First Nations & Inuit Youth Employment Strategies

Within this strategy there are four youth programs:  Youth Work Experience, Career Promotions & Awareness, Science and Technology, and the Student Summer Employment Opportunities.


Youth Work Experience

• Supports the provision of opportunities for mentored work experience.
• Exposes youth to various career options.
• Promotes the benefits of education as being key to labor market participation.

Career Promotion and Awareness

• Cooperative Education-supports provisions for mentored school-based work and study opportunities.
• Career planning.
• Life and work skill development

Science and Technology

• Promotes science and technology as an educational/career choice
• Encourages the enhancement of traditional knowledge (where applicable)

Student and Summer Employment Opportunities

• Support skills acquisition through provision of wage subsidies for short term work experience
• Assists secondary and post-secondary students to prepare for future entry into the labor market to access summer employment.