About
About YES Manitoba
For more than 50 years, YES Manitoba has helped young people across Manitoba take their next step toward employment, education, and career success.
As a registered charity, we provide free employment and career services for youth ages 16 to 29, offering personalized support, practical resources, skills development opportunities, and connections to employers, training, and community services.
We believe every young person has strengths, potential, and a unique path forward. Through individualized guidance and ongoing support, we help youth navigate challenges, explore opportunities, and build meaningful futures.
Together with our funders, partners, employers, and community supporters, we are helping create opportunities for youth and contributing to a stronger Manitoba.
Our Values
Collaboration
We foster strong partnerships and shared responsibility to create opportunities and achieve positive outcomes for youth.
Empowerment
We support youth in developing the tools, knowledge, and independence needed to navigate their future with purpose and resilience.
Support
We provide accessible, responsive, and compassionate services that meet youth where they are and help them move forward.
Respect
We value the dignity, experiences, perspectives, and potential of every individual, creating an environment where all feel welcomed and valued.
Relevance
We deliver services that are responsive to the evolving needs of youth, employers, and the labour market, ensuring meaningful and practical outcomes.
Our History
Youth Employment Services (Y.E.S. Manitoba Inc.) was founded in 1973 through a partnership between the YMCA of Winnipeg and the Rotary Club of Winnipeg. Recognizing the need for dedicated employment supports for young people, these organizations shared a vision of helping youth successfully navigate the transition to the workforce through motivational training, employment referrals, and counselling services.
On August 9, 1974, Youth Employment Services was officially incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization. Since then, YES Manitoba has remained committed to supporting young people as they pursue education, employment, and career opportunities.
Over the past five decades, YES Manitoba has evolved alongside the changing needs of Manitoba’s youth and labour market. While our programs and services have grown, our purpose has remained the same: helping young people discover opportunities, overcome barriers, and build meaningful pathways toward employment and independence.
Today, YES Manitoba provides free employment and career development services to youth ages 16 to 29 across Manitoba. Through individualized employment support, career planning, job search assistance, training connections, and community partnerships, we help young people prepare for the world of work and achieve their goals.
As a registered charity, YES Manitoba is grateful for the ongoing support of the Province of Manitoba, funding partners, donors, employers, and community organizations. Their investment enables us to continue creating opportunities for young Manitobans and strengthening the workforce and communities of our province.
For more than 50 years, YES Manitoba has remained dedicated to empowering youth, fostering opportunity, and helping build a stronger Manitoba—one young person at a time.
Service Notice
YES Manitoba provides employment and career development support designed to help youth build the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to successfully navigate today’s labour market.
Our services focus on helping participants develop effective job search strategies, create professional resumes and cover letters, prepare for interviews, explore education and training opportunities, and strengthen the skills needed to obtain and maintain employment. Through individualized guidance and ongoing support, we help youth become more self-sufficient and capable of managing their future career paths.
While YES Manitoba works closely with employers, training providers, and community partners, we are not a job placement agency, staffing agency, or temporary employment service. Participation in our programs does not guarantee employment, training placement, or admission to educational programs.
Our role is to equip participants with the tools, resources, and support needed to pursue opportunities independently and make informed decisions about their employment, education, and career goals.
Over the past five decades, YES Manitoba has evolved alongside the changing needs of Manitoba’s youth and labour market. While our programs and services have grown, our purpose has remained the same: helping young people discover opportunities, overcome barriers, and build meaningful pathways toward employment and independence.
Today, YES Manitoba provides free employment and career development services to youth ages 16 to 29 across Manitoba. Through individualized employment support, career planning, job search assistance, training connections, and community partnerships, we help young people prepare for the world of work and achieve their goals.
As a registered charity, YES Manitoba is grateful for the ongoing support of the Province of Manitoba, funding partners, donors, employers, and community organizations. Their investment enables us to continue creating opportunities for young Manitobans and strengthening the workforce and communities of our province.
For more than 50 years, YES Manitoba has remained dedicated to empowering youth, fostering opportunity, and helping build a stronger Manitoba—one young person at a time.