Career Focus offers youth a range of work experience, learning and skill-building activities to help them choose careers and encourage them to pursue advanced studies.

The program offers post-secondary graduates activities that respond to their needs, including workshops and seminars on advanced employment skills, coaching support and mentoring opportunities. These activities will:

  • Help post-secondary graduates acquire advanced employment skills, such as project management, entrepreneurial and leadership skills; and
  • Help youth and future employers by ensuring that the young person’s skills and experience respond to emerging opportunities in the global marketplace.

Skills Link:

Skills Link offers a range of programs and services that can be tailored to meet individual needs and provide more intensive assistance over longer periods of time.

Through Skills Link:

  • Advisors help youth assess their needs and develop an employment action plan by choosing a series of activities from available programs and services;
  • These activities can be tailored to meet individual employment needs and career goals;

Youth then work through their action plan until they find a job or return to school.

Summer Work Experience:

  • creates jobs that would not otherwise be created;
  • helps students who need it the most because of where they live and/or other barriers; and,
  • provides high-quality, career-related summer jobs.
11. Funding Mechanisms Please describe the type of funding mechanism used for this initiative (e.g. provider’s own budget, service contract, grant, co-funding etc.)

Each YES program has separate funding mechanisms:

Career Focus: recipients are funded by contribution agreements. There is no maximum contribution per recipient. The amount of the contribution is determined by the number of eligible participants who participate or are to be served.

Skills Link: recipients are funded by contribution agreements. There is no maximum contribution per recipient. The amount of the contribution is determined by the number of eligible participants who participate or are to be served.