EDMONTON — The Alberta government is giving more than $1.5 million over three years, beginning in 2024-25, to Trade Winds to Success, an Indigenous-led non-profit organization that helps Indigenous students train for careers in the skilled trades.
This new funding will support operations so the organization can deliver programming, including its Residential Construction Program. Students in this program take foundational courses for six weeks, followed by 12 weeks of hands-on training, where they learn techniques to construct eco-smart small homes for Indigenous community members, states a release. Upon completion, students receive 330 hours towards their first year in Alberta’s carpenter apprenticeship program.
The Residential Construction Program is expected to enrol 156 participants over three years.
Through partnerships with Alberta’s government, Union Training Trusts, employers and the Indigenous community, Trade Winds to Success has helped increase the number of Indigenous people training and working in the skilled trades, with more than 3,000 individuals supported since it was founded in 2005.
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