Skills Link

Skills Link helps youth facing barriers to employment develop the broad range of skills, knowledge and work experience they need to participate in the job market. This program offers a wide range of activities that can be tailored to meet individual needs and provide more intensive assistance over longer periods of time.

Click here for the Skills Link Notice regarding Youth Discovering Employment

Program Description

This program is a client-centered program, designed to respond to the individual needs of youth facing barriers to employment. During the client assessment process, employability skills, issues and needs are identified, as well as employment goals. Youth selected to participate in Skills Link activities then develop an employment action plan and are case managed by a case manager or project manager. The case managers guide and support participants while they work through their employment action plans and develop their employability skills. Youth benefit from this client-centered approach and the ongoing support that helps them to successfully complete activities and, ultimately, find and keep a job.

Eligibility Requirements

To participate in Skills Link projects, youth must be:

• Between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) at the time of intake/selection;
  
  
• Out of school;
  
  
• A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee status has been conferred;
  
  
• Legally entitled to work according to the relevant provincial/territorial legislations and regulations;
  
  
• Not in receipt of Employment Inursance (EI) benefits;
  
  
• In need of assistance to overcome employment barriers.

The Y offers Skills Link programs at different times throughout the year. For more information about an upcoming Skills Link program, please contact Michaela Penney, Coordinator at 709-754-2982 x.25 or at mpenney@ynortheastavalon.com