Get a head start on your personal and professional development or gain access to Indigenous perspectives to help grow your organization
Future Wabanaki is a partnership between NB employers, universities, Indigenous students, and the Government of New Brunswick. It works to ensure that Indigenous university students have equal access to meaningful and valuable real experiences with local employers, while connecting employers with top New Brunswick talent.
These are not just jobs, and experiential learning has been a part of the Wabanaki people here since time immemorial. Hands-on, pride fulfilling, and culture-based ideologies must come into play for an Indigenous student to succeed in their career and in life. This is part of the holistic way the Wabanaki people believe will bring forth true success.
How Future Wabanaki can help:
Students
- Build a stronger bridge between your academic learning and real work through a variety of experiential learning opportunities on or off-campus
- Connect directly with New Brunswick employers earlier, increasing your ability to attain meaningful careers in the province upon graduation.
- Gain skills and competencies you will need to remain competitive while responding to the labour market demands throughout the province.
Employers
- Connect directly with students to recruit and retain skilled, tech-savvy talent to your organization.
- Increase your ability to resource and staff new projects or positions and drive innovation in your organization.
- Strengthen the skills and competencies of the future labour force and develop insight into the future of New Brunswick’s labour market.
Want to Learn More?
Reach out today and find out how Future Wabanaki can help.
How else can Future Wabanaki help you?
Support is available to remove some of the barriers that would impede Indigenous university students from accessing an experiential learning opportunity or an employer from offering an experience. Depending on the opportunity, a student may qualify for support under one or more of the following categories:
Wage Subsidies
Childcare
Travel Costs
Equipment
Training
What could my experience look like?
Everything you need to know about Future Wabanaki.
Work-Integrated Learning
Course-Based
Applied Research
Co-curricular Development: (categories in this area will be unique to each institution): This category may include (but is not limited to) elements such as competitions, showcases, symposia, conferences, events, work-study, or other forms of experiential education that adhere to CEWIL and the National Society for Experiential Education.
Am I Eligible?
Students Must
- Be a registered full or part-time student
- Be of Indigenous Ancestry
- Participate in meetings and focus groups and complete reflective holistic evaluations, as required
If you have any questions about your eligibility, please reach out to one of our coordinators.
Employers Must
- Be operating in New Brunswick
- Be willing and open to champion cultural sensitivity in the workplace
- Demonstrate investment towards the Indigenous student's placement
- Provide adequate supervision, training and mentoring
- Participate in surveys, focus groups and consultations, as required
I want in! What comes next?
As a student or as an employer wanting to apply, please contact the Future Wabanaki lead at your University to get started today!
Chelsea Harris-Carr
St.Thomas University
- Future Wabanaki Coordinator-Indigenous Initiatives
- charriscarr@stu.ca
- Visit website
Kate Copage
University of New Brunswick
- Indigenous Experiential Education Coordinator
- copage.k@unb.ca
- Visit website
Shayne Michael Thériault
Université de Moncton
- Indigenous Experiential Learning Coordinator
- shayne.michael.theriault@umoncton.ca
- Visit website
Future / Avenir Wabanaki
Mount Allison University
- Future Wabanaki/Avenir Wabanaki
- studentlife@mta.ca
- Visit website