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Discover how Blueprint’s projects are shaping better policies, programs, and systems by testing new ideas, generating evidence, and scaling proven solutions for social impact.
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Reimagining Career Services

Testing new models to serve the career services system—unemployed individuals with complex barriers, mid-career workers navigating transitions, SMEs addressing recruitment and retention, and practitioners who guide Canadians through disruption.
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Practitioner Data Initiative

Building data capacity to help skills organizations serve Canadians more effectively
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Scaling to Meet the Needs of Canadians

Creating a robust evidence approach to scale promising skills development interventions
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Breaking Down Barriers to Skills for Success Training

Designing practical pathways to help mid-career workers build foundational and transferable skills for a changing economy.
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Results for Canada

Making long-term outcomes measurement more accessible to nonprofit service organizations
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Leveraging Government Data

Developing a benchmarking model to help organizations assess results and make better program decisions.
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Futureproofing the Community Service Workforce

Unlocking the non-profit sector’s digital potential to strengthen community services
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Building youth resilience and well-being

Using evidence to inform the City of Toronto’s programming for vulnerable young people
Children, Youth, and Families
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Building Inclusive Cybersecurity Talent Pathways

Expanding and diversifying Canada's cybersecurity talent.
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Strengthening employment interventions for newcomer youth

We conducted a series of workshops with newcomer youth and service providers to better understand newcomer youth employment experience in the GTA.
Children, Youth, and Families
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Analyzing gender, skills development programs, and labour mobility

Using analytics to test the value of training for women
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Assessing the feasibility of a large-scale social-emotional skills assessment in Canada

A large-sample Canadian SES survey would break new ground in the skills development sector
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Career Pathways demonstration project

Testing a training model to help individuals progress in their careers
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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An evidence generation approach for the Community Healing Project

Testing an innovative model to increase resiliency in youth
Community Safety and Justice
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Contextualized Essential Skills demonstration project

Testing essential skills training for frontline workers in hospitality and retail
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Generating evidence to support A Way Home’s Impact

Assessing the impact of strategic efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness
Housing Access and Stability
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Designing an evaluation of Ontario’s Community Justice Centres

Assessing an innovative model to improve community safety and access to justice
Community Safety and Justice
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Building evidence for an employment assessment tool

Strengthening a tool to assess service needs of jobseekers
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Integrating essential skills and employment services in British Columbia

Testing integrated essential skills services with employment service providers
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Testing the impact of IT training for youth

Generating evidence about NPower Canada’s programs to support scaling
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Designing a portable housing benefit

Rethinking solutions to housing unaffordability
Housing Access and Stability
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Enhancing Manitoba’s employment services

Increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of service for jobseekers and employers
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Rapid response in times of disruption

Supporting workers in hospitality affected by COVID-19
Employment, Economic Integration, and Income Security
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Towards a better understanding of NEET youth in Ontario

Helping governments understand the human and fiscal costs of youth disconnection, and where targeted investments can deliver the greatest public value
Children, Youth, and Families
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Informing the future of the Canadian Housing Policy

Studying the effectiveness of the National Housing Strategy in addressing core housing needs and homelessness
Housing Access and Stability
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