Foundations for Trades

We're actively recruiting participants who are over 18 years old for the Foundations for Trade program right now.

In partnership with the Ontario government's Skills Development Fund and Conestoga College, we're launching a new program to help job seekers kick start their careers in the construction industry.

The Foundations for Trades program will provide participants with five weeks of hands-on training in carpentry, plumbing, and electrical, job placement up to 4 weeks with a local employer in the construction sector.

This program will train six cohorts of 18 people over a one-year period, setting up 105 local candidates for well-paying, good jobs in the red-hot construction sector and helping to ease the labour shortage conditions currently facing the skilled trades. Graduates will receive a Construction Foundations Certificate from Conestoga College.

The program is open to people who are 18+ years old who are currently unemployed or working less than 20 hours per week.

This is an Employment Ontario project and is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario through the Skills Development Fund, a more than $200 million initiative that supports innovative programs that connect job seekers with the skills and training they need to find well-paying careers close to home.

Interested in launching a lucrative career in the skilled trades? Reach out to Erin Jones at the Brant Employment Centre – ejones@st-leonards.com or 519-756-7665 to get started.

Or you can click here to have our team contact you.

This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.