YES Employment Services administers a variety of employment programs. Most of the programs delivered fall under the Employment Ontario umbrella. Provincial funders include the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities, and the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. YES also receives funding from Service Canada.
YES partners with Ontario Works to award ten $500 grants to deserving clients annually. YES also awards one $500 scholarship per year to a YES client who is pursuing post-secondary education. This scholarship is funded by our own fundraising initiatives.
We are also able to offer a TTY Telephone System for the hearing impaired, and a computer equipped with ZoomText and a 21" Monitor for visual enhancement, thanks to funding from the Trillium Foundation. We continue to enhance programs through local fundraising to provide the best service that we can for the Thunder Bay and Nipigon areas.
Current Committee Representation
- Employment Resource Committee Community Coalition
- SALEP Committee - Board of Education (Supervised Alternative Learning for Excused Pupils)
- Community Housing Coalition (Homelessness issue)
- Passport to Prosperity Group (linking education & training to jobs for youth) - North Superior Training
- Board - Education & Training Representative
- CCUPCY (Community Coalition Unified for the Protection of our Children & Youth) Aboriginal Youth
Achievement and Recognition Awards
- Chamber of Commerce - After Business
- Community Youth Coalition - Thunder Bay District Health Unit
- Certification Day Planning Committee – Passport to Prosperity
- Nipigon Chamber of Commerce
- Certification Day Planning Committee
We also have a number of working partnerships/alliances which enhance service.
- Trendline Scandcorp - referral process in place
- Ontario Works - referral process in place
- Volunteer Thunder Bay! - referral process in place.
- Confederation College – also offering the Job Connect and Summer Jobs Service programs
- Apprenticeship Office - referral process - working relationship
- Lakehead University - student and co-op programming - working relationship/Widening Horizons project Intern Site
- Lakehead Social Planning Council
- Grant Thornton project (Superior Connections) - referral process in place
- Lakehead Employment Services- referral process in place
- PARO Place project (Self Employment Benefit) - referral process in place
- BDO Dunwoody project (Self Employment Benefit) - referral process in place)
- March of Dimes project (Achieving Success) - referral process in place
- Independent Living Resource Centre project (Creating Employment Options)-referral process in place.
- Lakehead Board of Education Adult Education Centre – referral process in place.
- North Superior Training Board - Career Festival, Passport to Prosperity, Education and Training
Mission Statement
Board of Directors
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