Searching for Self-Employment / Entrepreneurship

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Supports young entrepreneurs in business start-up
Provides various resources for youth interested in starting a business, including:

• Summer Company
• Futurpreneur
• Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation

Provides resources to assist community members in seeking employment and educational opportunities

Services provided can include:

• Assistance in job searches and researching job ads
• Computer use and assistance to update resumés and write cover letters
• Employment counselling in various areas including preparing for interviews
• Information about other programs

Offers access to the following job search tools:

• Access to Service Canada Job bank website
• Community Placement Program (for volunteer opportunities)
• Computer and Internet access
• Fax machine, phone and photocopier

• Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community
• Provides services through guidance and partnership with Waubetek Business Development Corporation (WBDC)
• Provides information, training and educational workshops to enhance employability skills
• Posts employment opportunities in Band office
• Works to access funding for Band-owned business ventures
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
• Maintains updated statistics regarding population trends, employment, skills and the community profile

Economic initiatives and on-going projects for Sheguiandah First Nation (SFN) include but not limited to:

• Ongoing construction of an archaeological interpretive centre
• Wind projects (SFN is one of the partners of Northland Power's Mclean's Mountain windfarm through a company called Mnidoo Mnising Power)
• Involved with United Chiefs & Councils of Mnidoo Mnising (UCCMM) Tribal Council claim on lake beds and bottoms
• Land claim ongoing in French River area on territorial lands
• Engaged in talks with Wikwemikong FN about land title on Heywood Island
• Commercial fishing project (started in 2012)
• Purchase of a 150-acre farm property at corner of Hwy 6 and Indian Mountain Rd
• Assistance with the opening of a new Resource Centre located in former Band Council Chambers room
• Architectural drawings for an elders and youth centre; provincial funding announced Feb 2017 from the Aboriginal Community Capital Grants Program (ACCGP) and the Aboriginal Economic Development Fund(AEDF) for this project

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment training, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community

• Provides services through the guidance and partnership with Waubetek Business Development Corporation
• Works to generate and maintain permanent employment for individuals through the creation and support of self-employment initiatives and economic-based community projects
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
• Maintains local business directory
• Assists with planning annual events such as Annual Pow Wow
• Provides assistance in the development of plans for the use of traditional lands for community members

Initiatives Henvey Inlet First Nation (HIFN) is currently involved with include but are not limited to:

• Partnership with Bekanon Lease Management Corporation to manage the leased lands
• Ownership and management of Pickerel Contracting Ltd which works to meet the housing needs of the community
• Operation of Henvey Inlet Wind (owned by HIFN's Nigig Power Corporation) which has partnered with private company, Pattern Energy Group, to build a 300-megawatt wind farm on community land; currently working on a transmission line plan from HIFN to tap into the existing Hydro One line with projected construction to begin winter 2017; harnessed power will eventually be sold to the grid; Wind Farm operational Oct 2019
• Forest management
• Aggregate (gravel) and pit operations

Delivers the following programs:

• Commercial Loans as a Community Futures Development Corporation and an Aboriginal Financial Institution
• Business counselling and support to individuals and communities in the areas of:
  • Access to financing
  • Business
  • Community development
  • Joint venture development
  • Proposal development

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Youth Job Connection

• Offers paid pre-employment training, job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• Also provides mentorship and education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

Provides summer job opportunities and part-time job placements during the year

• Responsible for stimulating local economy and developing economic initiatives and opportunities for the community
• Provides services through guidance and partnership with Waubetek Business Development Corporation
• Works to generate and maintain permanent employment for individuals through the creation and support of self-employment initiatives and economic-based community projects
• Works to access funding for band-owned business ventures
• Provides coaching in areas such as business plan development and assistance in obtaining financial support for people wanting to start own business
• Maintains local business directory
• Assisted with completion of Comprehensive Community Plan approved in April 2014 which provides a framework for economic development

Economic initiatives (current and proposed) Atikameksheng Anishnawbek is involved with include but are not limited to:

• Bingo Hall as an initiative/project
• Business Park
• Gravel Pit and Quarry
• Eco Lodge and Camps
• Outdoor amphitheatre
• Atikameksheng Anishnawbek 250 kW Solar Park Project
• Signed agreement in Sept 2014 known as Victoria Mine Advanced Exploration Agreement with KGHM Int'l Ltd/FNX which enables the mining company to carry out exploration on traditional territory

• Provides business planning and consultations to individuals who have an existing business or those interested in starting their own
• Offers access to a resource library and business directory

Consultations include information on:

• Analyzing business competition
• Locating suppliers and manufacturers
• Reviewing business plans

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

Functions as a regional development organization
Delivers three key programs in Northern Ontario:
Northern Ontario Development Program

• Assists with community economic development, business growth and competitiveness, and innovation activities, resulting in long-term benefits for local communities
• Provides repayable and non-repayable contributions to non profit organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises
• Priorities include:
  • Community Economic Development
  • Business Growth and Competitiveness
  • Innovation

Community Futures Program

• Supports 24 Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) in Northern Ontario, providing an array of business and counselling services, as well as financial assistance to not-for-profit corporations and small and medium-sized businesses in Northern Ontario

Economic Development Initiative

• Provides support to Francophone communities for their economic development projects

• Provides comprehensive employment and job search services
• Offers assessment of skills, interests and experience
• Provides job search strategies, including resume preparation
• Offers information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• Coordinates on-the-job training, work experience
• Offers help in maintaining employment
• Provides information and referral to other employment and community services

Second Career Program

• Provides skills training and financial support for laid-off workers

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Canada-Ontario Job Grant

• Provides financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
• Assistance available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees

• Oversees the operations and maintenance of community infrastructure and related services
• Maintains a public works garage

Performs a variety of tasks and maintenance operations including:

• Road maintenance including culverts
• Brushing of road sides
• Landscaping and community beautification
• Street lighting
• Maintenance of equipment and operation of the water treatment plant and sewage treatment plant
• Distribution of water to rural areas
• Water mains and storm sewers
• Upkeep of parks and playgrounds
• Snow removal

Capital Planning

• Provides assistance in project management services and community development and planning