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Trade Winds to Success Training Society
The Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership (ASEP) initiative is helping to improve employment opportunities for Aboriginal people by delivering pre-apprenticeship training leading to meaningful employment in Alberta's construction industry.
Over the last decade, Alberta's construction industry has experienced unprecedented growth. The Trade Winds to Success Training Society is working to ensure that Aboriginal people are positioned to benefit from this industry in careers as boilermakers, ironworkers, carpenters and pipe/steamfitters.
The training-to-employment program offered by the Trade Winds to Success Training Society provides the opportunity for Aboriginal people to gain valuable employability skills by offering life skills courses, academic upgrading to write the trades entrance exam level four, and eight weeks of union shop and hand skills training.
The Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership (ASEP) initiative 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. It does this by meeting 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.
Between 2005 and 2008 the Trade Winds to Success Training Society, in collaboration with regional partners, will:
- Provide 240 Aboriginal people with a Trades Streaming Process; and
- Provide pre-Apprenticeship training to 200 Aboriginal people.
Partners in this initiative include the Oteenow Employment & Training Society, the Métis Nation of Alberta, the Treaty Seven Economic Development Corporation, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 146, the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers, Machinery Mover, Riggers and Welders, the Alberta and Northwest Territories (District of MacKenzie) Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers, the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada Local 488, Ironworkers Apprenticeship and Training Plan Local Unions 720 and 725, and the Edmonton Pipe Trade Education Trust Fund.
For more information on this project, visite Trade Winds' website or send us an E-mail using our online form.
