What can we do for you?
You represent an organization or business and you want to hire First Nations workers!
You represent a governmental, parapublic, or public organization and you want support to design new strategies for training and hiring First Nations workers!
Whether your project is regional or province-wide, we invite you to contact the FNHRDCQ Regional Office. The Regional Office staff will be able to guide you in your approach.
Local First Nations Commissions (LFNC)
In order to ensure quality service to the First Nations clientele served by the FNHRDCQ, each of the twenty-two member organizations provides front-line services to its own clientele.
As the appended list of member organizations demonstrates, most of the First Nations served by the FNHRDCQ have established their own service. A small minority of the member communities have decided to form associations.
Three Algonquin bands in Abitibi – the communities of Abitibiwinni, Kitcisakik and Lac Simon – formed the Abitibi Algonquin Human Resources Development Commission (CDRHAA) and six North Shore Innu formed the North Shore Local Commission.
The Innu Nations that participate in this group are:
To locate your Local First Nations Commission, please click here.
Services offered by the LFNCs
As explained above, the main role of the LFNCs is to offer their respective communities training and job development services that promote short or medium-term integration into the on- and off-reserve job market.
To this end, the FNHRDCQ members have developed a panoply of measures to provide facilitating tools to the target clientele.
These measures are grouped under three headings:
A- Support and guidance measures:
A-1 : Information about the job market:
To provide documentation, job notice boards, etc.
A-2 : Professional resources:
To offer professional resources that can help the clients develop professional integration strategies.
A-3 : Research and development:
To allow the Local Boards to support and develop methods for adapting or adopting innovative approaches to improve current situations.
B- Training and professional development measures:
B-1 : Professional training:
To enable individual clients or groups of clients to acquire the professional competencies required for a specific job.
B-2 : General academic training:
To allow clients to increase their competencies in order to get a job or begin a career, or finish their secondary studies in order to undertake post-secondary training or re-enter the labour force.
B-3 : On-the-job training:
To permit employed clients to increase their competencies in order to remain competitive on the job market. It also allows employers to train new employees.
C- : Employability measures:
C-1 : Job creation initiative:
To provide employers with incentives to help clients re-enter the workforce and acquire sufficient work experience.
C-2 : Self-employment assistance
To provide clients who want to start their own business with financial assistance during the first year of business operation.
Every LFNC that is a member of the FNHRDCQ also has a budget to provide support services for job-market reintegration and to provide financial support for specific action plans that may be developed for individual clients.
It goes without saying that the measures proposed must mesh with the priorities determined in each community served by the FNHRDCQ.
The clienteles served by the LFNCs are:
Urban client services
The recent population explosion among the First Nations of Quebec, the difficulty of finding jobs in Aboriginal communities, and the need to pursue education has led many members of Quebec’s First Nations to move to large urban centres.
For the past few years, the AFNQL representatives have been working to make HRDC aware of this new reality. In 1999, these efforts led to the signing of a special agreement between HRDC and the AFNQL to implement services for urban First Nations clients.
HRDC’s financing of urban services is a continuation of efforts begun several years earlier by the AFNQL which, already at the time of Pathways to Success, had established urban service centres in the Quebec City and Montreal areas.
The urban service agreement between the AFNQL and HRDC is unusual in that it makes the AFNQL responsible for the delivery of services to the entire urban Aboriginal population, whether they are from Quebec or another Canadian province.
Since the signing of the agreement, Urban Service Points have been established in Montreal, Quebec City, Sept-Îles and Val-d’Or. Urban clients residing in a region where there are no FNHRDCQ urban services can access the service by contacting their nearest LFNC, since the FNHRDCQ-member LFNCs have agreed to serve this clientele as well.
The urban services mandate is similar to the work carried out by the Local First Nations Commissions.
As the management of the urban services is centralized in the FNHRDCQ Regional Office, we invite any individuals, organizations or businesses interested in hiring First Nations workers to contact the office.
For details on the Urban Aboriginal Strategy, please click here.
Employment Insurance Service (EIS)
The Employment Insurance Service (EIS) of the First Nations Human Resources Development Commission of Quebec (FNHRDCQ) is mandated to help Local First Nations Commissions (LFNCs) provide employment and training support services. To be more precise, EIS ensures the optimal use of employment insurance funds in achieving the targets stated in the Aboriginal Human Resources Agreement.
For details on the Employment Insurance Service (EIS) , please click here.
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