About O-GI

The OFIFC-GREAT Initiative (O-GI) is a partnership between the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC), located in Toronto, and Grand River Employment and Training (GREAT), located in Six Nations.

The Ontario-wide initiative began October 1, 1999 and is specifically designed to provide employment and training service delivery to Aboriginal clients who are not eligible through First Nation, Inuit or Métis agreements, and to provide labour market development services in urban areas where there is a demonstrated need and where no services exist.

O-GI is part of the Government of Canada's Aboriginal Human Resources Development Strategy (AHRDS), which is designed to help Aboriginal people prepare for, obtain, and keep jobs.

O-GI has a network of Local Delivery Mechanisms (LDM's) who administer program intervention dollars to O-GI's 26 Employment Units to fund eligible clients for employment and training programs.

O-GI Staff

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Vision Statement

To provide strength, promote self reliance, enhance the unity of our people, and improve opportunities for meaningful employment through self determined activities and building employment and training capacity, now and seven generations into the future.

Mission Statement

The OFIFC and GREAT will enter into a formal partnership to share their expertise and commitment in building an employment and training service delivery system, for our people, institutions and organizations, which is based on a principled, client focused approach, that is respectful of our cultural ways and which establishes Friendship Centres as permanent service delivery sites for program and service interventions to eligible unaffiliated/urban clients.