Green Team
Program Overview
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The Green Team Program offers youth meaningful employment and skill development opportunities in a supportive team setting. Green Teams focus on local environmental and cultural projects developed in collaboration with communities, organizations, and other partners.
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We provide youth with training opportunities and employment experience through jobs designed to support local environmental and cultural conservation priorities.
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The Green Team Program aims to support community based organizations and municipalities with local conservation activities, meeting self determined needs and serving communities across the province.
Youth
What to expect from the Green Team program…
Teamwork
Collaboration, commununication and conflict resolution are just a few of skills you will develop as a member of a Green Team. Green Teams work on local environmental or cultural conservation projects, collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, community partners and CCNL staff to reach shared goals.
Meaningful Employment
CCNL works with community partners to ensure that all projects will have a meaningful impact on the local area. This means you get to be a part of something that will benefit your community for years to come.
Enhanced Training
CCNL works to equip youth with training and experience that will enhance overall employability. Training throughout the program helps Green Team members develop new and valuable skill sets for the future.
Responsibility
Green Team members are responsible for completing project tasks, managing deadlines and effectively communicating with their their team members and project collaborators. Many Green Team members manage multiple responsibilities in a rewarding and confidence-building environment.
Mentorship
The chain of command employed by CCNL ensures that every employee has someone to rely on at all times. Team members rely on Team Leaders; Team Leaders rely on Regional Supervisors; and everyone is offered support and guidance by CCNL senior staff who are committed to providing all employees with the best experience possible.
Opportunities
The Green Team Program is structured to offer advancement opportunities to returning staff. While not every Green Team member can become a Team Leader, we want to see you succeed and we actively structure our programs to provide stepping stones to reach your goals.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
What to expect from the Green Team program…
Partnership
CCNL is committed to the values and benefits of true partnership. Collaboration and communication ensure that each project’s overall design and implementation meets the needs and standards of all stakeholders.
Teamwork
Green Team size and duration of employment can vary, but most Green Teams consist of four youth, typically with 1 Team Leader and 3 Team Members who will work during the summer season for 8 weeks.
Environment and/or Culture
Green Team projects will focus on the environmental and/or cultural conservation goals of the partner organization. Projects should directly or indirectly benefit the communities in which they take place.
Projects
Project selection takes place in the late winter and early spring each year and is a competitive process. Genuine attempts will be made each year to share Green Team resources throughout the province. Twenty to 25 projects are selected and completed each year.
Training
Youth who are selected to work on Green Teams will attend Green Team Training during the first week of their employment term and periodically throughout the summer. This training will equip them to safely and effectively work on their project and provide a variety of skill development opportunities.
Leadership
CCNL assigns considerable responsibility to the young people on each Green Team in order to strengthen motivation, self-reliance, and leadership. The Team Leader and his/her/their Regional Supervisor will oversee the day-to-day work activities of the Team under the direction of the Regional Supervisor and Community Partner.