Skills Link - Canada

Source: Government of Canada

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada's Skills Link program helps youth facing barriers to employment - such as single parents, Aboriginal youth, young persons with disabilities, recent immigrants, youth living in rural and remote areas and high school dropouts - obtain the knowledge and develop the broad range of skills and work experience they need to participate in the job market. 

Skills Link offers a range of programs and services that can be tailored to meet individual needs and provide more intensive assistance over longer periods of time.

Skills Link offers a client-centred approach based on an assessment of the specific needs of individual youth. The program supports youth in developing basic and advanced employment skills; therefore participants benefit from a coordinated approach, providing longer term supports and services that can help them find and keep a job.

Eligible Participants

To participate in Skills Link projects, youth must be:

• between the ages of 15 and 30 (inclusive) at time of intake/selection;
• in need of assistance to overcome employment barriers;
• Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or persons on whom refugee protection has been conferred;
• out of school;
• legally entitled to work according to relevant provincial/territorial legislation and regulations; and
• not in receipt of Employment Insurance (EI) benefits.

Who can be a recipient

Businesses, Crown corporations, organizations (including not-for-profit, professional, employer and labour associations), public health and educational institutions, band/tribal councils and municipal governments.

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