The province is providing $276,000 to help train Sudbury women with low incomes in skilled trades.
Through the Women in Skilled Trades and Information Technology training program, women with low incomes receive training in communities where skilled trades and IT workers are needed. The carpentry level 1 pre-apprenticeship program being offered by Collège Boréal will provide in-class training, followed by a work placement with an employer on-site.
The program will be offered at the Sudbury and Timmins campuses.
“This program is helping women in our community to learn the skills our local employers need while growing in our community,” Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci said in a news release.
Since 2003, the program has helped to train more than 2,220 women across Ontario. Seven programs, including one for francophone women and two for Aboriginal women, are being offered in eight locations across Ontario.
Approximately 80 per cent of women who have graduated from the program find employment, or pursue further training or apprenticeships, within six months of graduating. Women’s participation in apprenticeship training is on the rise with women representing 19 per cent of apprentices in Ontario. Yet women remain under-represented in apprenticeship trades that have been traditionally male-dominated, such as carpentry, horticulture, plumbing and welding.
"Through this initiative, Collège Boréal is proud to offer trades training to the women of its region and proud of the trust that the Ontario government, once again, placed in us,” Boréal president Denis Hubert-Dutrisac said in a news release. “Thanks to our vast experience in apprenticeship programs and our state-of-the-art facilities, we are increasing the number of qualified skilled workers for this trade that is in high demand."
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