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Aboriginal Skills and Training Strategic Investment Fund
New in Canada's Economic Action Plan
Through Canada's Economic Action Plan, the federal government is investing $75 million of new funding over two years to establish the Aboriginal Skills and Training Strategic Investment Fund (ASTSIF). The fund will support short-term, focused initiatives designed to help Aboriginal people get the specific skills they require to benefit from economic opportunities, including those generated by the stimulus package. The fund will be an important step toward implementing the partnership- and results-based successor to the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Strategy (AHRDS), to be put in place in April 2010.
About the Program
The ASTSIF will strengthen partnerships between Aboriginal employment service organizations and employers through training-to-employment programs related to concrete job opportunities. It will also support greater investments in training for individuals facing barriers to employment such as low literacy and essential skills.
How It Works
The ASTSIF will focus on three main objectives: first, entering into a limited number of training-to-employment projects leading to concrete, guaranteed job opportunities by establishing partnerships with small and medium-size employers; second, supporting projects to assist Aboriginal people with barriers to employment, including literacy and essential skills challenges; and finally, the ASTSIF will support pilot projects to test innovative approaches to Aboriginal labour market programming as well as projects that are national in scope.
Who Is Eligible
The AHRDS service delivery network-the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreement holders (AHRDAs)-will be the primary recipient of funding, which will be granted through an application process. AHRDAs will also be expected to enter into projects that are based on strong partnerships with employers, other Aboriginal organizations, educational institutions or other levels of government and are able to deliver measureable results within the two-year timeframe. Other Aboriginal organizations may be able to participate in projects that are national in scope.
Aboriginal Canadians can learn more about skills and training opportunities by contacting an AHRDA representative in their area.
How to Find Out More
Information will be available on the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada website.
Find a Project Near You
This initiative helps fund the project(s) listed below. Select a project to learn more.- A community based pre-employment job readiness training initiative
- Aboriginal apprenticeship resource centre
- Aboriginal Employment Gateway
- Aboriginal fisheries essential skills development
- Aboriginal Gateway to Health Careers
- Aboriginal Labour Market Transition Project
- Aboriginal Peoples Television Network - Vancouver 2010 Olympic broadcast and training
- Aboriginal Pharmaceutical Manufacturing / Sterile Processing Program
- Aboriginal Trades Exploration Entry Level Training
- Aboriginal training in the construction sector
- Access and equal opportunities for members of the Inuit Community
- Apprenticeship Access Program
- Aquaculture skills employment strategy
- ArrowMight literacy and essential skills training
- Azhemiinagoziwin (Regaining Strength) Program - Kenora
- Bigstone Cree Nation Housing Renovations and Construction Training Project
- Breaking Ground into Construction Trades
- Building essential skills in the workplace
- Building the Road to Aboriginal Workforce Partnerships
- Building the Spirit
- Bus Manufacturing Technician Program
- Certified medical interpreter training program
- Community Achievement Centres
- Community development internship
- Community Skills Inventory
- Construction Partnership Initiative
- Construction skills development
- Creating to develop winning skills
- Cree Re-integration, Education and Employment (C.R.E.E.)
- Early childhood educator project
- Empowering Northern Aboriginal People By Eliminating Employment Barriers
- Enhancing seniors supportive care for the North Shore Tribal Council member communities
- Environmental Monitor and Environmental Site Assessment Assistant
- ESAF - Essential Skills Training - 2010 Winter Games
- Essential Skill Employment Enhancement Centre
- Essential skills continuing care program
- First Nations Building a Community
- Forestry, Mining and Oil Rig Opportunity
- Fort Providence Community Trade Skills Training Program - Building Capacity
- Gwijin Zrii Project (Success Project)
- Health Sector Aboriginal Human Resources Initiative
- Home Construction Skills Development and Employment Program
- Hospitality and Tourism Employment Readiness Program
- Increasing Employability Outcomes for Métis Persons with Disabilities
- Introduction to Construction Trades
- Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre Achievement Project
- Journey to Successful Employment
- Just Say Y.E.S Workplace Literacy Skills - Just Say Y.E.S Work Placement Program
- Labour Market Information Implementation Strategy
- Licensed Practical Nursing
- Licensed Practical Nursing Training
- MMF - Licensed Practical Nursing Training
- Montreal Inuit Urban Project
- Nakaaziwinan - "Tools for a better life"
- National Aboriginal housing skills development
- Next Generation
- Nisga'a Log Home Building Training
- Nitamisin 'Good Start' aboriginal apprenticeship centre
- Ocki Maticiwin Atikamekw - New Youth Atikamekw
- Persons with Disabilities Professional Training Program
- Pidaban: Mobile Counselling for Improved Employment Outcomes
- Program tutoring/training in environmental sciences for the Innu communities in Quebec
- Quebec Native Women's Literacy and Essential Skills Awareness Project
- Railway Training and Employment
- Re-Engaging Multi-Barriered Youth through Education, Training and Employment
- Ready to Mine
- Ready-to-Work: tourism and hospitality careers for Métis
- Saskatchewan Indian Training Assessment Group Career Advisors Network
- Social and Occupational Integration Service and Creation of a Horticultural Skills Centre
- Strategic Aboriginal Skills Development and Training for Meaningful Employment in NB
- Strategic Partnership Development Initiative
- Strengthening our Ties
- Supply Chain Skills Centre
- Taking Flight: northern aboriginal aviation careers
- Technology foundations for employment in energy
- The Métis building systems advisors internship program
- The Strategic Training Initiatives Health Project
- The Treaty Model of Integrated Service Delivery
- Tourism, Retail and Service Skill Development
- Training for First Nations patrol officers
- Training in the injection mould industry
- Training to employment partnerships
- Value Chain, Market Access and Business Development for Aboriginal Women and Youth
- West Region Tribal Council - Licensed Practical Nursing Training
- Western Cree Tribal Council Training to Employment Program
- Youth Engagement and Skill Development Toolkit
For more information on the Economic Action Plan initiatives, follow the links below:
