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New BC Employment Program - ELMS RFP Successful Proponents Announced

The BC Government has announced the results of the RFP process for the new Employment Program of BC to be implemented in April 2012, and have issued a successful proponents list, announcement/press release, Q&A/FAQ, and a Fact Sheet. For links to the information and documents go to the BCCDA Blog and view the related post dated October 20th 2012. ELMS, the department of Employment and Labour Market Services within the Ministry of Social Development, is leading the transformation of BC's employment programs and services, bringing all employment programming under one umbrella program to be run through 73 contracts establishing 'one-stop' Employment Service Centres (ESCs) across the province. Currently there are over 300 contracts directly funded and coordinated by a wide variety of private, non-profit, and educational organizations and other community based training organizations across the province. These organizations worked to form partnerships in order to be able to meet the service and financial capacity required to deliver the new program and bid on the 73 contracts.

The BCCDA has taken a proactive role throughout the ELMS consultation and RFP period, holding information sessions and 'decoding transformation' workshops across the province. We gathered member feedback and conveyed the concerns to the government at their stakeholder meetings and through BC Bid. The association also made a formal submission to ELMS through BC Bid to clarify the issues specific to career practitioners in BC. The letter can be found above. As well the BCCDA had joined with other provincial umbrella groups and associations to discuss the ramifications of the new program and funding model and to jointly convey our concerns over the new model to the BC Government.

Interested stakeholders can stay informed regarding the new model and the government’s initiatives on the ELMS website www.labourmarketservices.gov.bc.ca. Be sure to sign up the RSS Feed or the newsletter on the site and subscribe to the BCCDA’s blog at www.blog.bccda.org.

	Roundtable News Release Association Roundtable Press Release re: New Employment Program of BC
	Roundtable Backgrounder Roundtable Backgrounder on new Employment Program of BC.
	Association umbrella-group submission to ELMS
	BCCDA Submission to ELMS re new program model