Program Information
Apprenticeship Skills Training
To enhance and ensure the successful completion of apprenticeship training as
per ministry requirements.
Career Experience/Job Shadowing
The Career Experience Program is designed to assist participants in assessing
their skills and identifying a career goal.
Community-Based Skills Maintenance
The Community-Based Skills Maintenance Program is designed to ensure
that skills acquired by Six Nations members either through training programs or
employment are maintained or enhanced between jobs.
Community
Capacity Building
The Community Capacity Building program is designed to enable Six Nations
members/organizations/communities to build the capacity needed to achieve
long-range human resource development.
Disability
Opportunity Initiative
The objective of the Disability Opportunity Initiative is to utilize GREAT’s
existing employment and training programs to remove barriers to employment for
persons with disabilities.
Employment
Supports
While funds are extremely limited in the area, the Employment Supports Program
is designed to assist individuals to enter or re-enter the labour market.
Income Support
G.R.E.A.T. offers income support in several different areas.
Internship
Internship provides recent university and college graduates with career related
skills enhancement and work experience to help them make a successful transition
into the labour market.
Job Connect
To provide Six Nations youth assistance in job placements, resume and cover
letter preparation, access to self-help computers, employment planning and job
development placements.
Local Labour
Market Partnerships
One of the objectives of the Local Labour Market Partnerships is to support
partnership activities to foster employment.
Mobility
Assistance
The Mobility Assistance Program is designed to provide access to jobs available
in another locality.
On-the-Job
Training
To provide training and work experience for Six Nations of the Grand River
Members by providing on-the-job training costs, wage subsidies and other
specified costs to employers.
Self-Employment Assistance
The Self-Employment Assistance Program provides financial assistance, training
and technical assistance to individuals in receipt of Employment Insurance
(E.I.) who want to start their own business but will normally lose E.I. benefits
as a result of this decision.
Skills Enhancement
To enhance existing skills of employed Six Nations Band Members, to maintain the
skills for the current technology in the workplace by providing financial
assistance to employers for the training of their employees.
Student Program
The Student Program is designed to provide wage subsidies to employers to
provide career-related jobs for students in Canada.
Summer Challenge
G.R.E.A.T.s Summer Challenge provides an opportunity for secondary students ages
16 – 17 years to develop skills through on the job training while providing
local businesses/organizations with summer help. The program also encourages
personal development through life skills and job readiness training while
stressing the importance of staying in school.
Summer Job
Service
To provide Six Nations students with work experience for the summer months.
Targeted Wage
Subsidy
To provide work experience for Six Nations of the Grand River Band Members by
providing wage subsidies to employers.
Training Purchase
To assist individual Six Nations members to enter into a variety of training
courses from public and private institutions which will increase their skill
level.
Youth
Community Based Projects
One of the objectives of G.R.E.A.T.s Youth Community Based Projects is to
develop work opportunities for youth, Six Nations Band Members, who face greater
barriers to entering the labour market through participation in meaningful
community service projects.
Youth
Information Initiative
The objective of this program is to provide youth with the labour market
information that they need to make decisions about their education, career and
lives.