Self
Employment Assistance
Objective:
To
assist unemployed persons to become self employed by starting a
viable business.
Key
Elements of SE
The
key elements of SE which focus on the needs of the individual
eligible participant are:
Client
orientation sessions to enable the eligible participants to
assess risk and opportunities of self-employment and personal
suitability;
Support
and workshops to enable potential eligible participants to
develop business concepts;
Mechanism
for review of the viability of proposed business plans;
Agreement
to support approved eligible participants with the
development and implementation of their business plans, based on
participant eligibility and viability of their business plans;
Provision
of income support for eligible participants in the SE program;
Business
development support, including workshops, coaching and access
to specific business implementation training; and
On-site
monitoring of the implementation of the business plans
.
Eligible
Participants
Unemployed
individuals wishing to start their own business.
Objective:
The skills development program is designed to reinforce the concept
that individual participants can take control of their
future.
Skills development supports the concept that clients who plan their own
future, commit to an action plan and contribute to the implementation
of the plan, are most likely to succeed. Through skills
development, selected individuals, who are also insured participants,
negotiate a level of financial assistance to take the training needed
to become employed. The skills development program provides a
mechanism that allows insured participants to make an appropriate
financial contribution and reinforces support for their
future.
The skills development program is intended to support individuals whose
Return to Work Action Plan identifies a lack of marketable skills as an
employment barrier and demonstrates that training is the most
appropriate intervention to facilitate their re-entry into employment.
Eligible Training
Businesses, educational institutions, qualified trainers.
The types of training supported by Huronia include skills training for
specific occupations, academic upgrading (if it leads to occupational
skills training or employment and is not an end in and of itself),
literacy/numeracy training for labour market destined clients. (English
as a second language). All training must lead to a degree,
certificate or diploma.
Full-time training is defined by each educational
institution.
Part-time training would be training that an institution considers less
than full-time. As there is no minimum duration on the length
of
a training program that can be supported under the skills development
program, each client request for assistance pertaining to
correspondence courses, short courses, distance education, web-based
courses, part-time studies, and the like, should be assessed on an
individual basis.
Eligible Participants
Unemployed/underemployed persons who require assistance to overcome
existing or anticipated labour market barriers.
Underemployed individuals can be supported in part time courses if
their job is in jeopardy, or if they are underemployed in chosen field
(tuition and course costs only), or if their existing job is low
skilled (severely underemployed).
Out of regular high school at least one year if requesting assistance
with a skilled course.
Out of regular high school at least two years if requesting assistance
with upgrading.
Client must be a worker client (labour force attachment) not a student
client.
Eligible Course Purchases
Course must be full time – minimum 20 hours per week
Part time courses may be considered for unemployed individuals only if
full time is not available i.e. remote communities, alter-abled clients.
Conferences and workshops are not eligible and become the
responsibility of the employer.
Mobility
Assistance
Objective
To assist individuals with jobs available in other localities.
Eligible
Participants
Mobile individuals who are unemployed or about to become unemployed and
who have few or no possibilities of employment locally.
Guaranteed employment verified.
Training programs do not qualify, must be employment.
Job Creation
Partnerships
Objective
To provide opportunities for unemployed workers to maintain and develop
skills in order to enter or re-enter the labour market.
Eligible
Coordinators
Businesses, organizations, public health and educational institutions,
municipal and provincial governments and band councils.
Eligible
Participants
Unemployed workers.
Experienced with no job expectation.
Objective
To encourage employers to create career-related summer jobs for
students.
Eligible
Employers
Businesses, organizations, public health and educational institutions,
municipal governments and band councils.
Eligible
Participants
Full time students aged 14 to 30 years, who intend to return to school.
Under 35 Alter-Abled participants.
Targeted Wage Subsidy Program
Objective
To encourage employers to hire employees and to provide on the job as
well as off the job training that will lead to employment.
Eligible
Coordinators
Businesses, organizations, public health and educational institutions,
municipal governments and band councils.
Eligible
Participants
Unemployed or underemployed individuals facing employment disadvantages.
Objective
This employment and training measure is designed to benefit Aboriginal
youth(18 to 30) by providing high quality work experience.
Eligible
Participants
Unemployed Aboriginal youth between the ages of 18-30 who have not
successfully been able to find employment in their chosen career or
educational paths. Participants must not be in school or
returning to school.
Barriers must be assessed by the employment counsellor.
Eligible
Employers
Private sector employers, public sector, not for profit corporations,
band councils.
Requirements
for the measure
The client must have an assessment and written recommendation by an
employment counsellor. The employer will provide a
work/training
plan that will be assessed by Huronia prior to entering the agreement.
Objective
To provide community youth groups with financial assistance that will
promote discussion and planning around employment and career
goals. The sponsor/youth group will host/plan career fairs,
lectures, employment workshops or other related activities.
This
program is designed to promote information sharing between the
participants, between employers, educators and elders. It is
expected they will form relationships with other organizations that
will build a foundation fostering the needs of the
communities’
youth.
Eligible
Participants
Aboriginal youth between the ages of 15-30.
Eligible
Sponsors
Aboriginal community based not-for-profit organizations.
Duration
To be negotiated.
Requirements
for the measure
The sponsor/youth group will be responsible for providing the LDM with
an outline of the workshop(s) including an agenda, the names of the
participants attending, the topic or theme of the forum (i.e. career
planning through mentoring, how to find a job, picking a career), a
list of the desired goals expected from the forum, and a narrative of
the forum at the completion.
Stay In School Initiative
Objective
To assist students at the elementary and secondary levels who are at
risk of dropping out before completing high-school by allowing
community stakeholders to develop innovative and effective programs and
services.
Eligible
Stakeholders
Businesses, organizations, public health and educational institutions,
municipal governments and band councils.
Eligible
Participants
Elementary or secondary students at risk of dropping out of school.
Aboriginal Purchase of
Training – Small Business
Objective
To assist private business owners who require assistance to increase
their skills through training courses with qualified trainers; in order
to further develop their business potential.
Eligible
Participants
Private, for-profit, Aboriginal business owners who can demonstrate a
necessity to develop skills to enhance or expand their business
operations, as well as demonstrate the need for financial assistance,
as determined by Huronia.
Small Business Support
Program
Objective
To assist entrepreneurs or potential entrepreneurs, who require
assistance in developing their business skills, to attend relevant
workshops, conferences or seminars.
Eligible
Participants
Private, for-profit, Aboriginal business owners or individuals who can
demonstrate the benefits of attendance of the workshop, conference or
seminar and how it would increase their business potential and can
demonstrated the need for financial assistance, as determine d by
Huronia.
Duration
Conference, workshops, seminars not exceeding five days.
Local Labour Market Partnerships
Objective
To encourage communities to take responsibility for their own
employment and training related needs by building on the capabilities
and strengths of organization and relationships that already exist in
the community.
Other
Objectives
Enhance community networking
Enhance decision making
Reduce or eliminate duplication and overlap
Better utilization of financial and human resources
Increase available local labour market information
Incarcerated
Transitions Program
Objective
This program allows the individual to work towards implementing a
positive post release plan of action.
Eligible
Participants
This program is designed for access to those serving sentences in a
federal or provincial correction system.
Duration
Three months prior to release.
Requirements
The participant will undergo a detailed assessment with an Employment
Counsellor to determine the suitability and desire of the participant
to achieve the end goal. A short and long term action plan
will
be developed and post release program interventions will be negotiated
with the LDM of client origin.
Aboriginal Employment
Assistance Support Measure
Objective
To help local community organizations to provide employment services to
unemployed persons.
Eligible
Coordinators
Businesses, organizations, public health and educational institutions,
municipal governments and band councils.
Objective
To reduce reliance on income support programs.
To promote access of the alter-abled to employment and training
programs.
To increase availability of work related supports.
To encourage employers to make appropriate job/workplace accommodations.
To promote employment and self-employment opportunities for alter-abled
Aboriginal peoples.
Eligible
Participants
Aboriginal persons, who self-identify as having a disability, are in
need of assistance to prepare for, find and maintain employment and
self-employment.
Eligible
Employers/Training Providers
Businesses, educational institutions, health facilities, community
based organizations, band councils.
Duration
To be negotiated, based on a per client need.
