Education and Training
- Abenaki Associates
- As an Aboriginal business, their mission is to deliver services to First Nations and related entities; government agencies and organizations that will support the expanding management needs of First Nations.
- Aboriginal Cadet Development Program
- Aboriginal Cadet Development program is a program for Aborigianl people. The Cadet will return to their local detatchment to participate in a mandatory program until they have satisfatorilly passed admission requirements.
Source: Government of Canada; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- Aboriginal Digital Opportunities Addressing Aboriginal Learning Needs Through the Use of Learning Technologies, September 2001 (PDF)
- Identifies the issues and challenges faced by Aboriginal communities when using learning technologies for education and skills development and the approaches they are adopting to develop digital opportunities.
Source: Government of Canada; Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)
- Aboriginal Education Survey – Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
- Source: University of Toronto
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada
- Focuses on the capacity development and day to day needs of those Aboriginal professionals who are working in all areas of finance, administration and management – today's leaders and those of the future.
- Aboriginal Human Resource Council
- Their mission is to see full participation of Aboriginal people in Canadian labour markets by pioneering new ways to increase skills and training opportunities for Aboriginal people in Canada.
- Aboriginal Leadership Institute Inc.
- Non-profit organization established to build leadership capacity in Canadian Aboriginal people that works closely with educational institutes, governments and the private sector.
- Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
- Source: Canadian Council on Learning
- Aboriginal Population – 1996 Census Results Teacher's Kit
- Provide students with a better understanding of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, and allows students to build interpretive skills by working with graphs and data.
Source: Government of Canada; Statistics Canada (SC)
- Aboriginal School Books – First Language Children's Literature
- The books Nortext helps publish are almost always in first languages containing stories and illustrations created in the communities by Aboriginal authors and illustrators.
- Source: Nortext
- Aboriginal Training
- The program is used for pre-employment training for aboriginal people to assist them to find employment and to introduce knowledgeable workers into the health care industry.
- Source: Visions En Route Consulting
- Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices
- Offers Aboriginal participants professional and technical training in museum practices while providing the opportunity to work in both official languages.
Source: Government of Canada; Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC)
- AFOA Fellowship Programs
- Source: Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada
- Bridging Aboriginal Digital and Learning Divides, May 2002 (PDF)
- Provides an assessment of the role of Office of Learning Technologies' (OLT) programs in meeting the learning needs and challenges of Aboriginal Canadians and their communities.
Source: Government of Canada; Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)
- Canada's Polar Life
- This site is just one element in their integrated package of educational materials examining Canada's Arctic environments and the organisms that occur in them.
- Source: University of Guelph
- Canadian Aboriginal Science and Technology Society
- Assists Aboriginal students of all ages in Canada to enter, remain, and excel in the sciences while maintaining respect for their traditional culture and knowledge.
- CINE's Community Courses
- Based on the short courses in nutrition given face-to-face with participants in Dene/Métis, Yukon First Nations and Inuit communities, since 1995.
- Source: Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
- Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers
- The Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) provides a national body that focuses on the training, education and networking opportunities necessary to serve their communities and/or organizations as professionals.
- Education
- This page lists several INAC's programs, services and documents related to Aboriginal education.
Source: Government of Canada; Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
- E–Spirit National Aboriginal Youth Business Plan Competition
- Designed to increase Aboriginal youth participants' awareness of entrepreneurial/business opportunities, management/business skills, and e-commerce and technological capacities.
Source: Government of Canada; Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
- First Nations
- Series of links to elementary ressources pertaining to various First Nations issues.
- Source: CanTeach
- First Nations and Inuit Youth Employment Strategy
- This site lists a number of programs which are designed to give First Nations and Inuit youth what they need to prepare for and participate in the world of work.
Source: Government of Canada; Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
- First Nations SchoolNet Program
- Links to the six non-profit Regional Management Organizations who worked with Industry Canada to deliver the program to First Nations schools.
Source: Government of Canada; Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
- FirstVoices – Language Archives Celebrating World Indigenous Cultures
- FirstVoices is a group of web-based tools and services designed to support Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching & culture revitalization.
- Giwaykiwin Native Programs (15 years and over)
- Giwaykiwin courses combine the philosophy of Outward Bound with the values and teachings reflected in the Aboriginal community.
- Source: Outward Bound Canada
- Health Careers, Education and Training
- This page was compiled by the Information Centre on Aboriginal Health, and provides numerous links to information on health careers, education and training for prospective Aboriginal students.
- Source: Information Centre on Aboriginal Health
- Housing Internship Initiative for First Nations and Inuit Youth
- Housing Internship Initiative for First nations and Inuit Young People gives Inuit youth the oppotunity to build houses. It also porvides a chance for aboriginal youth to persue long term employment in the housing industry
Source: Government of Canada; Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
- Junior Canadian Ranger Programme (12 to 18 years old)
- Offers young people in remote and isolated communities across Canada a unique opportunity to participate in a variety of fun and rewarding activities in a formal setting.
Source: Government of Canada; National Defence and the Canadian Forces (DND/CF)
- Kids from Kanata
- Seeks to develop supportive and respectful cross-cultural relationships between Native and non-Native communities through a process of historical education, an evaluation of current realities and visions, etc.
- Making it Work! – Aboriginal Participation of Apprenticeship (PDF)
- This report contains 36 recommendations and an action plan, and is intended to stimulate the establishment of new "apprenticeship partnerships" and the implementation of new initiatives and Aboriginal apprenticeship projects.
Source: Government of Yukon; Education
- National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
- NAAF promotes the development and education of Aboriginal peoples and their professional advancement in Canadian society through the implementation of four initiatives.
- National Association of Indigenous Institutes of Higher Learning
- It is an exercise of self-determination to meet community needs, and addresses the development of self-realization through the promotion and enhancement of Indigenous languages and cultures.
- National Indigenous Literacy Association
- Native Access to Engineering Programme – Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
- Looks at ways to address the low participation rate of Aboriginal people within the applied sciences in Canada.
- Source: Concordia University
- Native Canadians Specialty Group
- The Native Canadians Specialty Group brings together geographers who are interested in conducting Aboriginal-specific research.
- Source: Canadian Association of Geographers
- Native Law Centre of Canada
- This site contains general information on the Centre, the staff, the projects and the publications.
- Source: University of Saskatchewan
- Resources for Learning – Aboriginal Literacy
- Hands-on resource oriented to aboriginal literacy practitioners, educators and advocates who are working to strengthen the resource base of Aboriginal literacy programming in Canada.
- Source: National Adult Literacy Database (NALD)
- Strings Across the Sky
- Since 1988 Strings Across the Sky (SATS) has been working with youth in the High Arctic teaching them to fiddle.
- TeKnoWave (National Aboriginal Information Technology Training and Education Program)
- Non-profit corporation that oversees the delivery of IT, business and sustainable energy training programs which create the essential technical and managerial capacity within the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations.
For more information on programs and services available to all Canadians, please visit the following Web sites: Services for Canadians – Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers and Youth.