SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
	This page contains links to local organizations, programs or resources that specifically deal with matters of special interest groups in relation to career planning and employment.

• Aboriginal Business Canada - Youth Entrepreneurship: Helping youth-owned aboriginal businesses. Advice and financing for aboriginal entrepreneurs 18-29: business plans, marketing, financing a start-up. Youth entrepreneurship. "Promoting the Growth of Canada's Aboriginal Businesses." By Industry Canada.
• Aboriginal Business Development Online: Site aimed at building the aboriginal economy in Ontario, with links to government programs and aboriginal businesses. Aboriginal partnerships with the private sector. Business Development Guide has the steps to start and grow a viable business. First Nations economic organizations.
• Aboriginal Youth Business Council: A youth-driven council of First Nation, Metis and Inuit entrepreneurs, helping other youth learn about business. Profiles of successful young entrepreneurs. Discussion group with a business mentor. Funding from Aboriginal Business Canada.
• Career Place: Investing in Aboriginal Women (NWAC): Database of aboriginal women seeking jobs in Canada. Working with employers in hiring aboriginal women. Job matching; mentoring; cross-cultural training for employers. Recruitment service by the Native Women's Association of Canada.
• Directory of Private Sector Funding for Aboriginal Students: Native students: fund your education, with scholarships, bursaries and awards from schools and businesses. List of funding sources. By Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
• Employment Center (AYN): Aboriginal Youth Network presents job postings, and information on career fairs, internships and starting your own business.
• First People on Schoolnet: Cultural resources, health, languages, learning resources, legal, schools, teachings, youth and links.
• Kagita Makam: Aboriginal Employment and Training -West to Oshawa, East to Ottawa and Northern Areas of Ontario.
• Métis Nation of Ontario: Métis Nation of Ontario offers training programs and employment services for Métis people in Ontario.
• National Aboriginal Organizations: Complete listing of National Aboriginal Organizations, Business, Economic Development, Claims and Treaties, Learning Employment, Environment & National Resources, Health & Social Services, Housing and Infrastructure, Justice and Policing, Language/Heritage & Culture, Policy/Research Statistics, and Provincial and Territorial Information.
• Native Culture Centre: Native Culture Centre for Durham

• Durham Region Unemployed Help Centre: Guidance and support for adults 25 and older in job search techniques, resume and cover letter preparation, searching the hidden job market, career and employment counselling. Site translate to Spanish, German, Portuguese, French or Italian.
• Experienced Workers Information Network: Employed, Unemployed, Underemployed experienced workers (45+)
• Fifty-Plus Net: Is the leading Canadian website that provides information, services and products of interest to people over the age of 50.
• MidLifeMentor.com: This American Web site provides a free informative newsletter on personal and career coaching for women at midlife.
• Old Age Security Program: The Old Age Security program is one of the cornerstones of Canada's retirement income system. Benefits include the basic Old Age Security pension, the Guaranteed
• Senior Job Bank - Canada: Older workers can search the job database and post their resumes for free. For employers, they offer free job posting and access to their resume database.
• Senior Canada Online: A comprehensive Website for seniors related information in Canada. Can search for services and programs available for seniors.
• The Riley Guide: You don't have to be older, just experienced

• Academic Credential Assessment: Internationally Trained Workers - Skilled Newcomers Entering the Workforce can have an Assessment of their Credentials to see how they compare to Ontario education standards.
• Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials: credential assessment process - evaluates your past schooling or work experience to determine what you are qualified to do.
• Centre for Foreign Trained Professionals and Tradespeople (CFTPT): Is a FREE and unique program that assists internationally trained professionals and tradespeople in finding work related to their skills or professional background.
• COSTI: Website that lists available employment programs in Durham, York, Peel and Toronto. It is designed to assist settlement workers & immigrants make appropriate employment referrals.
• E.A. Lovell Adult & Continuing Ed. Centre: Provide English classes for adult immigrants.
• Equal Opportunity, Gateway to Diversity: You can get help with job search, resume writing and the interview process.
• Immigrant Settlement Services: Immigrant Settlement Services, through The Social Development Council of Ajax/Pickering, offers free, confidential, culturally sensitive services to immigrants in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering and other communities in Durham Region.
• Immigrant Women's Job Placement Centre: Assists women of diverse backgrounds in achieving their employment goals. Can look for a job or get training and more.
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: The new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) becomes law on June 28, 2002. Outlines how it affects you, legal details and reference guide.
• Jamaican Canadian Centre: Opportunity Plus
• Occupational Fact Sheets: Hosted by Contact Point, this site contains info of relevance to foreign-trained professionals seeking employment in Canada
• Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): Provides learning and training opportunities for immigrants and refugees so that they can participate in the workplace and wider community
• Settlement Org.: Information and resources for immigrants to Ont/Canada
• World Education Services: Internationally Trained Workers - Skilled Newcomers Entering the Workforce can have an Assessment of their Credentials to see how they compare to Ontario education standards.

• 10 Essentials to Getting That Job: An Employment Guide for Persons with Disabilities: Designed and written for persons with disabilities, provides practical information about the employment process as a whole, labour market information, strategies to get a job, how to match your skills and strength to the right job, as well as information that takes you from the job
• A Safe and Timely Return to Work: A short report promoting Disability Management by employers, aimed primarily at small businesses.
• AccessAbility Services: Explains the services students with permanent or temporary disABILITIES can receive at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
• Accommodation, Training & Networking for Persons with Disabilities: ATN provides pre-employment preparation in the form of computer training, numeracy and literacy upgrading and life/job readiness skills to adults with disabilities living in the London area.
• ATN: ATN is a non-profit, registered charity whose focus is to assist people with disabilities - especially visual impairments and learning disabilities - in the areas of employment and training. Our specialties are computer assisted learning and access technology.
• Bioethics and Disability/human rights: The site deals with bioethic issues and disability issues and provides links to groups related to these two issues.
• Canadian Centre on Disability Studies: Disability Information Network - consumer directed, university-affiliated centre involved in research and education on disability issues.
• Canadian Hearing Society: assist those persons which are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing.
• Canadian National Institute for the Blind: CNIB Library for the Blind
• Disability in the Labour Market: Barriers and Solutions: contains an article excerpted from the Canadian Council on Soc. Dev. Report "Bringing Down the Barriers: The labour market and women with disabilities in Ontario".
• Disability WebLinks: Access to federal, provincial and territorial government programs and related services for persons with disabilities. Information on accessibility, education, employment , financial supports, health, housing and residential supports, personal supports, rights, tax programs and transportation.
• DREN - Durham Region Employment Network: Direct links to local supports for Persons with Disabilities seeking employment.
• GLADNET: Focuses on ways to help achieve equality in training and employment for persons with disabilities
• HRDC: Integration of Persons with Disabilities: reports on the barriers and discrimination that prevent persons with disabilities from participating as equal partners in society.
• HRDC: Workplace Information: reports on recently signed collective agreements that are deemed to contain provisions that are innovative. There are also links to information on supports for workers with disabilities, federal labour laws, labour standards and workplace research.
• Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education (INDIE)
• Learning Disabilities Association of California: This site contains extensive information about learning disabilities.
• Learning Disability Forum: A place to share information on all aspects of learning disabilities.
• Line 1000: Offers placement services for people with disabilities.
• Northern Lights Vocational Services: Wide range of programs and services for persons with disabilities returning to work, and looking for work.
• Ontario Disability Support Program: Income support for persons with disabilities
• Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy: Improving the quality of life for people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities in Ontario.
• Ontario March of Dimes: Ontario March of Dimes is a charitable organization that assists individuals with physical disabilities to achieve a meaningful and dignified life. Through a wide range of programs and services, Ontario March of Dimes enables those with physical disabilities to participate more fully in community life, providing them with the tools they need to enhance their independence.
• Ontario March of Dimes Employment Services: Has a range of services designed to assist people with disabilities to improve their employment opportunities and increase their income potential.
• The Job Accommodation Network: The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is not a job placement service, but an international toll-free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations and the employability of people with disabilities. JAN also provides information regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• The Skill Centre: Offers programs and support to help clients find and keep meaningful employment
• Whitby Mental Health Centre: Six clinical programs for individuals with serious mental illness.
• WindReach Farms: WindReach Farm strives to enrich the lives of persons of all ages with disabilities and/or special needs by providing opportunities to enjoy experiences in farming, nature, outdoor recreation & other activities.
• WORKink: Virtual Employment Centre focusing on the needs of persons with disabilities. Facilitates communication and provides resources and information to enhance the equitable and meaningful employment of people with disabilities.
• WORKink- Ontario: WORKink, The Online Employment Magazine, is an interactive resource for employment and disability issues.
• Workplace Accessibility Tax Incentive: In the 1998 Budget, Ontario announced the Workplace Accessibility Tax Incentive (the "WATI") to support businesses that hire new employees with a disability. Go here to find out more.
• World Association of People with Disabilities: Huge amount of information, articles, and links.

• ACTEW - Women's Training Community: Women can search the employment and training programs directory by type of training, eligibility criteria, or location in Ontario. Training-related job postings. Discussion forum. By Advocates for Community-Based Training and Education for Women (ACTEW), supporting women's community-based training in Ontario.
• Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women: National, feminist organization dedicated to addressing education and training issues for girls and women.
• Canadian Federation of University Women: CFUW are active in public affairs, working to raise the social, economic and legal status of women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace, justice and human rights.
• Canadian Women's Health Network: Sharing information, resources and strategies, and building links to improve women's health.
• Focus for Ethnic Women: Enhances self-esteem, promotes personal empowerment for ethnic women. Many programs, work placement opportunities, and links.
• Webgrrls International: Forum for women interested in new media and technology. Exchange job and business leads; mentor and intern. High tech job search tips.
• Women and Rural Economic Development (WRED): Offers a variety of personal support and other programs such as life skills training, economic literacy training and communication courses.
• Women's Continuing Education on Line: On-Line learning, online courses, and online continuing education for women for career development and personal enrichment.
• Women's Information Networking Directory (WIN); To find, or volunteer as, a career mentor for young women. Directory of women mentors who advise young women, via email, on all careers and professions.
• Women's Institute for Financial Education: Investments, Retirement, Budgets & Planning, Tax Talk, Family Matters,Features & Resource Centre
• Womenspace: Gives you access to magazine, articles and links you to Canadian Women's Internet Directory.
• WRED-Women & Rural Economic Development: Provide programs, for women, that enhance business development, life skills, networking, access to capital, access to information, markets, business diversification including agriculture, and awareness of rural community economic development.

• Campus Access-Internships: A categorized list of Canadian Internships, American Internships and International Internships and organizations. Each organization details their particular Internship and Volunteer opportunities along with contact information.
• Campus Worklink: is Canada's largest job site for university and college students and recent grads.
• Canadian Association of Educators: Career related resources for students and recent grads.
• Canadian Forces - Recruiting: "Jobs in the Canadian Forces" - helps you explore career opportunities with the Canadian Forces, including the Navy, Army and Air Force.
• Canadian International Development Agency: presents a number of opportunities for people that wish to work in the field of international development. People between ages of 19 and 30 can apply to International Youth Internship Program.
• Canadian Youth Business Foundation: Helps young people create their own jobs by starting a business. Financed by the private sector, this non-profit organization was established to solve the problem of youth unemployment and underemployment. The Foundation provides a variety of support programs, including loans and mentoring, in western, central and eastern Canada.
• Canlearn: Welcome to Canada's one-stop resource for the information and interactive planning tools you need to explore learning and education opportunities, research occupations, develop learning strategies, and create the financial plans to achieve your goals.
• CanLearn: an extensive interactive tool that can help you through the process of selecting schools. Can choose to search for relevant programs by subject or by occupation. Also has student planner to help you decide what you want from a career and which career you might be best suited for.
• Career Edge: Career Edge is a private sector not-for-profit organization founded by Canadian employers offering 6, 9, or 12 month internships to recent graduates of university, college and high school.
• Co-op Careers
• DistanceStudies.com: discover the distance education programs available across Canada and the United States.
• Durham College
• Durham Human Resources Centre Canada
• Durham's Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program: Opportunities for High School students to begin Apprenticeship Training
• Durham - University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Exchanges Canada: provides information on more than 250 exchange initiatives and related activities throughout Canada and abroad.
• Firehouse Youth Centre: The Firehouse Youth Centre in Clarington is a non-profit drop-in centre that provides young people with an alternative to hanging out on the streets after school and during the summer. Many activities are available and the youth also have access with staff assistance to services within our building such as housing, employment and 1-1 counseling.
• HRDC-Youth: Youth Internship Canada, Youth Services Canada, Student Summer Job Action
• Job Connect - Durham Region: Job Connect assists unemployed youth in the Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Courtice, Bowmanville, Newcastle, Uxbridge, Port Perry, Beaverton and Port Hope areas gain the skills and knowledge they need in order to find and keep real jobs
• Job Connect - Ministry of Education and Training: A service to assist unemployed people, especially youth: Information and Referral Service (IRS), Employment Planning and Preparation (EPP), On-the-Job Training (OJT)
• Jobs in the Public Service of Canada: Public Service of Canada offers jobs (see "Jobs Open to the Public"). You can look at job postings by field or region. The Public Service Commission (PSC) has an official recruitment campaign to attract new and recent university graduates. They also have seasonal employment through the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) and the Co-op Program.
• Mazemaster: The one stop shop for youth employment! Prepare and post your resume online. Use the job board to find job opportunities and perform job matches. Start your career exploration journey.
• Oshawa Clarington Association for Community Living: Developmental disabled persons who are employed or unemployed - offer pre-employment training, job search supports, some limited job coaching and placement, school to work transition, vocational assessment services.
• Scholarships Canada: allows you to search hundreds of grants, bursaries and different scholarships. Gives advice on applying for scholarships and the effective use of government loans. Great site for students.
• SchoolFinder: Find information on more than 700 Canadian universities, colleges and career colleges, including admission requirements, costs, programs and contact details.
• Self-Assessment via MazeMaster: Three interactive exercises designed to help youth (ages 16 to 29) discover their values, skills and interests.
• Self-Employment via MazeMaster: Site for Toronto's youth, from 16 to 29, covers: Entrepreneurial Traits, Types of Business, Business Plan, Financing, Registration, Taxes and Permits.
• Serve Canada: Serve Canada provides opportunities for youth to develop leadership and teamwork skills and achieve personal growth through community involvement, education and training. We enable diverse young people to achieve their own goals and define their roles as responsible members of society.
• The Edge Magazine: Helps to support and celebrate all career journeys embraced by Youth
• Worldwide Classroom: amazing site for student travellers. Information on any country, currency exchange, travel tips and advice, and schools with international programs.
• Young Entrepreneurs Program: Resources for youth starting their own businesses.
• Youth Business: Where young entrepreneurs come together. Get advice, support and resources about starting your own business.
• Youth Cyberstation-Heritage Canada: site gives you access to hundreds of volunteer opportunities across Canada. Lists of skills that volunteer work can help you develop and advice on showcasing those skills in your resume.
• Youth International Internship Program: Department of Foreign Affairs and International trade - for Canadian youth who would like to work or study abroad.
• Youth Justice Education Partnership: YJEP is a network for building partnerships
• Youth Opportunities Ontario: Links that help youth in their job hunt. Resources include: Ontario Summer Jobs, Ontario Internship Program, Rural Youth Job Strategy, Jobs in Natural Resources, Apprenticeship, Young Entrepreneurs, Job Connect, Career Gateway, Job Market, Ontario Futures, Health and Safety and Rights and Obligations for Working Youth.
• Youth Resource Network: Resources to help youth plan their careers or obtain summer positions. Everything needed to help youth with their job search.

• National committee for Canadian Francophones: French information, statistics, community profiles, cultural events etc.

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