{"id":21211,"date":"2023-08-26T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/update-ontario-adds-160-million-to-skills-training-funding\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:34:12","slug":"update-ontario-adds-160-million-to-skills-training-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/update-ontario-adds-160-million-to-skills-training-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Ontario adds $160 million to skills training funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is putting $160 million toward skills training programs, prioritizing help for people on social assistance and people with criminal records.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Minister Monte McNaughton announced the fourth round of funding through the Skills Development Fund recently.<\/p>\n<p>He says it\u2019s aimed at giving at least 100,000 people free training in health care, auto manufacturing, IT, hospitality and skilled trades.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement brings the total for Skills Development Fund training to more than $860 million, with 596 projects in a variety of sectors supported so far.<\/p>\n<p>McNaughton says one million people in Ontario have a criminal record, with the majority for non-violent and petty crimes, and half of them are on social assistance even 15 years after being released.<\/p>\n<p>He says around 40 per cent of people with a criminal record can\u2019t get a second interview when job hunting, so he is calling on organizations to submit proposals to help them find meaningful work while also addressing labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that we\u2019ve really been promoting and encouraging businesses to step up,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think there\u2019s a huge opportunity. These workers become very loyal to the employer that gives them a chance and there\u2019s a huge opportunity to lift these people up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a9 2023 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2023\/08\/happening-today-ontario-adds-160m-to-skills-training-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is putting $160 million toward skills training programs, prioritizing help for people on social assistance and people &#8230; <a title=\"UPDATE: Ontario adds $160 million to skills training funding\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/update-ontario-adds-160-million-to-skills-training-funding\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UPDATE: Ontario adds $160 million to skills training funding\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-21211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}