https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100033610/1533125433575

This program provides youth with summer employment opportunities where they can gain work experience and develop important skills such as communication, problem-solving and teamwork.

Projects under the First Nations and Inuit Summer Work Experience Program allow youth to learn about career options and earn an income that can contribute to a university or college education.

Successful proposals:

• include plans to offer wage subsidies to private sector and non-profit employers so they can hire eligible First Nations and Inuit youth
• help First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students find summer employment and prepare for entry into the labour market
• enable First Nations and Inuit youth to earn wages

The proposals will support work experience opportunities for First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students between May 1 and the beginning of the student's fall academic term.

Proposals are accepted for each fiscal year.

Funding recipients will determine the wage rate for participants. It must be at or above the applicable provincial or territorial minimum wage.

Who can apply

• First Nations and Inuit communities
• First Nations and Inuit governments
• First Nations and Inuit organizations
• Not-for-profit associations
• Private sector employers

Successful recipients may offer employment opportunities for youth directly or enter into agreements with private sector and non-profit sector employers to access employment opportunities for youth.

Eligible youth participants

Proposals must provide summer employment for First Nations and Inuit secondary and post-secondary students aged 15 to 30 who are ordinarily resident on reserve, in recognized communities or on community lands.

Ordinarily resident on reserve means that eligible youth: