WHAT IS PASSPORT TO PROSPERITY?
Passport to Prosperity is a Province wide initiative of the Ontario Ministry of Education designed to increase employer involvement in school-to-work programs for secondary school students. In the Greater Toronto Area, The Learning Partnership delivers Passport to Prosperity to the ten member School Boards.
Passport to Prosperity gives students the opportunity to explore different careers and to prepare themselves for the critical transition from the classroom to the world of work by providing work experiences, career talks, workplace tours, job shadowing and apprenticeship and co-operative education placements.
How can your organization get involved in Passport to Prosperity initiatives?
Your organization can offer many different types of work experiences to high school students. Co-op and short-term work experiences are in particular demand. By getting involved, you can expose students to your organization and your industry sector at a time when students are starting to make long-term career choices.
Having a work experience in high school enables students to:
- Test-drive a career and make better-informed career choices
- Learn about a specific industry and/or career
- Begin to accumulate knowledge necessary for work in a specific industry or workplace
- Gain necessary workplace skills and experience
- Gain satisfaction from doing “real world” work, working with professionals in the field and making contributions to an organization and work team
- Gain self-confidence and belief in one’s potential
- Begin to establish valuable networks with future employers and workplaces
- Accumulate workplace hours for future apprenticeship programs and post-secondary programs
To find out more about the high school Co-op program, click here.
To post any type of work experience opportunity for students on the class2careers.com website, click here.
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