The City provides some hiring help to local employers through the youth employment initiatives below. Employers can also access hiring help and resources at no cost through Employment Ontario.

Toronto Youth Partnerships & Employment (TYPE) is a mobile intensive case management program supporting vulnerable youth (age 16-29) in Toronto, who are facing multiple and complex barriers to finding employment. An Outreach Youth Counsellor will help you with life stabilization supports by developing an action plan and connecting you to relevant services, programs and resources.

TYPE helps you move towards employability by identifying your skills and interests and working through the barriers that prevent you from reaching your immediate and long-term employment goals.

Youth in the TYPE program can access:

  • intensive, mobile, and youth directed support and service planning
  • support with job readiness and job preparation
  • connection to employment, education, and training programs

TYPE supports youth who identify as part of the following equity deserving groups:

  • Indigenous
  • Black
  • Newcomer
  • Person with Disabilities
  • 2SLGBTQ+
  • Experiencing Gender-Based Violence
  • Involvement with the Justice System

Contact

Email: type@toronto.ca

Youth Employment Partnerships (YEP) is a neighbourhood-based youth employment network that offers job placement and staffing services to organizations throughout Toronto absolutely free.

Supporting hundreds of employers and thousands of Toronto youth annually, YEP is able to directly connect employers with the right local or city wide employment service. Striving to improve employment retention, YEP has the flexibility to offer subsidized or unsubsidized job placements to all eligible Toronto employers with many additional benefits and supports to job seekers and employers for each new hire during the first few months of employment.

For more info about how employers can take advantage of the YEP Network, contact Veronica (Roni) Simic Community Development Officer at Veronica.Simic@toronto.ca.

Services that YEP provides include:

  • wage subsidies, where available
  • posting of your job opportunities on our electronic job board
  • job fairs when your organization has multiple job postings
  • screening and matching young people to your job openings
  • pre-employment and on-going support
  • employer and potential employee support on a confidential, individual basis
  • help developing your apprenticeship opportunities
  • helping employers train today’s youth to meet your future workforce needs