Programs

Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ISETS)

Drivers Education

Mawachintoon Anishnabe Miijim

Water Treatment Operator Training

Meno Biimadeswin Adult Education & Training Centre (MBAETC) 

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Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ISETS)

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The First Nation Labour Market Strategy, under the ISETS Program will “help close the employment and earning gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people” with “a stronger focus on training for higher quality, better paying jobs rather than rapid re-employment,” as well as assisting “clients to gain greater skills and find jobs that will support their long-term career success.”

2019-2029, 10-year agreement between KKETS and Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, KKETS is one of 22 ISETA holders in Ontario

Meno Biimadeswin Adult Education & Training Centre (MBAETC) 

  • Overview

    The Meno Biimadeswin Adult Education & Training Centre (MBAETC)  is a one-of-a-kind education training program. It is a program specially designed for Matawa First Nation community members. This adult education program helps students to get their high school diploma and the academic credits they need to pursue college, university or skilled trades training.

    Our program supports students both inside and outside the classroom. Therefore it is specific to individual learning styles, cultural, and emotional needs.
    Furthermore, as a Matawa Member, KAEP can help you get the confidence and skills you need to succeed. As a result, you can expect a stress-free transition from education to training and to employment. Above all, you will be led to a career that is right for you.

Mawachintoon Anishnabe Miijim

Overview

The KKETS Mawachintoon Anishnabe Miijim (M.A.M.) Program will continue to foster partnerships between northern and isolated communities, major food banks, and charities as well as continue to strengthen and strengthen food security. Partnerships between isolated communities and food banks, food banks, and other charitable organizations mark an important step towards seeding food sovereignty and reducing food insecurity in the North.

The goal of the M.A.M. program is to assist in the creation of resilient healthy Matawa communities and economies built on land-based programs and abundant local food. By growing healthy people, community, land, food, and economy M.A.M. want to help transform people’s lives by building their confidence, skills, and self-esteem. Ultimately helping members to:

  • Build their skills and self-confidence.
  • Revitalizes the ability of Indigenous nations to be self-sufficient and economically resilient.
  • revitalize the culture of food production in the community.

KKETS Driver Education Program

KKETS Driver Education: This program will prepare clients in safe driving techniques to acquire their full G license. Open to Matawa First Nation members. Applicants will be required to pay a fee for basic driver education courses. You must have a G1 license to start training. This program offers in-class, virtual and in-vehicle training and safety modules to challenge your G2 and G drivers’ exams. This program is set to launch soon. 

Water Treatment Operator Training

This program addresses the critical training gaps in the Matawa First Nation communities with limit access to clean drinking water by supporting the proper operation, maintenance, and oversight of water treatment plants located on-reserve.

Funded by Indigenous Services Canada, and KKETS will train up to 24 participants through the Water Treatment Operator-in-Training (OIT) Program, delivered in partnership with Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Trained operators will play a key role in resolving long-term boil water advisories in four Matawa communities and in helping to prevent future advisories in the remaining five. The four communities currently under long-term advisories include:
Neskantaga First Nation
under advisory since February 1995 (one of the longest in Canada)

Nibinamik First Nation
under advisory since February 2013

Marten Falls First Nation
under advisory since July 2005

Eabametoong First Nation
under advisory since August 2001