Title:
Pathways to Resilience: Intro to Emerging and Established Skilled Trades for Indigenous Women
Agreement Number:
018121012
Agreement Value:
$11,000,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 9, 2022 - Mar 31, 2027
Description:
The funding provides supports to projects that focuses on career exploration opportunities to support well-informed career decisions in the skilled trades, skilled training to help participants prepare for success in the skilled trades, and work experience to offer hands-on job experience and connections to employers. The program focuses on groups that face barriers entering the trades, like youth, women, Indigenous people, newcomers, persons with disabilities, members of racialized communities.
Organization:
Employment and Social Development Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes of the Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness program are:
• Participants have increased their awareness and intend to pursue apprenticeship or a career in the trade.
• Participants have increased their skills and intend to pursue apprenticeship or a career in the skilled trades.
• Participants have gained work experience and intend to pursue apprenticeship or a career in the skilled trades.
Location:
Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, CA P0J1P0
Reference Number:
141-2021-2022-Q4-00315
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
878511799RT0001
Recipient Type:
Indigenous recipients
Amendment Date
Jan 7, 2025
Recipient's Operating Name:
Keepers of the Circle
Recipient's Legal Name:
Temiskaming Native Women's Support Group
Federal Riding Name:
Nipissing-Timiskaming
Federal Riding Number:
35070
Program:
CAS - Skilled Trades Awareness & Readiness
Program Purpose:
The Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness (STAR) program under the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy provides funding to eligible organizations to provide Canadians, including equity-deserving groups, with opportunities to build awareness of the trades as good quality careers, to provide opportunities to explore the trades, and provide individuals with the skills and supports they need to pursue a career in the skilled trades.