Collection search - Pacific Regional Office, Vancouver B.C., Employment Development Branch, NEED Program Files [textual record]

The New Employment Expansion and Development (NEED) program was introduced in 1982 to create new and productive employment for those who had exhausted their UI benefits and for social assistance recipients. The program encouraged activities that supported Canada's economic recovery, regional development, and improved productivity by helping to fund projects sponsored by federal, provincial, and municipal governments, voluntary organizations, businesses and unions.
This accession consists of 10 boxes of NEED program files. These files are, in fact, interfiles which have been returned to the records center as a new accession. The program files are a combination (mixture) of contract and project files related to the implementation and operation of the NEED program. The contract files contain application forms, financial project data, as well as routine forms used for ongoing administrative purposes. The project files consist of reports, project summaries, and evaluation assessments.

These records were originally held in British Columbia. They were transferred to the National Capital Region in 2016 and are available for consultation there.