The Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development was at Loyalist College Friday afternoon and he came with cheque book in hand.
Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini announced $890,000 for training programs for up to 3,775 workers and jobseekers in Belleville
Piccini says the funds go to support in-demand careers in construction, advanced manufacturing, logistics and transportation, health care, tourism, agri-food and other sectors through the Skills Development Fund (SDF) and Pre-Apprenticeship programs.
He added the total investment for the Bay of Quinte area, since the launch of the fund, is over $8.7 million.
Below is a breakdown of the $890,000.
Piccini says the fund brings together wisdom and youth.
“Our Skills Development Fund enables us to connect today’s students with the golden generation of skilled tradespeople, the people who built this province into what it is today. We stand on the shoulders of everybody who came before us.”
He says it will assist everyone
“Creating a society we all want to be a part of from building new homes that families can call home, highways, public transit, connecting our communities to clean energy projects, powering our economy. ”
- Ontario East Economic Development Commission: $285,400 through the SDF Training Stream to the Workforce Partners Support Project, which engages economic development offices, workforce development planners, employment services and employers to help 1,715 jobseekers acquire in-demand skills and jobs in Eastern Ontario.
- Junior Achievement of Northern & Eastern Ontario: $241,280 through the SDF Training Stream for the Empowerment of Youth in the Skilled Trades program to raise awareness of the skilled trades and deliver a free in-class entrepreneurial program to 2,000 full-time high school students, including youth with disabilities.
- Youth Habilitation Quinte Inc.: $363,500 to deliver pre-apprenticeship training in careers as general carpenters, which includes foundational training for carpentry skills and workplace health and safety.
The province also announced the approval of the college’s 433A Industrial Millwright program, increasing training capacity up to 30 more seats a year.
