HippoHub Indigenous Employability Job Readiness Program

Program Benefits

2, 4 and 8 Week Program Options

For First Nations, Métis and Inuit

For Ages 15-30

Join Class Online from Anywhere

Multiple Career Choices

Work Placement Support

Instructors & Guest Speakers

Video-Based eLearning

Elder Honorariums

Program History

HippoHub

Hippohub programs include Virtual and Onsite Delivery to support both Urban and On reserve Members.

Job Pathway

Hippohub added HippoHub Job Pathways to give more choices for careers for participants.

Life Skills

Hippohub now customized Life Skills to include Nations Language and Culture & Elder Teachers with Honorarium.

Traditional Skills FreshMinds

Traditional Life Skills

The learner will develop their knowledge traditional life skills based on the medicine wheel, teaching the need to balance all four aspects of our being – the spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental aspects.

Elder Honorariums Guests will lead learners to provide spiritual knowledge and guidance.

✔️ Bring an Elder to talk about the Spiritual side of the Medicine Wheel.

✔️ Why is it important to have spiritual and cultural tools.

✔️ Understanding your calling, purpose and mission..

✔️ Bring an Elder to talk about inter-generational impacts of colonization.

✔️ Post-Trauma and related Stress.

✔️ Emotional Intelligence.

✔️ Anger Management.

✔️ How to deal with conflicts.

✔️ Coping Skills.

✔️ Self-Control.

✔️ Alcohol and Substance Abuse Awareness.

✔️ Self-harm.

✔️ Self-care (Sleep & Hygiene)

  • How to beat insomnia.
  • How much sleep do you need?
  • Sleep hygiene.

✔️ Self-discipline (Exercise and Nutrition)

  • Blood pressure.
  • Body mass index.
  • Brain food.
  • Ergonomics.

✔️ Meal Planning and Nutritional Eating.

  • Budget sample.
  • Convenience store diet.
  • Don’t be a Calvin! (Dealing with allergies)
  • How to save at home.
  • Meal planning.

✔️ Sustainable Kitchen

✔️ Personal Awareness.

✔️ Stress Management.

✔️ Adjusting your workspace.

✔️ Avoidable stress.

✔️ Building confidence.

✔️ Digital stress and addiction.

✔️Managing time vs. energy.

✔️Mental health.

✔️ Opioid addiction.

✔️ Optimizing work-life balance.

✔️ The importance of living a balanced life.

✔️ Using the teachings of the Medicine Wheel in your daily life.

Modern Life Skills

The learner will develop their knowledge modern life skills such as financial literacy, time management, communication, and technology to support in making informed decisions, solving problems, and thinking critically and creatively.

These skills will help them build healthy relationships, empathise with others and cope with and manage their lives in a healthy and productive way.

✔️ How to Open a Bank Acct.

✔️ How to Balance a Bank Acct.

✔️ Savings.

✔️ Budgeting and Money Management.

✔️ Online Banking.

✔️ Make a Deposit.

✔️ Use the ATM.

✔️ Write a Cheque.

✔️ Make a Withdraw.

✔️ Pay Bills.

✔️ Avoid / Get out of Debt.

✔️ Major purchases (Home, Car…).

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Active Listening.

✔️ Assertiveness.

✔️ Negotiation.

✔️ Conversational Skills.

✔️ Communicating Your Own Needs.

✔️ Body Language.

✔️ Properly Ask Questions.

✔️ Effective Communication.

✔️ Public Speaking.

✔️ Communicate Properly with Co-Workers, Supervisors and Customers.

✔️ Humour.

✔️ How to Give and Receive Feedback, Compliments and Criticism.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Prepare ahead for the Day/Week.

✔️ Time Management.

✔️ Be on Time.

✔️ How to Keep Yourself Organized.

✔️ Prioritize Tasks.

✔️ How to Use Calendar, Scheduling and Set up Reminders.

✔️ How to Focus.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Email.

✔️ Internet Usage.

✔️ Social Media Usage.

✔️ How to Back up Files.

✔️ How to Protect Passwords.

✔️ How to Research on Google.

✔️ Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Excel.

✔️ Word.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

Job Readiness Skills

The learner will develop job readiness skills for dealing with co-workers and managers, critical thinking, social skills, and other personal skills to succeed in their job.

✔️ Math Skills.

✔️ Writing Skills.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Personal Boundaries.

✔️ Working as Part of a Team.

✔️ Basic Etiquette.

✔️ How to Dress Appropriately.

✔️ Absence from Work.

✔️ Keeping your Work Environment Clean.

✔️ Interpersonal Skills.

✔️ Networking.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Multitasking.

✔️ Commitment.

✔️ Responsibility.

✔️ Initiative.

✔️ Plan, Take Action and Evaluate Results.

✔️ Filling Management.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Dealing with Conflict.

✔️ Effective Negotiation.

✔️ Critical Thinking.

✔️ Problem Solving.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ How to Deal with Your Co-Workers.

✔️ Gossip in the Workplace.

✔️ How to Deal with Your Boss.

✔️ Work Relationships.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

Career Planning

The learner will prepare to find a job with courses on business attire for men and women, business writing, and email etiquette.

This includes courses on soft skills that will help the new hire adjust to office life and interpersonal dynamics.

Covering topics such as keeping your cool, office perceptions, collaboration, and accountability.

✔️ What are the Tools we use for Job Search.

✔️ Creating your profile on LinkedIn.

✔️ How to Connect with the Right People on LinkedIn.

✔️ How to Properly Search for Jobs Using the Right Tools.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ How to Prepare a Job Application.

✔️ How to Submit a Job Application.

✔️ How to Follow up Once You Send a Job Application.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ What Should You Include on Your Resume.

✔️ How to Write Your Resume.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ Researching the Company You’ve Applied For.

✔️ Picking the Right Outfit for the Job Interview.

✔️ Preparing for a Job Interview.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

✔️ How to Keep Your Anxiety Levels Down.

✔️ Answering Questions Clearly.

✔️ Practicing Job Interview.

💻 Interactive Workshop.

Safety

The learner will develop skills and knowledge, to perform their tasks and procedures in ways that are safe for them and their colleagues.

 This also includes specific instructions and guidelines to help them identify, report, and manage hazards and incidents in the workplace. 

FreshMinds - Safety

✔️ First Aid.

✔️ Fundamentals – First Aid.

✔️ Choking – First Aid.

✔️ Environmental Emergencies – First Aid.

✔️ Medical Emergencies – First Aid.

✔️ Identify the function and use of food thermometers during cooking.

✔️ Identify the steps in calibrating a food thermometer.

✔️ Recognize adequate cooking times and temperatures for a variety of foods.

✔️ Identify how to take a proper temperature.

✔️ Recognize when and how to keep food thermometers sanitized.

✔️ Define contamination, including the three types of contamination.

✔️ Identify how to prevent contamination during receiving and storage.

✔️ Identify how to prevent contamination during preparation and service.

✔️ Identify how to prevent contamination from the environment.

✔️ Identify how to prevent contamination from people.

✔️ Define the food temperature danger zone.

✔️ Identify foods that will and will not support the rapid growth of harmful bacteria.

✔️ Identify Proper Methods to Keep Cold Food Cold.

✔️ Identify Proper Methods to Keep Hot Foods Hot.

✔️ Identify Methods to Properly Cool Hot Food for Later Service.

✔️ Introduction to HACCP.

✔️ Pre-Requisites to HACCP.

✔️ Biological Hazards and Controls

✔️ Chemical Hazards and Controls

✔️ Physical Hazards and Controls.

✔️ Initial and Preliminary Tasks.

✔️ Hazard Analysis.

✔️ Critical Control Points.

✔️ Critical Limits.

✔️ Monitoring Critical Control Points.

✔️ Corrective Actions.

✔️ Verification Procedures.

✔️ Recordkeeping.

✔️ WHMIS.

✔️ Fire Extinguisher Safety (Portable).

✔️ Emergency and Fire Safety Preparedness.

✔️ List and describe the properties of hydrogen sulfide.

✔️ Describe how hydrogen sulfide is created, where it occurs, and the industries in which it is used.

✔️ Describe the methods used to detect, monitor and warn of hydrogen sulfide.

✔️ Describe the physical and health hazards of hydrogen sulfide.

✔️ Describe the appropriate responses to hydrogen sulfide exposures and emergencies.

✔️ Hand and Power Tools.

✔️ Hand Safety.

✔️ Fundamentals – PPE.

✔️ Ladder Safety.

✔️ Scaffold Safety.

✔️ Fall Protection – Construction.

✔️ Slips, Trips, and Falls.

✔️ Driving Safety: Aggressive Driving.

✔️ Driving Safety: Driving Distractions.

✔️ Driving Safety: Bad Weather Driving.

✔️ Driving Safety: Harsh Braking and Acceleration.

Jobs Overview

In this module the learner will first develop their knowledge on diversity, and inclusion to encourage and support them in recognizing and addressing bias, racism, discrimination, and harassment.

This will support the overall improvement of cultural competence, path to reconciliation and promote advancement in the workplace. 

Subject matter experts will provide an overview of the employment opportunities available within their community and outside with employment partners.

FredshMinds - Job Overview

✔️ People first.

✔️ Creating civility in the workplace: Everyone’s responsibility.

✔️ Avoiding discrimination: 5 keys.

✔️ Micro Aggressions.

✔️ Cross-Cultural Considerations: What is culture?

✔️ Cross-Cultural Considerations: What is your culture?

✔️ Cross-Cultural Considerations: Cultural intelligence.

✔️ Cross-Cultural Considerations: Workplace basics.

✔️ Cross-Cultural Considerations: The concept of time.

✔️ LGBTQ in the Workplace: Understanding pronouns.

✔️ LGBTQ in the Workplace: Gender identity vs. sexual orientation.

✔️ Anti-Racism: Calling in and calling out.

✔️ Anti-Racism: Learning to listen and listening to learn.

✔️ Anti-Racism: Maintaining momentum.

✔️ Anti-Racism: Mitigating bias.

✔️ Isms: Exploring isms in the workplace.

✔️ Isms: Overcoming isms in the workplace.

✔️ Isms: Avoiding isms in the workplace.

✔️ Unconscious Bias: What is unconscious bias?

✔️ Unconscious Bias: Types of unconscious bias.

✔️ Unconscious Bias: Overcoming unconscious bias.

✔️ Working Well with Everyone: What is diversity?

✔️ Working Well with Everyone: The diversity continuum.

✔️ Working Well with Everyone: The mistake of stereotyping.

✔️ Working Well with Everyone: The power of inclusion.

✔️ Working Well with Everyone: Diversity = greatness.

✔️ Hospitality and Food.

✔️ Administrative Assistant and Receptionist.

✔️ Marketing.

✔️ Sales.

✔️ Mining.

✔️ Environmental Monitoring.

✔️ Laborer.

✔️ Elder Care Support Worker.

✔️ Medical Transportation.

Development Job Skills FreshMinds 3

Job Skills Development

In this module, the learner will complete the job-specific skills for their job choice.

Upon completion of the job-specific skill training, they will be interviewed by various employers.

✔️ Hospitality and Food.

✔️ Administrative Assistant and Receptionist.

✔️ Marketing.

✔️ Sales.

✔️ Mining.

✔️ Environmental Monitoring.

✔️ Laborer.

✔️ Elder Care Support Worker.

✔️ Medical Transportation.

We can customize to the jobs that are important to your community.

Bringing employment to your members.

Our Team & Staff

"Greater Need for Traditional Nutritional Food Choices"

Danika Koopmans is the founder of Health Intentionally which provides people with the knowledge and tools to create sustainably healthy lifestyle changes regardless of any pre-existing condition they may or may not have.

She believes that when we feel good inside our body, we can further improve the lives of those around us and create a vibrant and abundant life!

Danika is a Family Nurse Practitioner and new mom to Aurora Jane 1 year baby girl.

Through her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and amidst studying to be a family nurse practitioner, she spent countless hours studying the effects of food on the body.

When she learned the importance of nutrition and its role in healing the body, she created her company Health Intentionally, where she now serves 100’s of individuals online in various capacities including through one on one, and group consultations, coaching, and seminars.

"An urgent need for trauma-informed skills"

Dr. Namara Gibram, Fresh Minds Instructor, prolific scholar, has a PhD in clinical psychology and over 25 years of practice.

With a current focus on helping decolonize mental health with integrating Traditional & Essential Life Skills into the Fresh Minds program to support individuals dealing with depression, suicide, grief & loss, anger, and abuse.

"Build businesses for communities future generations."

Torbin Mustooch, Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, Fresh Minds Director.

With a passion for mentoring communities and giving learning and employment choices to communities, empowering them to live a healthy lifestyle, and building businesses for future generations.

"Digital Careers can allow for individuals to work from their Nation to support companies across Canada."

Mayra Michaud, Fresh Minds Instructor, Master's in Marketing, Degree in Public Relationships with a passion for working with communities' to transform lives through building digital skills careers.

"With knowledge, one's potential or ability to succeed in the pursuit of one's objectives will certainly increase."

Trent Shott, Ft McKay First Nation, son of Chief Peter Powder Mikisew Cree First Nations, and Fresh Minds Director.

With the belief that with knowledge, one's potential or ability to succeed in pursuing one's objectives will undoubtedly increase.

"Trades program provide access to a better life."

Andrew Rivet, Metis, Fresh Minds Instructor, Red Seal Certified Electrician, Electrical Masters Certification, and with a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources from the University of Lethbridge.

Andy is passionate about helping communities and youth develop knowledge and skills for entry into the trades field.

Our Team & Staff

"Greater Need for Traditional Nutritional Food Choices"

Danika Koopmans is the founder of Health Intentionally which provides people with the knowledge and tools to create sustainably healthy lifestyle changes regardless of any pre-existing condition they may or may not have.

She believes that when we feel good inside our body, we can further improve the lives of those around us and create a vibrant and abundant life!

Danika is a Family Nurse Practitioner and new mom to Aurora Jane 1 year baby girl.

Through her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and amidst studying to be a family nurse practitioner, she spent countless hours studying the effects of food on the body.

When she learned the importance of nutrition and its role in healing the body, she created her company Health Intentionally, where she now serves 100’s of individuals online in various capacities including through one on one, and group consultations, coaching, and seminars.

"An urgent need for trauma-informed skills"

Dr. Namara Gibram, Fresh Minds Instructor, prolific scholar, has a PhD in clinical psychology and over 25 years of practice.

With a current focus on helping decolonize mental health with integrating Traditional & Essential Life Skills into the Fresh Minds program to support individuals dealing with depression, suicide, grief & loss, anger, and abuse.

"Trades program provide access to a better life."

Andrew Rivet, Metis, Fresh Minds Instructor, Red Seal Certified Electrician, Electrical Masters Certification, and with a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources from the University of Lethbridge.

Andy is passionate about helping communities and youth develop knowledge and skills for entry into the trades field.

"Digital Careers can allow for individuals to work from their Nation to support companies across Canada."

Mayra Michaud, Fresh Minds Instructor, Master's in Marketing, Degree in Public Relationships with a passion for working with communities' to transform lives through building digital skills careers.

"Build businesses for communities future generations."

Torbin Mustooch, Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, Fresh Minds Director.

With a passion for mentoring communities and giving learning and employment choices to communities, empowering them to live a healthy lifestyle, and building businesses for future generations.

"With knowledge, one's potential or ability to succeed in the pursuit of one's objectives will certainly increase."

Trent Shott, Ft McKay First Nation, son of Chief Peter Powder Mikisew Cree First Nations, and Fresh Minds Director.

With the belief that with knowledge, one's potential or ability to succeed in pursuing one's objectives will undoubtedly increase.

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