Deadline: 7-Feb-22
The Government of Canada has announced the 2022-23 First Nations and Inuit Summer Work Experience Program to provide youth with summer employment opportunities where they can gain work experience and develop important skills such as communication, problem-solving and teamwork.
Objectives
The objectives of the program are:
- to help youth acquire skills by providing organizations with wage subsidies for their summer work experience
- to assist First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students prepare for the labour market by enabling them to obtain employment experience
- to help students acquire employability skills
- to support them in financing and furthering their education
- to provide students with career and labour market information and assistance in finding summer or short-term employment
Projects under the First Nations and Inuit Summer Work Experience Program allow youth to learn about career options and earn an income that may contribute to a university or college education.
Successful proposals
- include plans to offer wage subsidies to private sector and non-profit employers so they may hire eligible First Nations and Inuit youth
- help First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students obtain summer employment and prepare for entry into the labour market
- enable First Nations and Inuit youth to earn wages
The proposals will support work experience opportunities for First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students between May 1 and the beginning of the student’s fall academic term.
Funding Information
- All employers are eligible to apply for 100% of the wage when a participant with disabilities is hired. A maximum contribution of $3,000 per participant may be available, on an actual cost basis, for special equipment and facilities to accommodate the student’s needs.
- The activities will support work experience opportunities for First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students, between May 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible recipients are:
- First Nations and Inuit communities
- First Nations and Inuit governments
- First Nations and Inuit organizations
- Not-for-profit associations
- Private sector employers
- Successful recipients may offer employment opportunities for youth directly or enter into agreements with private sector and non-profit sector employers to access employment opportunities for youth.
- Eligible youth participants
- Proposals must provide summer employment for First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students aged 15 to 30 who are ordinarily resident on reserve, in recognized communities or on community lands.
- Ordinarily resident on reserve means that eligible youth:
- live on reserve
- do not maintain a primary residence off reserve
- may be temporarily off reserve for the primary purpose of seeking education.
For more information, visit https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100033610/1533125433575