Sub-Topic: Pre-Employment Workshop

The participant would receive a stipend for those three hours. The date of payment of the stipend is to be decided by the service provider.

There may be situations where the participant may not be able to receive the stipend as it may interfere with benefits received through other income support programs. The service provider should speak to the participant’s caseworker to determine if the receipt of a stipend would disqualify them from continuing to receive benefits from their current income… Continue reading What if the participant can’t receive the stipend?

A service provider could schedule a YJC client into an ES RI workshop if the workshop was designed to achieve the same results. However, ES RI workshops alone will not meet the needs and participation requirements of YJC clients. Service providers will be expected to develop additional workshops to meet the needs of YJC’s highly… Continue reading Can Youth Job Connection (YJC) participants access Employment Service (ES) Resources and Information (RI) workshops as part of their pre-employment hours?

Service providers must negotiate a schedule for completing the required 60 hours of pre-employment services with the participant, based on their needs and as part of their employment service plan.

Issuing stipend payments to participants is under the discretion of the service provider (i.e. daily or weekly).  The pre-employment stipend is intended as an incentive for completing the negotiated pre-employment training workshop. The participant can use these funds to offset costs of participating in the service, such as food, transportation, etc. Service providers must track… Continue reading When is the pre-employment stipend paid to the participant?