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