Accreditation Assistance Access Centre™ Services

One to One Interviews
The Accreditation Assistance Access Centre™ facilitators conduct individualized research that specifically addresses our clients’ accreditation goals. This research and its conclusions are then communicated to our clients in a confidential one to one session.

Comprehensive Individual Action Plan
The Accreditation Assistance Access Centre™ facilitators conduct individualized research pertaining to our clients’ goals. They lead clients through a process of interview and advisement: they analyze needs, develop a pathway to achieve goals and provide our clients with a documented comprehensive individual action plan.

Alternative Career Options
The AAAC promotes alternative career choices within the client’s chosen field, utilizing his/her transferable skills, knowledge and previous work experience. This enables new immigrants to spend less time in survival jobs. This requires a collective effort that is supported by partnerships, including those with employers, education and service providers such as immigrant serving organizations and government.

Cross Cultural Advice
Our facilitators aim to remove cultural roadblocks to accreditation, education and employment. We help you, our client, define your educational and career goals, and support you in building your confidence, self-esteem and motivation to learn and succeed.

Portfolio Development
Our experts will assist you in developing your accreditation portfolio, which is intended to identify your strengths and promote the recognition of your foreign credentials and international achievements.

Both a process and a tool, the accreditation portfolio is designed to address the needs of regulatory bodies and is consistent with the concepts of Prior Learning and Recognition (PLAR).

The Accreditation Assistance Access Centre™ offers workshops to internationally trained professionals and trades people, free of charge. Call us to book an appointment.

Certified Portfolio Advisors
AAAC facilitators are Certified Portfolio Advisors. This certification benefits you, our client, as it ensures that your portfolio is organized succinctly and contains substantive information, positively differentiating yours from other portfolios.

Prior Learning and Recognition (PLAR)
Human Resources and Skills Development, Canada (HRSDC) defines Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) as "the process of identifying, assessing and recognizing skills, knowledge, or competencies that have been acquired through work experience, unrecognized training, independent study, volunteer activities, and hobbies.  PLA may be applied toward academic credit, toward requirement of a training program, or for occupational certification".

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) help clients to work directly with occupational and regulatory bodies, professional associations, universities, and subject matter experts in assessing, validating and documenting prior learning.

AAAC facilitators are certified as PLAR Practitioners by the Loyalist College and the First Nations Training Institute, which are both recognized as world leaders in PLAR training. This certification ascertains that our facilitators not only understand educational qualifications from across the world but can relate with experiential learning acquired anywhere in the world; we help our clients to articulate this knowledge accurately through a step-by-step Portfolio Development process. 

Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) Pilot Project
The AAAC is working closely with the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors within the framework of a pilot project. Within this context, facilitators assist foreign trained candidates to demonstrate that they possess the competencies required to obtain a license from AOLS. This is achieved by recognizing their learning from life and their work experience, assessing their transferable skills and helping them in portfolio development for competency matching. The pilot project is intended to assist newcomers in having their credentials recognized, receiving their professional Land Surveyor license and being employed in the field.