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Talent City Vaughan Grant Recipient Profile – Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women
Talent City Vaughan is a first-of-its-kind municipal workforce development initiative that supports purpose-driven training initiatives across Vaughan. The 2025 cohort of grant recipients offers a host of in-demand training programs for Vaughan residents and employees of Vaughan-based businesses – like Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women’s Interpreter Training and ILSAT Test Preparation!
The Program
EHCW’s training Program offers bilingual participants 100 hours of hands-on interpreter training, equipping them with the practical skills and professional knowledge needed to succeed in the field and also prepare them for the ILSAT language test. Participants will develop the competencies required to become employable, achieve professional certification, gain confidence in real-world interpretation settings, and be better prepared to serve diverse communities with high standards of professionalism and cultural sensitivity.
Participants will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and certifications to deliver exceptional interpretation services in Vaughan.
The program supports local workforce development by helping bilingual individuals leverage their existing language skills to become employable and confidently enter the interpretation profession.
About Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women
Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women is a three times accredited, charitable non-profit organization established in 1992 to empower women, immigrants and newcomer, seniors, youth, and families through advocacy and services focused on promoting healthy families, community relationships and economic self-sufficiency. EHCW meets the growing needs of the culturally diversified communities through its leadership in innovative and collaborative programs.
RivInt is an award-winning social enterprise operated by EHCW, that has been providing outstanding language services since January 2001. All profits generated from RivInt goes directly into its managing organization, EHCW, to support services including: domestic abuse counseling, settlement services, as well as women, youth, and seniors’ programs to maintain their mental, physical health and overall wellness.