Youth Employment

The Youth Employment project involved expanding the capacity of the Centre jeunesse emploi (CJE), increasing in-house employability services as needed, and building awareness of the CJEs and other employability services.

Participating organizations identified key barriers to employment for English-speaking youth, including but not limited to:

• Inadequate spoken or written French skills, or a gap in services available in English
• Barriers surrounding cultural, technical or required skills
• Confidence issues about entering the workforce
• Unawareness or mistrust of the services offered by the CJEs
• Lack of integration with the French community
• Failure from employers to recognize the benefits of having English-speaking or bilingual employees
• Discrimination from colleagues and employers