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:

Tanya Reddick Clayton
Building Futures for Youth Program Lead
T: 902-468-2267
C: 902-456-6444
E: treddick@cans.ns.ca

Barb Minard
Building Futures for Youth Program Lead
T: 902-468-2267 ext. 724
C: 902-817-5214
E: bminard@cans.ns.ca