TCOE) –
was created in 1999 when 8 of 9 employment groups in the CDN/NDG
borough responded to an invitation by the CDEC to participate
in a process of consensus-building. The subsequent meetings
produced a structure and action plan arising from a mission
statement adopted by the 8 founding members : « To foster
the collaboration of employment organizations in order to ensure
an effective response to the needs of the clientèle »
.
In the years that
followed the TCOE accepted new members and engaged in such activities
as :
o Regularly scheduled
meetings to exchange information and strategize actions
o Adoption of action plan, membership guidelines and logo
o Creation of an employment services Guidebook
o Liaison with new employers (Provigo, Réno-Dépôt,
Canadian Tire) and bulk screening & referral of local potential
employees
o Development of local Employment Fairs showcasing employers,
community groups and local manpower potential
o Structuring of professional development workshops given by
local staff and invited external resources
Since 1999 a number
of members have disbanded or moved out of the borough :
o MAP Minority
Apprentice Project (no longer active)
o Mode d’emploi Services for handicapped persons (moved)
o CME NDG Centre Multi Ethnique de NDG
o Petites-Mains Labour Market Insertion - Industrial Sewing
(moved)
o BCRC Black Community Resource Center (lack of resources)
Currently the TCOE
meets 8 times per year. Participating members are :
o ALAC Association
Latino-américaine et multiethnique de Côte-des-Neiges
o CDEC CDN/NDG Corporation de développement économique
communautaire CDN/NDG
o CLE CDN Centre local d’emploi de Côte-des-Neiges
o CJE CDN Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Côte-des-Neiges
o CJE NDG Carrefour jeunesse-emploi Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
o COHO * Coalition des organisations hassidiques d’Outremont
o CRE CDN Centre de recherche d’emploi de Côte-des-Neiges
o JEM Jewish Employment Montreal
o PROMIS
o Service Canada *
o MICC *
* = observer status only
Click on
any of the logos below to view a pop-up containingcontact information
and url for each member:
cdeccdnndg.org