May 31, 2012
Over $6.6 Million for Student Employment Programs
Provides Nearly 3,000 Jobs for Students
Youth and students can take advantage of employment opportunities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador as the result of over $6.6 million provided by the Provincial Government for employment programs. This funding will benefit nearly 3,000 youth across the province.
“Student employment is often a young person’s first exposure to the labour market,” said the Honourable Joan Burke, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills. “It is a great way to establish positive lifelong work habits and acquire skills to understand the value of earning a living. At a time of unprecedented development and educational opportunity, our government is ensuring students and youth are helping to build on the growth already occurring.”
Employment programs provide jobs for youth and students that span a wide range of sectors such as tourism; culture and heritage; sports and recreation; environmental sustainability; health and medical; marketing and economic development. As well as providing valuable experience and important life skills, these jobs are helping students with the costs of education. A list of student and youth employment programs is included in the attached backgrounder.
“For many, Newfoundland and Labrador has always been a preferred place to live and work, and now improving economic opportunities are providing young people with the ability to settle in our province and make a life here,” said Minister Burke. “With the expectation that the province will see as many as 70,000 job openings in the next 10 years, this government is directly supporting student employment and is focused on creating opportunities, providing skills training, delivering affordable and accessible education, and building a prosperous future for our young people.”
Employers receiving funding to hire a student are required to post the
position on JobsinNL.ca.
For additional information on specific student and
youth employment programs and how to benefit visit one of our Career Work Centres,
www.lmiworks.com/CareerWorkCentres,
or call the Labour Market and
Career Information Hotline at 1-800-563-6600.
Students can also ask questions about employment programs through the
following social media networks:
www.facebook.com/EngageYouthNL
or
www.twitter.com/#!/EngageYouthNL.
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Media contact:
John Tompkins
Director of Communications
Department of Advanced Education and Skills
709-729-0753, 728-7762
jtompkins@gov.nl.ca
BACKGROUNDER
Descriptions of Student and Youth Employment Programs
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador offers a suite of student employment programs, each one benefiting the youth of this province:
Student Work and Service Program (SWASP) - Paid Employment Component: provides a wage subsidy of $5 per hour for employers to hire students for the summer who plan to start or continue post-secondary education in the fall. In addition to the wage subsidy, the student is provided with a $50 weekly post-secondary tuition voucher.
Student Employment Program – Non-Profit Component: provides a $1,400 stipend and a $1,400 post-secondary tuition voucher to non-profit agencies to hire students for 35 hours a week. Students who plan to start or continue post-secondary education in the fall are eligible for this program.
Student Work and Service Program (SWASP) – Community Youth Networks: pays participating students with a combination of stipend and voucher totalling $2,800 for eight weeks of summer work in a Community Youth Network or affiliated non-profit agency selected by the this group.
Student Work and Service Program – MUN and CNA: enables summer work placements in departments and organizations within each institution. Students are paid with a tuition credit of $1,400 for an eight-week placement in addition to a $1,400 stipend.
Year-Round Student Work and Service Program (SWASP) and Career Exploration Experience with Income Support Program (CEEIS): these programs, administered through the Community Youth Network, are intended to allow SWASP opportunities year-round for those students who have dropped out of school in an effort to bring these youth back into the educational setting. They receive a weekly stipend and tuition voucher for post-secondary upon completion of the program.
Student Employment Program – High School (Level I, II, III): through this program non-profit organizations receive a full wage subsidy to a maximum of $10 per hour plus administrative costs to hire a high school student. The position is a minimum of three weeks to a maximum of eight weeks and provides at least 20 hours of work per week.
Conservation Corps – Green Team Program: delivers summer employment projects across the province in partnership with community organizations and the corporate sector that are focused on environmental conservation, sustainable communities, and heritage preservation.
Kangidluasuk Student Program, Nain, Labrador: enables Inuit youth, age 16 to 25, to participate in one of two consecutive 14-day summer field placements at base camp in the Torngat Mountains National Park. The program’s focus is on engaging Inuit youth from remote communities in alternate career alternatives in their region of the province.
Social Work Recruitment, Eastern Health: provides social work placements for third-year social work students in both rural and urban positions in the province.
Value of Work, Value of Money, Community Centre Alliance: provides at-risk youth with paid summer employment, a tuition voucher and training sessions related to taking ownership of their educational goals and financial well being.
Rural Practice Medical – Newfoundland and Labrador Health Boards Association: provides medical students with a work placement in a rural setting for the summer months and is eligible to medical students from Memorial and other universities who desire to have work placements in rural Newfoundland.
Small Enterprise Co-op Placement Assistance Program (SECPAP) - Memorial University and the College of the North Atlantic: provides private sector employers with a 50 per cent wage subsidy for students enrolled in co-op education programs and who were employed on work-term placements.
Memorial University Faculty of Education – Rural Placement: provides assistance to students to take part in a comprehensive seminar-based instructional component as well as a four-week placement in rural schools in the province in the spring. The program complements the mandatory internship placement of the Bachelor of Education program and the $150,000 annual grant enables approximately 47 placements each year.
Marine Institute Co-op (Youth Opportunities Program): assist post-secondary students at Marine Institute in arranging work-terms in a number of subject areas including Nautical Science, Marine Engineering, Marine Environmental. This funding is essential to enabling students to be able to secure required work-terms in larger mainland centers or vessels.
Partnership in Academic and Career Education and Employment Program (PACEE) – MUN and CNA: provides eight week student jobs in paid positions at Memorial University and the College of the North Atlantic.
Student Summer Supports: provides 24 placements for post-secondary students to assist the Department of Advanced Education and Skills with delivery of student employment programs.
Tutoring Work Experience Program (TWEP) – School Districts and Centre for Distance Learning Imitative (CDLI): provides work experience for post-secondary students who tutor high school students prior to and during year-end exams. Tutors earn equivalent to minimum wage for up to 35 hours per week for six weeks through an equal amount of stipend and post-secondary tuition voucher.
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