Burnett Career Services incorporated in 1997 when Lynda took on a contract with the Cambridge Human Resources Development Canada office to provide workshops for unemployed people in Cambridge. Before incorporation, Lynda practiced on a private, part time basis while also working on contracts with Conestoga College. For several years, she was a human resources management generalist for an international bank, during which time she was responsible for recruitment, career planning and management development, employment equity. Before assuming a career development practitioner role, she taught at Humber College for three years; courses such as: Human Resources Management, Business and Careers, Supervisory Skills. Lynda's credentials include a Bachelor's degree from the University of Guelph and certification as a Career Development Practitioner. She is qualified to administer assessment tools such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, The Strong Interest Inventory, True Colors, and other assessment instruments.
CHCA was founded in 2001 by a Nurse Practitioner who lived on several Northwestern Ontario reserves from 1986-88 (Bearskin, Big Trout, Sachigo, Fort Severn, Angling, and Sandy Lake).After leaving the North she implemented and worked in the Nurse Practitioner role in Southwestern Ontario for eleven years. She did extensive consulting for the College of Nurses of Ontario regarding evaluating and licensing of Nurse Practitioner's.In 1992 she became a clinical preceptor for McMaster Unit verity on the expanded N.P. role. In 1996 she expanded her teaching role to all ten Ontario Universities for the Nurse Practitioner program.She felt obliged to return to the North and in 1997. She returned doing short locums for MSB (Pikangikum, Round Lake, Cat Lake, Sandy Lake, Fort Hope).She became quiet concerned about the staffing shortages. CHCA was started in an attempt to recruit, train and retain expanded role nurses in the North to reduce and/or eliminate the shortages and to lessen the strain on the overworked MSB nurses.
Community Employment Services (CES) located in Woodstock, Ontario is a one stop centre for accessing a variety of employment related programs and services in Oxford County. All of our services are free and confidentiality is assured. Our branch offices in Ingersoll and Norwich plus our itinerate offices in Plattsville, Princeton, Tavistock and Thamesford, help us to extend our services to other geographic areas of Oxford County.
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