Trade Winds to Success
The Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership (ASEP) program is helping improve employment opportunities for Aboriginal peoples by providing valuable skills development, on-the-job work experience and long-term employment opportunities in Edmonton, Calgary and surrounding communities.
The Trade Winds to Success project will provide Aboriginal participants with career decision making, pre-apprenticeship interventions, and personal and academic supports leading to meaningful employment in the trades. Possible careers include carpenter, boilermaker, ironworker, steam/pipe fitter and electrician.
In addition to the Government of Canada, Aboriginal organizations, the Union Training Trust Fund and the Government of Alberta are all partners in this initiative. The total funding for this project could reach up to $10 million over five years.
The ASEP program is helping to shape Canada’s workforce by directly matching skills development to economic opportunities.
Officially launched in 2003 as an $85-million five-year labour market initiative, ASEP is designed to maximize training and job opportunities in major economic development projects across Canada and provide lasting benefits for Aboriginal communities, families and individuals. ASEP meets employers’ needs and labour market demands for skilled workers in a cross-section of large-scale industrial sectors that include forestry, mining, oil and gas, construction and hydroelectric development.
In 2007, the Government of Canada invested an additional $105 million in the ASEP program. Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2009 is committed to enhancing the availability of training by investing an additional $100 million over three years in the ASEP program.
Partners in this initiative include the Oteenow Employment and Training Society, the Métis Nation of Alberta, the Community Futures Treaty Seven Economic Development Corporation, the Government of Alberta, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 146, the Alberta and Northwest Territories (District of Mackenzie) Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers, the Alberta Ironworkers, the United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada Locals 488 and 496, the Electrical Industry Education Trust Fund of Alberta, the Millwrights, Machinery Erectors and Maintenance Union Local 1460, Shell Canada, and Jacobs and Bantrell.
For more information on this project, visit www.tradewindstosuccess.ca or send us an E-mail using our online form.
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