Spotlight on Bethesda’s
Summer Students
Bethesda hires summer students through the Canada Summer Jobs program under the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy with the government of Canada. This program aims to provide flexible and holistic services to help all young Canadians develop their skills and gain paid work experience to successfully transition into the labour market.
The Canada Summer Jobs program objectives align with the redesigned Youth Employment and Skills Strategy to provide quality work experiences for youth, respond to national and local priorities to improve access to the labour market, and to provide opportunities for youth to develop and improve their skills.
This program provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations to create quality summer work experiences for people aged 15 to 30 years.
Meet our Summer Students for 2023
Ethan Graham:
We met Ethan at the Town of Lincoln Job Fair. Ethan graduated from the Advanced 3-Year Co-Op Business Administration-Human Resources program from Niagara College.
Ethan comes to us with previous experience from Andrew Peller Limited.
Ethan enjoys long distance running and basketball!
Andrew Stocks
What drew Andrew to Bethesda is our mission statement. Andrew is currently enrolled in the BA Psychology program at the University of Waterloo. Andrew comes to us with previous volunteer experience in retirement residence.
Andrew is a recipient of the Kiwanis Award.
Andrew enjoys running, reading and history.
Simon Yeomans
Simon comes to us with previous facilities experience working in long-term care. Simon is a second-year nursing student at Brock University. Simon is fluent in French and knows some Spanish, Greek and Mandarin.
Simon enjoys chocolate, walks and reading.
*Simon’s placement is not a part of the Canada Summer Jobs Program.
Filzah Afridi
Filzah has been incredibly helpful across multiple programs assisting our Urgent response program staff as well as our Foundational family services program.
Jorja Kenney
Our Respite camps have benefited from Jorja’s ability to quickly get to know children’s interests and adapt accordingly.
Daijah Simpson
We appreciate Daijah’s energy and enthusiasm in our foundational family service summer camps this year!
Catherine Rocca
Catherine has bought her positivity and consistency into our respite camps providing a fun and busy summer to the children in the ASD respite program.