Ontario. Youth Employment Services Branch

• Youth Employment Services Branch

The Youth Employment Services Branch was created in the Ontario Ministry of Skills Development in late 1985, replacing the Ontario Youth Secretariat and the Ontario Youth Commissioner. It was comprised of the Ontario Youth Employment Program Section (Summer Programs Unit in 1988), Youth Employment Counselling Centres, Youth Enterprise, and Youth Hotline. In 1986 the Branch was reorganised into the following units: Special Projects Unit, Youth Employment Services, Community Development, Youth Enterprise (Start Up in 1988), Ontario Youth Employment Program Section, and Youth Hotline (Youth and Training Hotline in 1988). The Employer Training Hotline was added in 1987. In 1988 the Youth Employment Services Branch became part of the Skills Training Division. Early in 1989 the Branch was reorganised into two units, the Product and Market Development Unit (which included Youth Hotline and Training Hotline), and Service Delivery.

In April 1990, the Youth Employment Services Branch was transferred to the Ministry of Education, Learning Services Division; Start-Up was renamed the Youth Start-Up Capital Section and transferred to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology, responsibility for the Ontario Summer Employment Program was transferred to the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (in 1991), and management of the Experience Program was transferred to Management Board of Cabinet. The Product and Market Development Unit was renamed Service Development and Support in 1990, and Program Development in 1992. The Youth Employment Services Branch was transferred to the Regional Services Division in 1991 and to the Education Programs and Services Division in 1992. The Branch followed the Education Programs and Services Division to the new Ministry of Education and Training in February, 1993. The Branch was transferred to the Ontario Training Adjustment Board (OTAB) in the fall of 1993, and ceased to exist in 1994, when it was subsumed into Learning and Employment Preparation.

The Youth Employment Services Branch developed policies regarding youth employment. It was also responsible for developing and offering programs that provided counselling, work placements, and summer jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged youth so that the youth would have a better opportunity to succeed in education, training programs, or the full-time workforce. The Branch also funded community-based Youth Employment Counselling Centres which helped unemployed young people develop the skills necessary to secure employment. The Community Action Fund provided financing to local Youth Trusts, which developed and implemented plans to reduce youth unemployment at a local level.

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