Ontario Youth Commissioner

• Ontario Youth Commissioner

The office of the Ontario Youth Commissioner was established in early 1984. The Commissioner reported to the Chairman of the Board of Industrial Leadership and Development (BILD), a Committee of Cabinet chaired by the Treasurer (Ministry of Treasury and Economics), until 1985 when the Office of the Commissioner was transferred to the Ministry of Skills Development and became responsible for advising the ministry on youth employment strategy. In 1986, the Office of the Ontario Youth Commissioner was disbanded and its responsibilities were transferred to the Youth Employment Services Branch.

The Ontario Youth Commissioner oversaw the co-ordination and design of provincial youth training and employment programs, and worked with individual firms and volunteer groups to involve them in these programs. The Commissioner was responsible for the Ontario Youth Opportunities Fund (a three-year program funding new training and employment opportunities for youth), for establishing Youth Trusts (community action groups whose objective is to reduce youth unemployment at a local level) throughout Ontario, and for administering the Youth Trust Fund (which subsidized exceptional employment- related projects and provided limited financial assistance to support Youth Trust activities where need was demonstrated).

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Archivist(s):
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