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Learn about policing in Toronto at upcoming community sessions Registration for the fall session of the Toronto Police Service’s Community Police Academy is now officially open. The eight-week course, designed to inform members
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An Ontario government grant is enabling an Etobicoke notfor-profit agency reporting an ever-growing need for settlement services to help even more newcomers. JobStart’s $130,000 grant will enable its settlement counsellor to support approximately 800 newcomers and 1,800 one-onone sessions over the next two years. JobStart has helped approximately 1,500 newcomer clients, mostly families, since the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration first funded its newcomer settlement program in 2013. “We’re so grateful to the ministry and so thrilled that this funding will enable us to continue to provide newcomer settlement services. It is definitely a growing need,” said JobStart executive director Heather Sant. “Settlement services are critical. We’d love to be able to expand our services because there is such a need.” >>>services, page 9
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of the public about all-things policing, will be held at the Toronto Police College, 70 Birmingham St. (near Islington Avenue/Lake Shore Blvd. West), every Saturday from Oct. 22 to
Dec. 10. For the first time, the Toronto Police Service has par tnered with Humber College to offer credits upon successful completion of the
Community Police Academy. Graduates will be reco g n i z e d by C h i e f M a r k Saunders and will be eligible for transfer credits toward Humber’s Community Policing
Certificate. For more information about the Academy, including a link to the registration form, go to www.torontopolice.on.ca/ police-academy/
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