Customer Service Charter
The Centre strives to be one of the most effective career and workforce development centres in Canada by offering the highest accessible services to meet current and emerging market needs. We help people at all stages of life get on a path to career success—from youth just starting out to older workers who have been laid-off; from newcomers to Canada who need to improve their workplace English, to people interested in the trades who need to build their technical skills; and from small business owners looking to hire staff, to large companies who need help developing and transitioning their workforce.
At The Centre, we believe in and are dedicated to providing high-quality service to you, the client, through all our departments: Corporate Development Services & Special Projects, Employment Services, Languages & Newcomer Services, and Skilled Trades.
When you meet with Centre staff, we promise to:
- Be professional, respectful, fair and honest
- Be focused on meeting your employment, training, recruitment, and language goals to the best of our ability
- Offer you access to services, resources, and information that are designed around best practices in our field
- Provide the best service possible to meet the needs of all individuals, regardless of cultural background, ability, religion, sexual orientation, or marital status
- Collect and use any information you provide us with in accordance with the Personal Information and Privacy Information Documents Act (PIPEDA) policy.
Complaint and Resolution Process
We encourage your feedback—compliments and complaints. If you have feedback for us about your experience here at The Centre, please let us know by calling 1-888-315-5521 or emailing info@thecentre.on.ca. We will respond to your suggestions within three (3) business days.
Contact and Facility Information
The Centre operates out of seven locations in Halton Region and Mississauga. For a full listing of our sites and what programs and services can be accessed at each one, visit the Locations page on our website.
Accessible Customer Service
The Centre for Skills Development and Training is committed to the independence and integration of persons with disabilities and all who work, learn and visit our facilities.
1. The Centre will make every reasonable effort to ensure that services and programs are
accessible by:
a) encouraging the use of personal assistive devices to access our services and programs
b) encouraging the inclusion and access of support persons accompanying people with disabilities
c) waiving fees for support persons assisting clients and when fees are required providing advance notification
d) permitting service animals to assist clients and provide alternative accommodation when an animal is disallowed under the law
2. The Centre will make every effort to communicate with clients in a manner that
enables the use of services and programs by providing:
a) reasonable notification of all interruptions that especially relate to the provision of services and program for people with disabilities
b) the Accessible Customer Service Standard Policy and, upon request, making it available in alternative formats
c) a feedback, response and tasking process that enables increased integration of users and accessibility of goods and services
d) information on the provision of customer service for people with disabilities and accessible services and programs
3. The Centre provides training on how to provide customer service to people with disabilities, to:
a) those who participate in developing policies and procedures on the provision of service to the public
b) every person who deals with the public on behalf of The Centre
c) new workers who deal with the public on behalf of The Centre
Alternative Formats
If you require information or a document in an alternative format, The Centre will make every effort to accommodate your request in a reasonable timeframe.
Please submit your request by calling 905-333-3499 (toll free 1-888-315-5521) or by emailing us at info@thecentre.on.ca.
Accessible Customer Service Feedback Form
The Centre for Skills Development & Training strives to deliver its services in an accessible manner so everyone can benefit, and we want to make sure we are achieving this goal. Have you recently accessed services at The Centre? If so, is there something we could have done better? Please click the following link to send us your feedback: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JCGCVCY
For information about what we do with your information, please read The Centre’s Privacy Policy, available here: http://thecentre.on.ca/privacy-policy
