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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
• 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 the 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 a women's enterprise centre
• Develops programs and research to advance women's access to a sustainable livelihood
• Provides educational programs, and peer lending for women to start-up and accelerate expansion of their micro enterprises

Offer the following programs for new entrepreneurs and businesses:

• Making a Difference
• Building Bridges-Breaking Barriers
• Enterprise Centre
• PARO Circles
• PARO Presents Store
• PARO on Wheels

Offers the following programs for entrepreneurs and businesses who are ready to expand their business

• Enterprise Centre
• PARO Circles
• PARO Presents Store
• PARO on Wheels
• Women's Enterprise Initiative

Offers the following program for all entrepreneurs who want to make new connections:

• Mentoring Program
• Connecting to the Contracts
• Leadership
• PARO Glow and Grow e-newsletter
• Peer Circles

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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 services, 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

Provides information, assistance, guidance and support for employers on employment matters including:

• Automated Earnings Reporting System (Data Gateway support)
• Record of Employment (ROE)
• Report on Hirings
• Temporary Foreign Worker Program
• Work-Sharing Program

Also provides resources on the following topics:

• Business resources
• Employment Insurance information for employers
• Fairness and diversity in the workplace
• Funding opportunities and programs
• Health and safety in the workplace
• Hiring employees
• Managing work-force challenges
• Regulations and legislation
• Skills development and training

Provides services for job seekers and employers simultaneously to ensure a successful employee/employer relationship

Job seeker services include:

• Job search assistance and prior/post placement support
• Resumé, cover letter, application preparation and updating
• Assistance obtaining required training, certification and life skills
• List of available workshops geared to job seekers

Employer services include:

• Job posting board online and AETS office job posting bulletin board
• Trained and educated prospective employees
• Wage subsidies for training new workers
• Support as needed during hiring process

• Offers various employment and training services to Matawa First Nation members
• Funds training initiatives from various sponsors or for clients who require additional training to secure employment
• Provides adult high school education
• Offers practical career, employment, and individual counselling

Services include but are not limited to:

• Supports the community development of Matawa First Nations by providing training and employment opportunities that will improve infrastructures, businesses and human resources at the community level
• Assists First Nations individuals to improve their personal employment skills and career potential via job training, placements, and counselling services
• Provides opportunities for multiple communities to participate in regional employment
• Assists First Nations youth between the ages of 16 and 30 years to gain meaningful employment skills and experience
• Increases First Nations participation in Apprenticeship Trades training with regional employers
• Assists applicants who may be eligible for income support during their training programs
• Provides guidance and support to unemployed Indigenous people living in the city of Thunder Bay
• Offers a fully equipped Resource Centre with free access to computers, job boards, fax and photocopier

Offers the following programs:

• KKETS Adult Education Program (KAEP) which assists students to obtain their Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
• Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ISETS) which focuses on skills development
• Pre-Apprenticeship Readiness Program which allows people to pursue education, skills development and apprenticeship
• Construction Craft Worker Training Program which teaches skills in construction over a 3-year course
• Indigenous Language Revitalization offered through University of Victoria

• 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

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

• 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 services, 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

Provides financial services in the form of a loan for individuals wishing to:

• Start a business
• Expand an existing business
• In need of extra capital

Loans can be offered up to $150,000 for the following purposes:

• Business start-up
• Business expansion
• Purchase of assets and working capital needed

Advocacy, research, training and public education on gender-based violence

• development of supports and tools for trafficking survivors
• develop of transformative justice for sexual violence survivors
• research on traumatic brain injury, health and safety outcomes, and criminal legal system response to intimate partner violence

Personal Advocacy
For women-identified survivors, skills building training and workshops, peer support, and assistance gaining practical skills for systems navigation (such as family courts and child welfare)

Silent No More
12-week online training for survivors to build self-advocacy and social action skills

EmPACT (Employer Prevention of Abuse through Certification and Training)
Corporate training program to recognize and support employees experiencing or perpetrating intimate partner violence; includes workshops, comprehensive testing, accreditation

Financial Relief Navigator (FRN)

• online tool that provides information and help to access emergency benefits, related to COVID-19, including Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB), and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), as well as other benefits and financial relief from governments, financial institutions, utilities, telecoms and internet providers
• Click HERE for more information

Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan
Plan provides programs in the following three areas:

• Support for Individuals
• Support for Businesses
• Support for Sectors

Support for Individuals
CRB ended Oct 23, 2021, in its place is the Canadian Worker Lockdown Benefit:

• Canadian Worker Lockdown Benefit:
  • will provide $300 per week to workers who are subject to a lockdown, including those who are ineligible for traditional Employment Insurance
• Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB)
  • available to those who need to self-isolate due to COVID-19 will continue until Nov 20, 2021 and is proposed by government to extend until May 7, 2022
  • to apply see CRSB Application
  • for other questions about CRSB see, CRSB Questions
• Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB)
  • available to those who must stop work to care for a child under 12 or a family member who needs supervised care, will continue until Nov 20, 2021 and is proposed by government to extend until May 7, 2022
  • to apply see CRCB Application
  • for other question about CRCB see, CRCB Questions

Canada Student Loans

• see Canada Student Loans - COVID-19 for details
• see Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for Ontario Students

Support for Seniors

• Government of Canada has introduced legislation to support low-income seniors who received pandemic benefits. For information about a One-Time Grant for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Recipients click here.

Provincial Programs
Social Assistance

• Visit Ontario Works and ODSP for up-to-date information and to apply online

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Ontario (WSIB)

• If you believe you contracted COVID-19 while at work, you may file a claim to determine if you are eligible for WSIB coverage, call 1-800-387-0750 or visit WSIB Benefits for more information

Service Ontario

• Service Ontario is reinstating renewal requirements for driver's licences, licence plate stickers, other driver and vehicle products, Ontario Photo Cards and Ontario health cards that were temporarily extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, see Renewal Requirements

OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan)

• Ontario has waived the three-month waiting period for Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage, see Applying for an Ontario Health Card for more details

Utilities Relief
Ontario Energy Board

• See Help for Low-Income Consumers

Telecommunications Relief

• Telus COVID-19 Updates
• Rogers COVID-19 Updates
• If your telecommunications company is not listed here, check their website or contact them directly to learn of any assistance they may be offering

Provides fast tracked re-introduction to skilled trades for trades persons with foreign experience. This program is Ontario wide and fully online. Trades include:

• Electrician
• Millwright
• Plumber
• Metal Fabricator
• Automotive Mechanic

Career transition assistance to reduce barriers to employment, including skills development and training, mentorship opportunities, job fairs and networking events, and employer and labour market engagement

• job coaching
• vocational training, including SalesCamp
• career coaching
• job search assistance for underrepresented populations
• interview and resume preparation
• life skills training

Presentation formats vary by program (virtual, in-person or combination), contact for details

Residential, outpatient and distant delivery substance addiction recovery programs, including alcohol and drug use

Complete Care
Inpatient and outpatient treatment programs, including primary care, alumni and family care, and relapse prevention aftercare

• 6 week intensive outpatient treatment
• residential care in home-like treatment setting
• children's and parenting programs
• separate programs for self-identified men and women
• 12 step philosophy
• continuing care
• workplace programs

Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP)
Home based 26-week intensive outpatient treatment, including 6 weeks intensive programming and 20 weeks continuing care

• remote access, video-conferencing
• pre-admission support groups
• alumni support groups
• family supports
• continuing care

Supports partnerships among employers, employer/employee associations and community organizations to address labour market issues

• assists local communities with the development of innovative strategies to prepare for future skills requirements and prevent skills shortages within new and emerging industries and organizations
• plans for effective utilization of local human resources
• develops and promotes labour market intelligence and its use in labour market development
• amounts awarded vary

Training Programs for the Nonprofit Sector
Training workshops and presentations on issues of violence against women, intervention strategies, legal issues and resources for assaulted women

• consultation for front line workers and management on working with abused women
• anti-violence initiatives and cross-cultural perspectives

Training Programs in the Workplace
Customized training workshops and presentations, and consultation, on issues of violence against women

• human resources strategies
• employee assistance programs training
• working with abused women
• developing structural supports and changes

Job search support

Services

• job training
• youth justice
• managing your money
• health
• student aid and education planning
• leadership and cultural programs
• travel the world

Bilingual online job bank serving the needs of job seekers and employers; mobile app available

For information on jobs and career options, as well as government resources to help you work during the Covid-19 pandemic, click here: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/findajob/resources/covid-19



Job Seekers

• job postings
• student/youth job listings
• job profile/job match service
• job alerts
• job market trends (prospects, wages)
• fields of study
• skills checklist and career planning information
• resume builder

Employers

• advertise job vacancies
• hire a student/youth
• recruitment advice and information for human resources management

Employment and education services provider linking Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) with Canadian businesses

Employment and education services for IEPs, including:

• Job referrals
• Career counselling
• Workplace communication & industry specific English training
• Work placements
• Mentorship matches
• Networking opportunities

Staffing and support services for businesses, including:

• Staffing solutions
• Work placements
• Cultural competency training for employers
• Workplace mentorship initiatives
• Bookkeeping, taxation and IT support for start-ups and SMEs

Assists members with the transition into a new career in the building and construction industry

• includes administrative, engineering, and management positions
• offers apprenticeship opportunities to achieve a journeyperson qualification

Approved grants for 2023:

• The Skills Blend Program
• The Skills Blend will maintain four lines of effort:

1. Enable Apprenticeship referrals across Ontario
2. Academic upgrading (in partnership with Fanshawe College) to meet the needs of the Skilled Trades
3. Support Basics of Supervising training for the construction industry
4. Identify homeless and at-risk Canadian Armed Forces Veterans and move them to independent living/apprenticeship referral

Pre-arrival service providing specialized information and orientation about skilled trades ​

• employment consultations personalized to clients' needs and goals
• service offered through Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, telephone, email, etc
• workshops cover topics such as Canadian workplace culture, popular skilled trades, job search techniques and more

Meeting facilitation services (in person and online):

• strategic planning
• implementation plans
• team building
• focus groups
• group conflict resolution
• brainstorming
• prioritization
• community consultations
• expert roundtables and more