The following PSW costs are covered under the new Health Force Ontario Funding:

• Mosby's Canadian Textbook + accompanying Workbook

• Clinical Supervision Fee

• First Aid/CPR-C, Mask Fit, Food Handling Certificate

• Specialized Care Certificates: Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA®) in Dementia Care 

• Medical forms (Out of pocket expense. Will be reimbursed up to $100.)

• Vulnerable Sector Screening/Police Check (Out of pocket expense. Toronto done online. Will be reimbursed.)

• 2 sets of clinical uniforms (scrubs)

• Clinical shoes and socks

Attracting New PSW Graduates to Long-Term Care and Home and Community Care Sectors

Ontario is providing incentive funding to attract personal support workers (PSWs) to work in long-term care homes as well as home and community care agencies.

Available funding provides:

• *up to $5,440 to PSW students as a stipend during their clinical placement in a long-term care home and/or home and community care employer;

• $10,000 to recent PSW graduates in exchange for a 12-month commitment to work in a long-term care home or for a home and community care employer; and

• an additional $10,000 to support relocation costs for those recent PSW graduates committing to work in a long-term care home or with a home and community care employer in a rural, remote, or northern area for 12 months.

Information for PSW Students

To be eligible for the clinical placement stipend, you must:

• Begin a clinical placement as part of an Ontario PSW training program at a public-assisted college, private career college, district school board or Indigenous Institute that meets the 2022 program standard established by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities with a participating long-term care home or home and community care agency; and

• Begin your eligible clinical placement on or after April 1, 2023.

Clinical Placement Stipend

• Participating employers must offer clinical placements to students as part of an Ontario PSW training program at a public-assisted college, private career college, district school board or Indigenous Institute that meets the 2022 program standard established by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.

*Stipend only available from participating employers

Contact

If you have any questions about these initiatives, email info-hfo@ontariohealth.ca

www.healthforceontario.ca/en/Home/All_Programs/PSW_Initiatives