Assistance is available namely for Employment placement, Career Counseling, Self-employment assistance, Training and upgrading, Targeted wage.

Community Based Programs have more than 11 initiatives: 

Institutional training
Enable individuals without employment to receive institutional vocational training leading to a form of accreditation.

On the job training
Enable individuals who are employed to acquire the additional vocational skills needed to adapt to new functions, or functions that have altered, as a result of technological or market changes.  

Targeted wage subsidies
Encourage employers to hire individuals they would not normally hire in the absence of a subsidy. Many other initiatives are also available.

Funding
Depending on the type of programs, funding is available namely for:

• Salaries
• Training fees (tuition, material, etc.)
• Training allowance
• Travel expenses

• Cree and non-Cree individuals (unemployed or employed)
• Any organization (business, partnership, society, band council, agency, non-profit organization, etc. not necessarily owned by a Cree beneficiary).