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Alphabetical Listing of Programs and Services

Apprenticeship Client Services

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Apprenticeship Enhancement Fund (AEF)

AEF provides funding to Ontario colleges delivering apprenticeship training programs to upgrade equipment and facilities, and to support increased apprenticeship placements.

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Apprenticeship Innovation Fund (AIF)

The Apprenticeship Innovation Fund supports the development of new training programs, and innovative, flexible delivery methods in response to industry and apprentice needs. It also supports the development of prior learning assessment tools to support outcomes-based training, and ensures that apprenticeship programs are outcomes-based and adapted to new technologies.

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Co-op Diploma Apprenticeship Program (CODA)

The Co-op Diploma Apprenticeship Program combines a college diploma program and apprenticeship training leading to a Certificate of Qualification.

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Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSMs)

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Employment Ontario Network Development Fund (EONDF)

Employment Ontario Network Development Fund (EONDF) supports the development and capacity of the Employment Ontario third party service delivery network.

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Employment Service (ES)

Employment Service offers a range of resources, supports and service components to respond to the career and employment needs of individuals and the skilled labour needs of employers, and can help individuals on a path to higher skill training and employment. The five components of the Employment Service provide a highly flexible tool kit of services that can be customized to a client‘s particular needs.

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Job Creation Partnerships (JCP)

Ontario Job Creation Partnerships is an employment program that provides work experience to unemployed job seekers within projects that benefit the community or local economy

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Labour Market Partnerships (LMP)

Cost-shared program provides funds for facilities and/or equipment to Ontario Training Centres (including union training centres, employer training centres, and union-employer partnered training centres) to meet the skills training and apprenticeship needs of the economy.

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Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS)

The Literacy and Basic Skills Program provides free training in reading and writing, math, and basic work skills.

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Ontario Employment Assistance Services (OEAS)

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Ontario Self Employment Benefit (OSEB)

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Ontario Skills Training Enhancement Program (OSTEP)

The Ontario Skills Training Enhancement Program (OSTEP) replaces and expands upon the Skills Training Infrastructure Program (STIP) to support union, employer and union-employer training centres in Ontario to update, expand or purchase new facilities and to update, replace, or purchase new training equipment to increase skills training capacity and training to industry standards.

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Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)

The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) is a school-to-work transition program offered through Ontario secondary schools.

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Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program

The Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program helps potential entrants to the apprenticeship system develop their job skills and trade readiness so that they will be prepared to find work as apprentices.

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Second Career

Second Career is an Ontario government program that offers training for a new job, including financial support.

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Sector Initiative Fund Program (SIF)

The Sector Initiatives Fund, initiated in 2001, supports sector-based program planning and curriculum development.

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Specialist High Skills Major

First launched in 2006-07, the SHSM is a specialized career-focussed program option for students within the requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).

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Summer Jobs Service (SJS)

Free job-search and self-marketing support is available through Employment Ontario Summer Jobs Services agencies to help students find summer jobs. A $2-per-hour-per-student hiring incentive is available for eligible Ontario employers to create summer job placements.

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Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW)

The TIOW is a federal-provincial cost-shared program targeting unemployed workers aged 55 to 64 living in communities of less than 250,000 people that have high unemployment or a high reliance on single industries.

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