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Access to funds for First Nations (status and non-status), Inuit and Métis people through the Apatisiwin Program, from the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres. Services include:
- culturally relevant resources and information
- job search, resume and cover letter assistance, and interview skills
- job matching, placement and incentives
- job / training retention
- Youth Council, work experience, workshops, cultural teachings, access to Elders, Mentoring Program
- youth resume building and job searching
- after hours homework clubs
- holiday and cultural events
- volunteer hours and co-op
- secondary and post-secondary placement opportunities
- Employment Ontario Service Provider (Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development ).
- Urban Aboriginal Employment Service Provider (UAESP) funded through the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
- Aboriginal Skills and Employment Strategy (ASETS)
- Service Canada Apatisiwin
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Services include:
Better Jobs Ontario --Skills training and financial support for laid off workers * training program must demonstrate good job prospects * financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
For employers:
Canada-Ontario Job Grant -- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees. Available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees.
APATISIWIN PROGRAM
The Apatisiwin program offers a variety of employment programs, education, and skills designed to provide opportunities for Indigenous peoples in Ontario to maintain meaningful employment opportunities.
PROGRAMS OFFERED:
- Comprehensive employment and job search services
- Assessment of skills, interests and experience
- Job search strategies, including resumé preparation
- Information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
- On-the-job training, work experience
- Help in maintaining employment
- Information and referral to other employment and community services
Better Jobs Ontario --Skills training and financial support for laid off workers * training program must demonstrate good job prospects * financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
For employers:
Canada-Ontario Job Grant -- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees. Available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees.
APATISIWIN PROGRAM
The Apatisiwin program offers a variety of employment programs, education, and skills designed to provide opportunities for Indigenous peoples in Ontario to maintain meaningful employment opportunities.
PROGRAMS OFFERED:
- Pre-employment training
- Purchase of training
- On the job training
- Training supports
- Apprenticeships
- Self-employment training
- Summer jobs
- Essential Skills
- Basic computer skills and knowledge
- Literacy/numeracy
- General Education Diploma
- Skills upgrading
- Tuition/course fees
- Mandatory training related costs
- Living expenses allowance
- Dependent care allowance
- Living away from home allowance
- Commuting allowance
- Parking costs
- Training course related costs (i.e. books, course kits)
- Business Training
- Business Plan Development
- Professional Advice for Marketing, Accounting and Financial Management
- Capital costs are negotiable
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Employment counsellors work one-on-one with clients to eliminate barriers to long term employment success.
A counsellor will assist all urban Indigenous people in the region, status and non-status Métis, Inuit, and First Nations people with Apatisiwin funding to assist with employment supports and skill development.
Offers Employment Ontario Services and Apatisiwin Services.
A counsellor will assist all urban Indigenous people in the region, status and non-status Métis, Inuit, and First Nations people with Apatisiwin funding to assist with employment supports and skill development.
Offers Employment Ontario Services and Apatisiwin Services.
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- Women's healing group
- Men's healing circles
- Men's drum group
- Youth groups
- Community lunch
- Community clothes closet
- Cultural programming
- Language classes
- Court Support Worker
- Certified Gladue Writer
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- Provides safe, secure, and affordable rent geared-to-income housing for Native people and their families that are in a low or moderate income situation
- Provides tenant support where possible to assist in decreasing hardships and leading to self-sufficiency of individuals and families
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This program connects Indigenous families with understanding and tools for parents to be their best selves in a culturally based setting.
- Food sovereignty
- Medical awareness
- Meal planning
- Cultural guidance
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Court Support Program - helps individuals involved in all five courts (Criminal, Mental Health, Drug, Youth, and Family) of the justice system. Offer advocacy and mediation to ensure First Peoples can better access the justice system and have a range of other supports to assist those wanting to start their healing journey.
Services provided by Dehsahsodre:
Services provided by Dehsahsodre:
- Healing Lodge Intakes/Referrals
- Assistance with Legal Aid
- Filling out Filing Legal Documents
- Referrals to Legal Representation
- Walkthrough of Court Processes
- Understanding Your Charges and What Happens Next
- Knowing Your Rights
- Gladue Principles
- Gladue Letters & Statements
- Gladue Reports
- Traditional Counseling
- Private Gladue Reports (public funder coming soon)
- Status Cards Applications
- Name Change Forms
- Family Custody Issues
- Family Court
- Child Protection
- Family and Children Services Support
- Family and Children Services Visitation Location
- Drop Off Location for Visitations
- Healing Circles
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Eagle Feather Available for Court Hearings
- Information and Training on First people's (FNMI) issues and Legislation for Lawyers, Justices, Crown, and Court Workers.
- Advocacy
- Mental Health supports and referrals
- Addictions support and referrals
- Bail Program (coming soon)
- Diversion Program (coming soon)
- IPC (Indigenous Peoples Court)
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Comprehensive employment and job search services * assessment of skills, interests and experience * job search strategies, including resume preparation * information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities * on-the-job training, work experience * help in maintaining employment * information and referral to other employment and community services
Better Jobs Ontario --Skills training and financial support for laid off workers * training program must demonstrate good job prospects * financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
Services for employers -- help in identifying human resource skills requirements * matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience * support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention
Canada-Ontario Job Grant -- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees * available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees Apatisiwin Program - funding for individuals that identify as Indigenous. (Employment, Training, Education, Self Employment, Summer Jobs, Pre-Career Development, Tech - Mentorship Program)
Better Jobs Ontario --Skills training and financial support for laid off workers * training program must demonstrate good job prospects * financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
Services for employers -- help in identifying human resource skills requirements * matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience * support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention
Canada-Ontario Job Grant -- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees * available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees Apatisiwin Program - funding for individuals that identify as Indigenous. (Employment, Training, Education, Self Employment, Summer Jobs, Pre-Career Development, Tech - Mentorship Program)
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Offers services for aboriginal and non-aboriginal individuals including:
Spirit Bundles: The Spirit Bundles program provides essential items to local Indigenous families during the pandemic.
Wellness and Healing: Provide traditional, spiritual, and cultural healing and wellness activities to the urban Indigenous community, with access to traditional knowledge keepers.
EarlyON: Child-centred, engaging programs and services for all children from birth to six years of age, and their families.
Employment Services: Employment, education, and training services to all eligible Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Indigenous Tech Mentorship and Employment: Mentorship program aims to fill employment gaps in Indigenous representation in the teach sector. This is accomplished by our development of a series of processes and training that can equip an Indigenous participants with the required skills and training to be employable in an entry level position in the tech sector.
Spirit Bundles: The Spirit Bundles program provides essential items to local Indigenous families during the pandemic.
Wellness and Healing: Provide traditional, spiritual, and cultural healing and wellness activities to the urban Indigenous community, with access to traditional knowledge keepers.
EarlyON: Child-centred, engaging programs and services for all children from birth to six years of age, and their families.
Employment Services: Employment, education, and training services to all eligible Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Indigenous Tech Mentorship and Employment: Mentorship program aims to fill employment gaps in Indigenous representation in the teach sector. This is accomplished by our development of a series of processes and training that can equip an Indigenous participants with the required skills and training to be employable in an entry level position in the tech sector.
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Programs:
Services:
- Teachings: Cultural teachings delivered by Knowledge Keeper to provide Indigenous peoples access to traditional knowledge
- Fires: Fire program is open 5 days a week to Indigenous families who seek to gather with their family around a fire.
- Sharing Circles: Offered on a bi-weekly basis dependent on community needs. Sharing Circles provide people with peer support to overcome specific challenges.
- Spirit Building Workshops
Services:
- Counselling
- Referrals
- Cultural Activities
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Employment and training supports * Stay in school incentives
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- Community Lunches
- Ojibwa Language Circle
- Young Women's Hand Drumming
- Wee Ones
- Young Warriors
- All Kwe!
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Offers Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and organizations, who desire to learn and grow together in a good way, culturally responsive learning environments to reflect on identity and practice
- mentoring
- personal development
- educational opportunities
- Indigenous Education Workshop Series
Currently raising funds for:
- Living Monument for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls MMIWG2S+
- Urban Indigenous Foundation of HOPE and PEACE for Wellness
- Mohawk Village Memorial Park
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How to Find - Employment, Apprenticeship, Training and Literacy Programs
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Overview of programs ranging from basic education and literacy to workforce preparation, career training and job search assistance programs, and directs to other related listings in this directory
ADULT LITERACY & BASIC EDUCATION
Reading, writing, speaking, communication, computation and/or problem solving skills:
- for adults who cannot read or write at a functional level) see Adult Literacy Programs here
- to strengthen functional skills in these areas see Adult Basic Education programs here
SECONDARY EDUCATION
Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
- to complete at locations in Halton, see here
PREPARING & TRAINING FOR THE WORKFORCE
Prevocational Training (for people with disabilities, including mental health issues)
Instruction and/or counselling to develop:
- physical and emotional tolerance for work demands and pressures
- personal-social behaviours
- basic manual, academic and communications skills needed to acquire basic job skills
- see Prevocational Training programs here
Career Awareness and Counselling
- Career Awareness (provides information and data about various industries and professions): see here
- Career Counselling (provides information and guidance in evaluating aptitude, abilities and interests, to choose a vocation or career and select the type of training): see here
Vocational Assessment
Tests skills, abilities, interests, personality traits and other attributes for success in different occupational areas or specific positions
- may include programs that allow people to try out jobs for short periods of time to see if there's a 'fit' and, for people with disabilities, determine what supports might be needed to succeed if hired
- for programs see here
Job Training
- Vocational Education, see here
- On the Job Training, see here
- Computer and Related Technology Classes, see here
Work Experience/Internship Programs
Apprenticeship
Job training expense assistance
Financial assistance or loans to help people pay for tuition, books, living expenses, transportation, disability supports, assistance in caring for dependents etc.
- for programs see here
JOB SEARCH
Pre-job Guidance
Provides skills in preparing a resume, job application letters/questionnaires, answering job ads and taking employment tests, tips on appropriate dress, personal appearance and interview techniques, etc.)
- for programs see here
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centres
One-stop centres that may include job counselling, testing and assessment, pre-job guidance, job matching and referral, labour market and career information, information on financial aid for education and training, and referral for job training, transportation, child care, personal and financial counselling, etc.
- for programs see here
Specialized Job Assistance Centres:
Disability-related programs:
- Comprehensive Disability-related Programs, see here
- Supported Employment (job coach works side-by-side with client in workplace), see here
- Centre-based Employment (separate and supported work centres for those with disabilities), see here
Ex-offender Employment Programs, see here
Immigrant/refugee Employment Programs, see here
Indigenous Employment Programs, see here
Summer Employment Programs, see here
Vocational Rehabilitation (for people with disabilities, emotional problems or history of substance abuse), see here
Youth Employment Programs, see here
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A women's social group who meet to support, educate, and empower Métis women. Through reciprocity and the healing journey, the Circle aims to help Métis woman reclaim and celebrate their cultures, histories and identities.
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Educates people about Indigenous culture. Advocacy work in solidarity with indigenous peoples.
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Comprehensive employment and job search services
Better Jobs Ontario
Skills training and financial support for laid off workers
Services for employers
Canada-Ontario Job Grant
- assessment of skills, interests and experience
- job search strategies, including resume preparation
- information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
- on-the-job training, work experience, help in maintaining employment as well as information and referral to other employment and community services
Better Jobs Ontario
Skills training and financial support for laid off workers
- training program must demonstrate good job prospects
- financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance
Services for employers
- help in identifying human resource skills requirements, matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
- support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention
Canada-Ontario Job Grant
- financial support for individual employers to purchase training for their employees
- available to small, medium and large businesses planning to deliver short-term training for existing or new employees
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Recreation and health promotion programs for children, youth and families:
Family support:
- games and activity-based workshops increase self-esteem and develop decision-making, conflict resolution and cooperation skills
- education and awareness on topics relevant to children and youth, such as substance use, internet safety, bullying, gender bias, violence prevention
- youth, after-school and evening programs in group settings -- social and recreational activities, homework help, computer/internet access
- Holiday Hamper and social/recreation services for residents of Angela's Place supportive housing
- community based activities for children, youth and families at risk
- physical activity, health and safety, leadership growth and empowerment, learning and career development, and academic support
Family support:
- parenting workshops
- information on available resources
- hands-on cultural experiences
- elder involvement
- health and wellness activities
- traditional arts programs and youth mentorship
- employment readiness workshops
- resume writing
- interview skills
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Local contact for Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS), registration inquiries, estates (decedent and living), and general departmental information
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Indigenous-led community organization aims to create a safe space for the restoration and revival of traditional Indigenous culture in the Dufferin County area. Hosts community-building events, educational workshops and spiritual gatherings. Guided by a traditional elder and cultural connectors.
MINO KAMIK Medicine Wheel Garden promotes engagement between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. The garden is a peaceful place of reflection and contemplation for all to visit and learn more about Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel Teachings.
Call or email for information.
MINO KAMIK Medicine Wheel Garden promotes engagement between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. The garden is a peaceful place of reflection and contemplation for all to visit and learn more about Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel Teachings.
Call or email for information.
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Counselling services
Services offered:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), coaching and training
- connecting Indigenous communities to mental wellness through holistic and evidence-based interventions
Services offered:
- phone, video conferencing and "drop-in" sessions (call in and you are paired with a psychotherapist the same day)
- treatment manuals, child & adolescent rewards programs
- Coginitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for depression, PTSD, anxiety, suicidality etc
- can be accessed through KO Keewaytinook Okimakanak E Health Telemedicine
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A post-secondary organization, recognized by community government, and institutions of higher learning, as a centre of excellence for Indigenous knowledge
- delivering community-based post-secondary programming in partnership with publicly funded Ontario Colleges and Universities
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The program is one of 13 Regional Cancer Programs created by Cancer Care Ontario to ensure cancer care is delivered according to province-wide quality standards * oversees the delivery and quality of cancer services for residents of both the Central West and Mississauga Halton regions * online resources
Regional partners include:
- Trillium Health Partners (Queensway Health Centre; Mississauga Hospital; Credit Valley Hospital - Carlo Fidani Regional Cancer Centre, a specialized treatment centre for individuals living with cancer)
- Halton Healthcare (Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Milton District Hospital, Georgetown Hospital)
- Headwaters Health Care Centre (Orangeville)
- William Osler Health System (Brampton Civic Hospital, Etobicoke General Hospital)
- The Indigenous Network
Services and Programs:
- Diagnostic Assessment Program (DAP)
- Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - Cancer Care Clinic
- Trillium Health Partners - Credit Valley Hospital - Carlo Fidani Regional Cancer Centre - Cancer Care Clinic
- Trillium Health Partners - Queensway Health Centre - Betty and Buster Lockwood Cancer Detection and Treatment Centre - Outpatient Cancer Services
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Healthy Babies/Healthy Children Program
1-888-308-6559 905-664-1114
Office Phone: 905-548-9593
Crisis: 1-888-308-6559
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Promoting healthy growth and development of Indigenous babies, building on parenting skills, and linking families with community supports and resources.
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