History of the Canadian Training Institute
Charitable Registration Number 0679290-59-13
Year established: 1983
Incorporation Granted: April 12, 1984
During the 1970's, a general movement toward de-institutionalization created many small,
community based residential programs for clients in corrections, mental health, physically
disabled, domestic violence, etc. While this brought clients closer to the community, there
was a general lack of training for staff and volunteers in these programs.
Beginning with volunteers in the corrections community, John Sawdon, the founding Executive
Director, sought to address this problem through establishing a national voluntary agency that
could provide training for and support networking among community based residential programs.
Affiliates/Membership
CTI Provincial Training Committees
6 Provincial Training Committees
4 Sub Committees within the Provinces
No. of Members:
Note: members are individuals who volunteer their time on provincial training committees as follows:
| Provincial Locations | Committees | Members |
| British Columbia | 1 | 5 |
| Alberta | 2 | 9 |
| Manitoba | 1 | 4 |
| Ontario | 1 | 10 |
| Quebec | 0 | 2 |
| Nova Scotia | 1 | 3 |
| Newfoundland | 1 | 5 |
Currently working with a group in Saskatchewan
These committees have facilitated the delivery of training to over 5,000 participants since 1983
Composition of National Office
- Volunteers Board of Directors: 11
- Volunteers on other Committees: 5
- Number of Employees: 2 Full-time, 2 Part-time
- Part-time trainers on per diem basis: 18
- Trainer capacity through activity specific contracts:
British Columbia: 4 Ontario: 11
Alberta: 2 Quebec: 1
Newfoundland: 1
Five Year Review of Training Delivered
- 1988/90 41 Workshops Delivered
- 1989/90 34 Workshops Delivered
- 1990/91 43 Workshops Delivered
- 1991/92 57 Workshops Delivered
- 1992/93 40 Workshops Delivered
- 1993/94 57 Training programs and organizational development workshops which involved 1,062 participants for a total of 2,060 training days.
