• 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

• Assists Aboriginal individuals prepare for, obtain, and keep jobs
• Offers employment and training programs
• Matches eligible clients with employers
• Provides employment and training opportunities to Aboriginal clients who are not eligible through First Nation, Inuit, or Métis agreements

Employment and Training Program Interventions
Provides financial assistance for the following programs:

• Apprenticeship skills training
• Career experience/job shadowing
• Community capacity building
• Cultural industries
• Employment supports
• Income supports
• Labour market partnerships
• Mobility assistance
• On-the-job training
• Purchase of training
• Self-employment assistance
• Skills enhancement
• Special initiatives
• Targeted wage subsidies

Responsible for the delivery of training and employment funds and programs to the member First Nation communities

• Operates as a department within the Wabun Development Corporation and under the Aboriginal Human Resources Development agreement
• Helps Aboriginal people prepare for and find high-demand jobs quickly, as well as keep them in the long term
• Fosters partnerships with the private sector and the provinces and territories
• Supports demand-driven skills development

Programs and services include:

• Skills development
• Training for high-demand jobs
• Job finding
• Programs for youth
• Programs for urban and Indigenous people with disabilities
• Access to child care

Operates as a program under the Education and Training Branch
Provides a range of culturally appropriate programs and services for Métis people to enhance employability and related skills including:

• Apprenticeship support (financial and training assistance)
• Career counselling
• Employment readiness support and training
• Financial support/wage subsidies and opportunity through a number of programs which may vary by office locations; programs are listed on website
• Mobility assistance
• Self-employment coaching assistance such as business plan and accounting information and access to computers, photocopiers and other equipment
• Services for clients with disabilities

Operates as a program under the Education and Training Branch

• Provides additional educational and training opportunities in specific areas and sectors that offer current or future employment
• Delivers Labour Market Projects in areas as needed including apprenticeships, tourism and hospitality, energy, housing and mining
• Conducts ongoing research for future employment and training opportunities

• 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

Youth Job Connection

• Provides services for youth 15-29 years who experience multiple barriers to employment, including:
  • paid pre-employment training
  • job matching and paid job placements
  • placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
  • mentorship
  • education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

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

• Provides support to individuals with an intellectual and/or developmental disability to find full-time and part-time employment
• Explores options with the individual to determine abilities as well as preferences
• Assists employers in accessing available wage subsidies
• Provides recruitment, job searching services, job analysis, on-the-job training and job support
• Continues to provide support as required to the employer/co-workers, as well as to the new employee once the training is complete
• Maintains regular visits to the job site to evaluate the employee's performance and to discuss any concerns or any new job skills that may be needed

This organization is a Registered Charity

• 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

Youth Job Connection

• Provides services for youth 15-29 years who experience multiple barriers to employment, including:
  • paid pre-employment training
  • job matching and paid job placements
  • placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
  • mentorship
  • education and work transitions supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

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

Provides training and supports to enable individuals with an intellectual disability to secure paid part-time or full-time employment

• Provides recruitment, job searching services, job analysis, employment training and on the job coaching for the duration of time it takes the individual to learn the job-specific skills
• Assists employers in accessing available wage subsidies to help with their salary costs
• Tailors on-going training and supports for the length of the secured employment to meet the needs of the individual as well as the new employer

• 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

• Assists Aboriginal individuals to prepare for, obtain and keep jobs
• Offers the Career Cruising online career guidance and planning system

Employment Services

• Offers employment counselling
• Provides job information
• Offers resume/cover letter assistance

Employment and Training Program InterventionsProvides financial assistance for the following programs:

• Apprenticeship skills training
• Career experience/job shadowing
• Community capacity building
• Employment supports
• Income supports
• Mobility assistance
• On-the-job training
• Purchase of training
• Self-employment assistance
• Targeted wage subsidies

Youth-Specific Interventions

• Stay in School Program
• Student Career Program
• Summer Career Placement
• Youth Internships

Provides employment and training opportunities to communities

• Administers accredited Post-Secondary Courses in partnership with various colleges
• Offers pre-apprenticeship courses and training programs as related to employment opportunities with industries such as mining and natural resources
• Provides courses that align with the Impact Benefits Agreements (IBA) developed with organizations conducting mining and natural resource development in the area

Also provides:

• Office and classroom space for rent by the hour, half day or full day for meetings, workshops and conferences
• Gymnasium rental with special rates for non-profit groups or Taykwa Tagamou members
• Postings of job opportunities from partners, local businesses and proponents in the growing mining and natural resource sectors