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Career Development Practitioner Certification in Canada: The Road to Formal Recognition

Discover the process and benefits of becoming a certified career development practitioner in Canada. Explore the Canadian Standards & Guidelines, professional associations, and the importance of certification. Learn about the requirements for certification and how it can enhance your career.

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Career Development Practitioner Certification in Canada: The Road to Formal Recognition

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  1. Career Development Practitioner Certification in Canada The Road to Formal Recognition CANNEXUS 2012

  2. The Career Development Sector: Coming of Age • Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners (S & Gs) • Career Development Associations in Canada • Career Practitioner Certification in Canada & Internationally • Canadian Council of Career Development Associations (CCCDA)

  3. Canadian Standards & Guidelines (S & Gs) • The competencies (knowledge, skills & attitudes) career practitioners need in order to practice effectively and ethically • Initiated in 1996 and built on the basis of extensive consultation with the career development community • Launched in 2001; Revisions in 2004 and 2011 • Basis for development of practitioner training , job descriptions, and certification in Canada • Basis for international competency framework underpinning EVGP certification www.career-dev-guidelines.org

  4. Professional Associations for Career Practitioners in Canada • Newfoundland & Labrador Association for Career Practitioners (http://nlacp.com/) • Nova Scotia Career Development Association (http://www.nscda.ca/) • PEI Career Development Association (http://www.peicda.ca/) • New Brunswick Career Development Action Group (http://www.nbcdag-gadcnb.ca/)

  5. Professional Associations for Career Practitioners in Canada • Ontario Alliance of Career Development Practitioners • L’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec (http://www.occoppq.qc.ca/) • Career Development Association of Alberta/NWT (http://www.careerdevelopment.ab.ca/) • BC Career Development Association (http://www.bccda.org/)

  6. More to come! • Saskatchewan – has Steering Committee in place • Manitoba • Nunavut • Yukon

  7. Pan-Canadian Mapping Study 2009 • Sample size: 853 practitioners; 252 managers; 34% of sample from Ontario • Top priority issues selected from list of 15: • Access to professional training (non-credit) • Certification or licensing processes • Access to professional training (credit-undergraduate and graduate)

  8. Importance of Professional Certification or Licensing • Very important 70% • Somewhat important 24% • Not important 6% www.ccdf.ca

  9. Certification in Canada • Provincial licencing of Career Counsellors – Québec • Voluntary certification for Career Development Practitioners through CDAA and BCCDA • Voluntary certification for Career Development Practitioners emerging in NS… and discussions underway in Ontario, New Brunswick and elsewhere

  10. CCCDA • A national coalition of provincial/territorial associations/organizations • Serving as a national focal point and advocacy voice for our field • Promoting provincial/territorial collaboration on common issues such as certification, training, practitioner mobility, quality service and building our evidence-base • Members are associations/organizations (not individuals)

  11. CCCDA • Connecting provincial/territorial associations and organizations to each other and to national and international leadership initiatives • Promoting clarity and professional identity • Offering access to timely information on training, certification, research, practice and policy • Promoting the sharing of promising/innovative practices • Contributing to building our capacity to influence, advocate and offer excellence

  12. CCCDA – First Priorities • Fear that we could end up with multiple standards and certifications – and that would be no further ahead than before the S & Gs • Therefore, CCCDA’s first priorities are to: • Provide a mechanism to keep the S & Gs current and vital – and serving as a basis for the development of practitioner training , job descriptions, and certification; and • Promote communication/collaboration across provinces/territories and serve as a national hub of professional information regarding certification & training Not a cookie-cutter approach, but a consistent approach based on common standards and a strong professional identity

  13. British Columbia Career Development Association: Certified Career Development Practitioner (CCDP) In order to be eligible for certification, applicants must satisfy the following 4 conditions: • Work Experience & Education • Minimum of 5 years related work experience (including 2 years within the past 5 years) OR • Masters Degree in related field with at least 1 year of related work experience, Bachelors Degree in a related field with at least 2 years of related work experience, Diploma in Career Development with at least 3 years of related work experience or Certificate in Career Development with at least 4 years of related work experience • S & Gs Competencies • Must provide evidence (according to suggested methodologies) that all Core Competencies and three (3) Areas of Specialization have been met

  14. British Columbia Career Development Association: Certified Career Development Practitioner (CCDP) • Professional Association • Must provide proof of individual membership in a Canadian professional association with opportunities for professional development and a code of ethics • Mandatory Courses • Must complete course in Ethics and Professional Conduct (10 hours) Certification is voluntary, managed by BCCDA and certification is not a condition of membership. For more information: http://www.bccda.org/cert-criteria.cfm

  15. Career Development Association of Alberta: Certified Career Development Practitioner (CCDP) • Launched in 2005 • Certification is voluntary and certification is not a condition of membership. • Application for certification is based on: • Education; • Experience; • Demonstration of competencies as outlined in the Canadian Standards and Guidelines for Career Practitioners; • Adherence to the CDAA Code of Ethics; and • Professional references.

  16. Career Development Association of Alberta: Certified Career Development Practitioner (CCDP) • There are 2 pathways to achieving the CCDP designation: • Education (minimum of a certificate in Career Development)plus 3000 hours of work experience in Career Development; or • Employment (minimum of 10 years (7000 hours) work experience in Career Development. • Approximately half of the current CDAA membership has obtained their CCDP designation. • For information about the Certified Career Development Professional designation please visit www.careerdevelopment.ab.ca

  17. Ontario • Steering Group met in March, 2011 and resolved that it would be desirable to explore CDP certification in Ontario – and to begin with the widest possible involvement of stakeholders in consultations and planning. • Over 100 Career Development Practitioners met in June 2011. A vote was taken to see if certification was the direction participants attending the consultation wanted to go. The result was 97% in favour of proceeding! • With that large support, a “Terms of Reference” drafted by the Working Group as a starting point was shared, a nomination and voting process for the Stewardship Group was described, and 23 nominations were accepted from the floor.

  18. Ontario • Participants in the consultation day were invited to vote for members of the Stewardship Group at the end of June and members were elected in July. This elected group has been given responsibility for researching existing certification models and processes, consulting widely with Career Development Practitioners and stakeholders in Ontario and presenting findings and recommendations to the original consultation day members and others who are interested in certification at a future Consultation in the next 2 years. • A meeting of interested CDPs was held in November, focused on the future of OACDP and its potential role in CDP certification in the future. • For more information: mburbank@lehc.ca

  19. L’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec: A Long Way • A school of our own (1941) • First association (1944) • The beginning of a professional identity • Regulated profession (1963) • Reserved title and certification • The Professional Code (1973)

  20. L’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec: A Long Way • A new purpose:  protection of the public • Training, certification, surveillance, discipline • Certification for psychotherapy and Certification for family mediation (1993) • Spreading our scope of practice • The competency profile (2004) • From credentials to competencies • The Assessment Guide (2010)

  21. L’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation duQuébec: New Paths • Reserved activities: The Professional Code’s revision (Bill 21, 2009 to 2012) • Enforcing activity reservation • Sharing Psychotherapy regulation • Grand-parenting • Scope of practice : pertinence, diversity and identity • New fields, new clienteles, new media • The challenges of mobility

  22. L’Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation duQuébec: New Paths • Recognizing competencies for certification • Adjusting for linguistic and cultural gaps in professional identities and practices • Competency development • Regulating or not? • A powerful tool: clinical supervision • Developing a framework • Towards certification for supervisors • For more information: http://www.orientation.qc.ca/LeConseillerOrientation/Admission.aspx?sc_lang=fr-CA

  23. New Brunswick Career Development Action Group • Early stages of consultation • Face-to-face member forum in November 2011 – broad support for the idea, but many questions • Online survey: • 96% in favour of NBCDAG pursuing the exploration of certification • 66% of English respondents and 52% of French respondents said they would apply for certification • Next steps… • Creation of a Stakeholder Certification Committee • Focus groups to gather more input • For more information: http://nbcdag-gadcnben.weebly.com/index.html

  24. Nova Scotia Career Development Association • In 2006, the Nova Scotia Career Development Association (NSCDA) committed to exploring the creation and implementation of voluntary certification for Career Development Practitioners using the Canadian Standards and Guidelines (S & Gs) as its guiding framework. • Following extensive consultations, the voluntary certification committee is exploring potential models, which would be PLAR-based to demonstrate the Core Competencies. This committee is also examining the language used in the S&Gs to ensure that, if a PLAR approach is utilized, competencies would be measurable. Finally, the committee is also developing an inventory of various training programs developed over the past number of years to support development of competencies associated with the S&Gs. • For more information: http://nscda.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=7&Itemid=19

  25. Strong and Growing • Career Development is “coming of age” as a profession in many ways • Current trends…..movements: • Common standards for practitioner competence, service and impact • Protection of the public and professional identity through certification based on standards • Quality training which explicitly reflects standards and supports certification • A solid research foundation to inform practice • A robust evidence base to prove our worth • A strong national identity and voice

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