Youth Employment and Skills Program: 1. What this program offers

• First Nations, Inuit and Métis are three main Indigenous groups the program aims to serve better in the labour market
• A youth may self-identify as belonging to more than one of these three Indigenous groups
• The program serves all of the Indigenous subgroups, including Non-Status First Nations

Disability means any impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment — or a functional limitation — whether permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, or evident or not, that, in interaction with a barrier, hinders a person's full and equal participation in society.

Racialized youth are a group of people categorized according to ethnic/cultural characteristics and subjected to structural discrimination. The use of the term "racialized" acknowledges that race is a social construct that can negatively impact a person's social, political and economic life. Examples include: Black, East Asian, Latino/Latina/Latinx, Middle Eastern and/or North African, Pacific Islander, South Asian, Southeast Asian, mixed, another identity, etc.

A newcomer youth has arrived in Canada within the last five (5) years. To meet the program's criteria, newcomer youth must also have permanent resident status or permanent refugee status in Canada.

2SLGBTQQIA+ is the acronym used to refer to the community of individuals in Canada who self-identify as Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and additional sexually and gender diverse people.

OLMCs are defined by both their geographic location and collective identity associated with the use of an official language in a minority setting. A resident of an OLMC is an individual whose first official language is not the majority language in their province or territory. This includes:

• a Francophone residing outside of Quebec
• an Anglophone residing in Quebec

The program recognizes that the lines separating remote, northern, and fly-in communities are not clear, and often overlap. For simplicity:

• a remote community is defined as one with no or little access to the services of the closest community with more than 1,000 residents and/or one that is without year-round road access
• a northern community is considered to be any community in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon
• a fly-in community refers to any community that requires scheduled or chartered flights to enter or leave for most of the year

The program uses Statistics Canada's Low income measure (LIM) thresholds by income source and household size (after tax):

• for a 1 person household: $30,255 or less
• for a 2 person household: $42,787 or less (for example, a child and one (1) parent/guardian)
• for a 3 person household: $52,403 or less
• for a 4 person household: $60,510 or less
• for a 5 person household: $67,652 or less
• for a 6 person household: $74,109 or less
• for a 7 person household: $80,047 or less
• for an 8 person household: $85,574 or less
• for a 9 person household: $90,765 or less
• for a 10 person household: $95,675 or less

The youth participant is the parent in a family containing only one (1) parent with their child(ren). This can include a single parent who has full or partial custody of their child(ren).

A person who has not completed the final year of secondary school (high school), and/or has not received their high school diploma (or an equivalent level of education). They are not to be in school full-time and have no intention to be in the near future.