Health Force Ontario – A Type of Matchmaking
Canada is a country that thrives on immigration. So there are systems in place to help immigrants move into their new lives in Canada as easily as possible. In fact, new changes in immigration processes (some of them controversial) allow skilled and highly educated immigrants to be “fast-tracked” into Canada to fill specific labour vacancies. Many of the 50-or-so designated occupations are in health fields.
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This is where Health Force Ontario comes in. It is an agency whose role is, as Citizenship and Immigration minister Chris Alexander puts it, “matchmaker” to the health needs of Canadians and foreign-educated health workers who wish to come to Canada, to Ontario in particular.
Health Force Ontario “ensure[s] that Ontarians have access to the right number and mix of qualified health-care providers, when and where they are needed, now and in the future”.
On the other end, it executes the strategy by certifying the highly trained people who can fill these health care jobs, and who want to be in Canada.
The requirements for and process of certification can be confusing. If you are an internationally educated health professional, and would like to learn more about how to smooth the path to professional practice, come and see what the Access Centre for Internationally Educated Health Professionals may have to help.
North York Central Library is hosting a session with a representative from Health Force Ontario/Access:
Are You an Internationally Educated Health Professional?
Tues. September 15, 2015
2:00 to 3:00 pm
North York Central Library
5120 Yonge Street
Toronto M2N 5N9
Room 2/3 (2nd floor, west side of atrium)
To register, please call 416-395-5649
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