Employment Assistance

It is the only service in the province of PEI to specifically target the employment needs of the offender. Effective assessment of offender’s skills and needs enable the full range of problems experienced by each individual to be understood and the intervention to be tailored to their needs. The service will interview and assess referrals on an on-going basis to identify individual shortcomings to employability.

Upon identifying the barriers, the individual and staff will jointly develop a Return to Work Action Plan (RTWAP) to address the areas of need using intervention offered by the program, this could include:

Human relationship skills:

Self-esteem, communications, assertiveness and the ability to establish a support system, and work with others

Self-management skills:

Problem solving, decision- making, appearance, and the ability to recognize limits, manage addictions, time, stress, anger and money

Planning and goal-setting skills:

The ability to set realistic employment goals, try new things, accept setbacks and adaptability

Employment skills:

Basic skills, job-specific skills, a positive work attitude, independence, initiative, dependability, commitment and the ability to recognize personal strengths

Job search skills:

Preparation for the job search, job interview skills, and the ability to identify and understand the job