Mosaic Network is designed by youth and for youth! If you are looking into employment, education, or training opportunities and would benefit from personalized career navigation and coordinated support, we want to hear from you. We are also for employers who are wanting to hire, onboard and retain young people, but don't know where to start.
Your Service Navigator
Mosaic Network connects young adults aged 15–29 with the resources they need to thrive while helping employers keep great people.
- Build Your Pathway
- Enable Access
- Connect
- Sustain
Why Mosaic Network?
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Coordinating your local community
Finding structural success shouldn't mean navigating a maze of disconnected systems. Mosaic maps your local community to connect you directly with employment, regional training options, and active neighborhood projects. If a program already exists near you, we help you step right into it.
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Ongoing, long-term support
Starting a placement is only day one. Our team stick by you through the adjustment phase by offering consistent check-ins, local mentorship, and real-time support to ensure your connection with your employer grows more stable over time.
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Filling critical gaps
If localized programming for your needs is missing in your area, Mosaic organizes to address the regional gap.
Personalized Career Navigation
We help youth create realistic career pathways based on their goals, strengths, and lived experiences.
Evidence-Based Approach
Our model draws on research in youth employment, workforce development dedicated to creating pathways that support long-term success.
Collaborative Support Network
We help youth navigate opportunities and connect with community resources that support their goals, while continuously growing our network of trusted partners.
Building the conditions for long-term career success.
Finding employment is only one part of building a sustainable career. Mosaic helps youth navigate the practical, financial, and personal supports that make employment possible by connecting them to resources, identifying gaps, and helping create pathways that work for their lives.
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Transportation Access
Transportation should not determine whether someone can access an opportunity. Mosaic helps youth identify transportation challenges, navigate available transit supports, and find solutions that make getting to work, training, and interviews possible.
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Childcare & Caregiving Support
Family responsibilities can create additional challenges when entering employment or training. Mosaic helps youth explore childcare resources, identify available supports, and build career plans that recognize their responsibilities outside of work.
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Mental Health & Wellness
Sustainable employment requires requires support during times of transition. Mosaic helps youth access wellness resources, community supports, and strategies that support confidence, resilience, and long-term success.
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Skills & Career Development
Mosaic connects youth with community partners to grow their skills and confidence needed to pursue opportunities through career exploration, application support, interview preparation, workplace readiness, and individualized career planning.
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Digital & Resource Support
Access to technology, information, and essential resources can shape employment outcomes. Mosaic helps youth identify resource gaps and connect with available supports that enable participation in today's workforce.
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Employment Retention Support
Success does not end when a young person starts a job. Mosaic provides ongoing navigation and check-ins to help youth adapt to workplace expectations, address challenges, and identify opportunities for continued growth. We also ensure employers have the guidance, coaching, and support they need to successfully work with the young people they bring onto their teams.
Strengthening existing community networks.
The Mosaic Network collaborates directly with local employers, specialized educational partners, and non-profits. If high-impact local networks are already in place, we guide you to them. When gaps persist, we build the missing pieces ourselves.
For Employers
Hiring young talent is only the first step toward building a strong workforce. Preventing early turnover, navigating workplace transitions, and managing external barriers takes bandwidth that busy teams rarely have. Mosaic Network works alongside your organization to provide ongoing coaching, bridge training gaps, and overall build your confidence with a focus on international collaboration to support your team in building sustainable and long-term retention.
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Funding programs like Canada Summer Jobs are a great entry point, but retention often drops when grants expire. We help bridge that transition into supporting you in identifying opportunities to build sustainable and permanent workforce integration.
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Our Career Navigators stay connected with young employees to support them as they navigate employment, often for the first time.
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Transit support, housing stress, or documentation hurdles shouldn't derail an employment contract. We work with youth to reduce preventable friction points before they lead to absenteeism or burnout.
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We help bridge expectations between workplace culture and young employees entering formal employment for the first time and setting clear communication baselines from day one.
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When employees need access to local health, digital, or financial services, we connect them directly to regional networks so they arrive at work focused and supported.
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We respect your timelines and operational constraints. Our collaboration approach is to work with you to understand and integrate smoothly into your existing management rhythms.
Your journey with Mosaic Network
Everyone's path is different. Mosaic Network provides personalized career navigation, coordinated supports, and ongoing guidance to help you build a future that works for you.
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Share Your Story
Tell us about your goals, strengths, interests, and the challenges you're navigating. There's no "right" place to begin.
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Create Your Career Plan
Work alongside a Career Navigator to build a personalized employment pathway that reflects your aspirations and support needs.
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Access Opportunities & Supports
Connect with employment opportunities, training, and wrap-around supports that help make your goals achievable.
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Grow with Confidence
Continue receiving guidance as you settle into employment, overcome new challenges, and take the next steps in your career journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Starting something new can come with lots of questions. Here are a few of the ones we hear most often.
No. Mosaic meets you where you are. Together, we'll explore your strengths, interests, and goals to create a career pathway that's realistic, personalized, and built around your circumstances.
Every person's journey is different. Depending on your goals and needs, your Career Navigator may help you explore employment opportunities, training, education pathways, transportation options, wellness resources, community services, and other supports that contribute to long-term employment success.
Access to support shouldn't depend on your postal code. If local resources are limited, Mosaic works with you to explore alternative options, virtual opportunities, and individualized pathways while continuing to build relationships across communities.
No. Mosaic is a career navigation service. We work alongside youth to identify goals, coordinate supports, explore opportunities, and help build sustainable career pathways. While employment is one possible outcome, our focus is supporting long-term career success rather than simply filling vacancies.
Mosaic is built around long-term career success, not just job placement. Your Career Navigator will work with you throughout your employment journey, helping you navigate transitions, identify new opportunities, and build confidence as your career grows.
Start the conversation.
Whether you're a young person exploring your next step, an employer interested in supporting emerging talent, or an organization looking to collaborate, we'd love to learn more about your goals and how Mosaic can support you.