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Programs to help youth gain employment or employability skills. Includes federal and provincial job programs, career counselling, job search assistance, volunteer or paid work experiences, and job training.
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Provides summer employment opportunities to nursing students at health care facilities across PEI. Work sites include:
- Public health care facilities
- Private long term care facilities
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Provides students with summer employment that exposes them to health care fields in Epekwitk / PEI. Work sites may include:
- Long term care facilities
- Home care
- Primary care sites
- Hospitals (including psychiatric)
- Health PEI head office
Application deadline is in March.
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Provides full-time students valuable, hands-on work experience related to their field of study and allows for a wealth of learning opportunities.
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Expanding Your Reach Provided by: Reach Foundation - AKA: Reach
Participants take part in a 8-week day program to help them in early recovery from mental health or addictions issues as they prepare to transition back to work or school. The program is multi-faceted and includes:
- Checking in with assigned supervisor
- Weekly counselling sessions
- Learning recovery, life and wellness skills through group classes
- Gaining hands-on experience and developing real work skills through in-house businesses
- Essential skills building in areas like literacy, computer use, problem solving, team work, and communication
- Experience in practical areas like food safety, cooking techniques, household chores, personal finances, etc.
- Meal planning and nutrition
- Physical health and fitness
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Provides Caregiving Benefits through Employment Insurance. Eligible caregivers could receive financial assistance of up to 55% of their earnings, to a maximum of $638 a week. These benefits will help them take time away from work to provide care or support to a critically ill or injured person or someone needing end-of-life care.
Caregivers do not have to be related to or live with the person they are caring for but they must consider you to be like family. There are three types of caregiving benefits:
Eligible caregivers can receive benefits during the 52 weeks following the date the person is certified by a medical doctor or nurse practitioner to be critically ill or injured or in need of end-of-life care. Eligible caregivers can take the weeks of benefits within this timeframe either all at once or in separate periods.
The weeks of benefits can be shared by eligible caregivers, either at the same time or one after another.
Caregivers do not have to be related to or live with the person they are caring for but they must consider you to be like family. There are three types of caregiving benefits:
- Family Caregiver Benefit for Children: Providing care to a critically ill or injured person under 18 years (maximum weeks payable up to 35 weeks)
- Family Caregiver Benefit for Adults: Providing care to a critically ill or injured person 18 years or older(maximum weeks payable up to 15 weeks)
- Compassionate Care Benefits: A person of any age who requires end-of-life care (maximum weeks payable up to 26 weeks)
Eligible caregivers can receive benefits during the 52 weeks following the date the person is certified by a medical doctor or nurse practitioner to be critically ill or injured or in need of end-of-life care. Eligible caregivers can take the weeks of benefits within this timeframe either all at once or in separate periods.
The weeks of benefits can be shared by eligible caregivers, either at the same time or one after another.
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Provides a list of employment resources and information about specific provincial government job opportunity initiatives offered by the Employment Development Agency, including:
- Seasonal Job Registry
- Registering for Jobs at WorkPEI
- Seasonal Hiring Centre
- Student Summer Employment Programs
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Provides a five week course that focuses on customer service in the tourism industry. Students are paid to participate. Classroom teachings include:
- Life skills
- Employability and essential skills
- Specialized training including First Aid and CPR, WHMIS, Service Excellence, Food Service Certification, Responsible Beverage Server
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Combines classroom studies with practical work experience outside the university environment. This enhances students' learning by applying, testing, and observing classroom concepts in meaningful work situations.
Offered in the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Science.
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Offered in the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Science.
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Provides a six-month training program to students to learn skills and knowledge of correctional services. Includes:
- Intervention
- De-escalation strategies
- Crisis management
- Canadian law
- Ethics and professionalism
- Workplace health and safety
- Topics specific to correctional services
This program is delivered in partnership with the Atlantic Police Academy (APA). Funding may be available through Skills PEI.
Graduating students will be guaranteed an interview with the Public Service Commission for casual employment at one of PEI's correctional facilities.
Application deadline is November 28, 2024.
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4-H Projects Provided by: 4-H PEI
Offers a variety of programs for youth to help explore and develop life long skills.
Projects include:
- Agriculture (livestock production and management through the experience of owning, caring for, showing and marketing projects, and maintaining records)
- Food and Entertaining (opportunities to lean about food preparation and nutrition)
- Creative Arts (different areas of art and design)
- Industrial Technologies (introductory industrial technical learning projects that will help build useful life skills)
- The Great Outdoors (outdoor projects and activities that include recreation and plant projects)
- Leadership (for high school students to develop leadership and employment skills)
4-H clubs are located across Epekwitk / PEI.
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- Disaster / Extreme Weather
- Dental and Pharmacare
- Education and Training
- Family and Children Financial Assistance
- Financial Assistance for Indigenous Peoples
- Financial Assistance for Older Adults
- Financial Assistance for People with Disabilities
- Government Benefits
- Health Expense and Medical Equipment
- Home Purchase and Rental Support
- Home Renovation and Repair Assistance
- Medical Transportation Assistance
- Money Management and Tax Supports
- Recreation
- Utilities
- Veterans Financial Assistance
- Workers Financial Assistance
- Camps, Classes and Social Events
- Child and Youth
- Dental
- Find a Health Professional
- Health Condition Organizations
- Health Support Groups
- Home Supports and Long Term Care
- Hospitals and Walk-ins
- Immunizations, Medical Records, Screenings and Tests
- Medical Equipment and Specialized Needs
- Medical Expense Assistance
- Medical Transportation
- Navigation and Health Helplines
- Older Adults
- Respite, Hospice and Palliative Care
- Sexual Health
- Women, Pregnancy and Postnatal
We acknowledge that the land on which we learn, live and work is the traditional unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people of Epekwitk, represented by the Abegweit First Nation and Lennox Island First Nation.