Youth With Disabilities

Aboriginal Youth

 

Barriers to Employment

 

  • Aboriginal women deciding on a career in skilled trades face a double barrier combining cultural and gender-specific challenges. (Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, p28).

     

  • There is a lack of funding for apprenticeship and introductory training within First Nations.

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  • The cost of training, including tuition fees, textbooks and materials, and travel and living costs, present key barriers to participating in the training of an apprenticeship

    • (Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, p33).

     

  • In many high schools attended by Aboriginals, there is a shortage of trades programs, equipment,curriculum and teachers.

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  • This barrier is aparticular concern with regard to First Nationsschools in northern regions and rural areas ofCanada. (Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, p39).

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  • Many mental health problems of Aboriginals arise from a long history of colonization, residential school trauma, discrimination and oppression, loss of land, language and livelihood (About Mental Health: Canadian mental health association- Aboriginal People/First Nations).

 

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