Job training funding for Canadore

Provincial funding is flowing locally to help people prepare for high demand careers like personal support workers, machine operators, general carpenters and electricians.
Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton announced $600,000 for three local training programs.
McNaughton says they’re trying to get the message out that working in the skilled trades is a worthwhile endeavor for young people.

“That’s why we’ve launched a very exciting advertising campaign to tell parents, students and educators that young people need to consider a career in the skilled trades as a first alternative,” he says.

He says currently in North Bay 7,700 jobs are going unfilled in the skilled trades. He hopes businesses are listening and will bring young people on board to provide the training needed to do the job.

The money will help train 63 North Bay workers:
– 16 pre-apprenticeship trainees for general carpenter and electrical trades at Canadore College.
– 17 machine operator trainees for the local manufacturing sector through an Ontario SkillsAdvance Partnership between Canadore College, Yes Employment Services Inc. and eight local employers.
– 30 personal support workers for the local health-care sector through an Ontario SkillsAdvance Partnership between Canadore College, District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board and local employers.
Today’s funding announcement was delivered at Canadore’s Commerce Court Campus.

Canadore College president George Burton on the impact of the announcement for Canadore.

“The college is going to provide access to pre- apprenticeship, apprenticeship programs to a greater number of students in the region. And if the students are successful jobs will waiting at the end,” Burton says.

(photo by station staff)