PORT HOPE, ONT.— The Ontario government has announced it is investing more than $5 million through the Skills Development Fund (SDF) Training Stream to help more than 2,900 youth, jobseekers and apprentices across Northumberland and Peterborough.
The government is partnering with four organizations in the region to deliver free training programs that support youth, apprentices and underrepresented groups, including:
- Junior Achievement of Northern and Eastern Ontario, which is receiving a $609,398investment to deliver the Empowerment of Youth in Skilled Trades project. The initiative will promote careers in the skilled trades to 2,650 students through hands-on training, mentorship and paid placements for 40 students in high-demand sectors such as construction, manufacturing, motive power and aviation.
- Northumberland Builders and Construction Association Inc. is receiving $230,240 to support 100 participants with onsite training through the purchase of a mobile training trailer.
- Nventure Business Development Corporation is receiving $562,000 to improve career suitability for 100 participants by developing Canada’s first Virtual Reality recruitment and retention tool for the manufacturing sector.
- OPCMIA Local 598 Training Centre is receiving $3,947,100 for their Restoring Ontario and Restoring Port Hope projects to support 60 apprentices in the brick and stone mason and cement finisher trades, and train 36 pre-apprentices in the restoration mason trade to help complete a restoration project in downtown Port Hope.
