Provide young people with entry point to long-term employment through job placements that offer the chance to learn work skills while earning income
This program is accessible to all eligible youth, with a focus to assist:
- Visible minority youth
- Youth with poor work retention history
- Youth on social assistance
- Youth who are recent immigrants
- Aboriginal youth
- Youth with a disability
- Youth who live in areas of high youth unemployment
- Youth with poor history of educational attainment
Outcome:
- Employment and improved long-term employability
- Short-term training
- Education: returning to school and/or other academic upgrading
To be eligible, you must:
- Be between 15 and 29 years old
- Be unemployed or working less than 20 hours per week
- Not be attending school or training full-time
- Be a resident of Ontario
For more information contact Tropicana at 416-439-9009 or info@tropicanacommunity.org.