How to Apply
About CAP YI
CAP YI Delivery Structure
CAP YI Across Canada
All existing CAP Sites are eligible to apply for CAP YI funding. All applications for the CAP
Youth Initiative must be sent to the Delivery Organization in each province. You can find these
organizations under CAP YI Across Canada.
CAP Sites applying for youth funding must demonstrate that they can meet both the Criteria for
Youth Interns and Criteria for CAP Sites (below) in order to be successful. The application must be
complete and must contain current information.
Adjudication committees from each province or territory will use the criteria below as a
checklist when reviewing applications for funding from CAP Sites.
Criteria for CAP Sites
- CAP Sites must be open to the public at least 20 hours per week;
- CAP Sites must demonstrate the capacity to directly supervise youth intern;
- CAP Sites must show a need for ICT skills at the CAP Site or network cluster;
- CAP Sites must demonstrate sufficient administrative support and provide adequate workspace
and equipment to the youth intern;
- CAP Sites must provide youth intern with meaningful work related to ICT;
- CAP Sites must provide an appropriate job description for the youth intern that reflects the CAP
Site and community needs; and
- CAP Sites must ensure that the youth intern has email access since most communication from the
Provincial Coordinator is through the Internet.
Criteria for Youth Intern
- Youth must be between the ages of 15 to 30;
- Youth must be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, or is legally entitled to work in Canada;
- Youth must not be collecting Employment Insurance benefits during their internship;
- Youth must be a student intending to return to school full-time after the internship if
hired under the Summer Work Experience; and
- Youth must be a high school graduate with some post-secondary education if hired under Career
Focus stream.
- Priority will be given to youth facing employment barriers - Aboriginal people, members of a
visible minority group, persons with disabilities, and women.
- Priority will be given to first time applicants to the CAP Youth Initiative.
Not eligible are persons who are family members of a CAP Site employee.
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