CANS Role in Building Futures for Youth
CANS acts as the community host for the Building Futures for Youth program. Our responsibilities include:
- Providing a program coordinator to supervise and manage all aspects of the program
- Creating pre-screening materials
- Delivering presentations on the program to teachers, administrators, guidance staff, students, and their families
- Conducting interviews in partnership with local school boards and industry
- Creating profiles for students and employers
- Identifying placements within the industry, including pre-screening employers, liaising with relevant union representatives and the NS Construction Labour Relations Association, and facilitating effective matches between employers and students
- Delivering risk management and orientation sessions to enrolled students and their families
- Developing and providing logbooks for students to document their training and work experience
- Creating and administering training and program evaluations for students and employers
- Administering safety benchmarks to students during their training at NSCC and again at the end of their work placement
- Providing mentorship training for journeypersons from participating employers
- Acting as a liaison between the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and industry to promote the Cooperative Education program
- Issuing Certificates of Participation to students who successfully complete the program
- Hosting an end-of-summer celebration for employers, supervisors, mentors, pre-apprentices, and teachers
- Participating in the annual evaluation of the program, including gathering feedback from all partners and following up with students
- Expanding and maintaining the Building Futures for Youth website
- Distributing information and promotional packages to schools, students, parents, and employers
- Developing a timeline and work plan in consultation with the BFY working group
Please visit www.buildingfutures.ca to learn more.
For more information, contact:
Barb Minard
Building Futures for Youth Program Lead
T: 902-468-2267 ext. 724
C: 902-817-5214
E: bminard@cans.ns.ca