9. Why Developed / Problems / Issues Targeted

 What are the main aims or objectives of the initiative? Is it designed to address any particular problems or issues? If so, please specify what these are.

For people who are trying to discover what they want to do within the trades sector.

10. Key Features / Content

  • Innovative
  • Effective
  • Promising
 Please describe the main features of the program, focusing in particular on those aspects that are particularly innovative, effective or promising.

For the first ten weeks applicants research trades: speakers, tours, hands-on chance to try out various trades skills.

$8 an hour both for their research and their working time. The UFCW 247 program covers a range of apprenticeships, from aviation and cooking to pipefitting and oil and gas jobs.

Participants also receive certification & related Safety Awareness information in:

~ WHMIS, ~ Level 1 First Aid, ~ Effective Workplace Communications ~ Forklift Operators Certification

After an 11-week work stint, the program negotiates a job and/or apprenticeship position with the employer if both the apprenticeship candidate and the employer find it has worked out.

Featured in BC Skills Competition 2007 with a Race Car Project.

Offer projects to at-risk youth to give back to community – learn trades with supervision while working on projects for the needy.

The program goes out of its way to find placements that meet the needs of the applicants i.e. work in the trade they are interested in.
11. Funding Mechanisms Please describe the type of funding mechanism used for this initiative (e.g. provider’s own budget, service contract, grant, co-funding etc.)