Cooperative Employee Partnership Program – Nova Scotia

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“Cooperative Employee Partnership Program (CEPP) is an example of real results, of sustainable development, and of integrating social and economic goals. It is also an example of what can happen when people are drawn together by a common goal and vision, and backed by the foundational support of successful and integrated systems."

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Working with public and private sector partners, the Cooperative Employee Partnership Program (CEPP) moves community clients into an employment stream which establishes them as full members of a variety of co-operative ventures across Nova Scotia. After going through a screening process to determine their suitability for a co-operative business venture in a specified sector, clients make a $20,000 equity investment, paid on their behalf by the Department of Community Services, instead of a traditional wage subsidy support. Clients are required to pay back the equity investment over time. Once the equity is repaid, it goes into a co-operative investment fund to be used to help further groups of social assistance clients enter the marketplace. A major regional initiative modeled after the CEPP involves a chain of pet shops, services, and accessory manufactures that will employ as employee-owners, more than 100 people, most of whom are social assistance recipients. Mental health patients classified as disabled will also have an opportunity to work in this venture. This program was established in 1997 as a solution to the welfare crisis in the region.
(Source: website of Centre for Community Enterprise)

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