About Us
The Career Development Professional Centre initiative is a virtual hub where professionals working in the sector can engage in community learning and foundational training and come together to amplify the importance of the career development profession to the health and well-being of people, communities, and Canada.
The Canadian Career Development Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on advancing career development in Canada, leads the centre in partnership with MixtMode Consulting.
Canadian Career Development Foundation
CCDF is an internationally renowned organization with proven expertise in the field of career development. CCDF is a non-profit, project-based organization with a national Board of Governors, expert staff, and a global network of specialist Associates.
Incorporated in 1980, CCDF is a recognized leader in the areas of:
- Research: Creating a rigorous evidence-base for career and employment services to inform and strengthen policy and practice;
- Resource Development: Creating leading edge career programs, products, and tools that respond to client, practitioner and employer realities and priorities;
- Training: Developing and delivering accredited training to strengthen practitioners’ competence and promote innovation and excellence in practice;
- Service Capacity Building: Working with diverse partners to integrate career, community, economic and workforce development and to promote a strong service ecosystem; and
- Policy Consultation: Creating sustainable policy solutions that are informed by practice and research and aligned with the realities of the emergent labour market.
CCDF conducts projects that:
- Prepare youth and adults distant from the labour market to enter the workforce, manage ongoing learning and successfully navigate career transitions;
- Build the capacity of workers to manage their careers skillfully;
- Address the barriers that impede under-represented groups from accessing and succeeding in learning and work opportunities;
- Assist employers to create quality workplaces that maximize worker satisfaction and productivity;
- Reintegrate adults entering or re-entering education/training or employment;
- Help older workers to transition to alternative avenues for work, learning and/or community engagement.
CCDF leverages career development to enable Canadians to manage learning and work, acquire and enhance skills, seek/create employment, and access community services in an increasingly complex, interdependent, and changing world. Through this work, CCDF promotes positive health, social and economic outcomes for individuals, institutions, and communities. CCDF is proud to be leading the CDPC initiative.