Unlocking Inclusive Pre-Apprenticeship Pathways was a two-and-a-half-year program to help Canadians, particularly those facing barriers to education, including women, Indigenous peoples, newcomers, and persons with disabilities access and succeed in pre-apprenticeship training.
What we did:
We collaborated with 10 Canadian colleges and institutes, the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, and industry partners to develop resources designed to help educators better support students from underrepresented groups in skilled trades programs. By sharing these tools and resources across the sector, the program helped colleges and institutes adapt their programs to be more inclusive of these groups.
The tools continue to support access to skilled trades training tailored the needs of those facing barriers to education, ultimately bringing more diversity to the sector and doing important work to meet Canada’s workforce shortages.
An Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit to Support Diversity in Skilled Trades!
Colleges and institutes now have a brand-new diversity and inclusion recruitment toolkit. The Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit highlights strategies to help colleges and institutes dispel myths about the sector and attract more women, Indigenous peoples, newcomers, and persons with disabilities to skilled trades programs.
Assess Diversity and Inclusion in Your Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
The Diversity and Inclusion Tool helps educators evaluate activities and capture promising practices that make pre-apprenticeship programs more inclusive. Use the tool to examine programs at the Pre-Program Delivery, Program Delivery, and Post-Program Delivery stages and take advantage of best practices to make them more inclusive of under-represented groups.
