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BC Trades Training Seat Finder
Training
Trades Training BC. The hub for BC's public trades training programs & services.
BCCA Employee Benefit Trust
Health & Benefits
Your employees are your biggest strength and asset to your business. Their health and well-being is important. We can help you recruit and retain the employees you need with our flexible employee benefits plans designed to protect them. We have the options you want, no matter what size your company is.
BCCA Past Chair Legacy Fund
Training & Employment
The BCCA Past Chair Legacy Fund has been established to help fund eligible trades and professional construction career pathways for our industry’s future leaders.
BCCA-Integrating Newcomers
Employment
If you are immigrating to Canada, or have recently arrived as a permanent resident, and have construction industry experience, we’ll provide you with career advice, connections, and job leads before you move.
If you’re a construction employer anywhere in Canada looking for skilled business, trades, or technical licensed specialists, we can help connect you with educated, experienced, and motivated newcomers approved for Canadian Permanent Residency.
Bringing Trades to Schools
School and Volunteering Programs
VRCA’s “Bring Trades to Schools” program connects students with real-life construction experiences. Through interactive hands-on workshops and industry-led demonstrations, students gain exposure to high-demand trades like carpentry, electrical work, plumbing, and heavy-equipment machinery operation.
By partnering with schools and industry experts, this program helps students make informed career choices while addressing the growing need for skilled trades workers.
Builders Code
HR Tools & Training
Looking to attract and retain great people? Builders Code helps construction employers build strong workplaces so they can recruit talent, retain employees, improve team performance, and strengthen their reputation as an employer of choice.
BuildForce Canada E-Learning Centre
Training & Employment
Access online learning for supervisors, managers, HR professionals, mentors, and apprentices to strengthen your organization's apprenticeship capacity.
Building Builders
Training & Employment
A custom mentorship program for BC’s construction industry. Building Builders connects today’s experts with tomorrow’s leaders. Whether you’re just considering a career in the construction trades, or already on your path in the industry, we’re here to match you with a mentor who can help get you where you want to go. If you’ve already established success in your construction career, just a few hours a year can make a difference in allowing you to give back to the industry that made you.
CONNECT
Employment
Based in Terrace, employment specialists are focused on helping connect job seekers in the area with local construction employers looking for skilled workers.
Whether you are a job-seeker looking for a rewarding career in the skilled trades, or an employer in need of skilled workers, Connect can help you.
Engaging Youth in Skilled Trades – Self-Assessment Checklist
Training & Employment
Evaluate your organization's readiness to attract and engage future apprentices and identify opportunities to strengthen your talent pipeline.
Honour the Work
Charity & Education
This innovative program aims to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education through hands-on activity kits and books designed to inspire elementary school students from kindergarten to grade 5.
LNG Canada
Training & Employment
Supports industry and apprenticeship training for construction and related trades in BC, helping employers cover training costs.
Making It Work
Training & Employment
Discover practical strategies to improve apprentice retention by creating supportive workplace cultures where apprentices can thrive and complete their training.
PSRN Program : The BC Construction Safety Alliance
Health & Safety
Substance use and mental health challenges affect every construction site in British Columbia. The BC Construction Safety Alliance’s Peer Support Recovery Navigator (PSRN) Program helps employers and workers respond early and build safer, recovery-inclusive workplaces. Video (Real Support, Real Results: The PSRN Program for Workplace Recovery)
What PSRNs Do
PSRNs are trained peers, not counsellors. They are trusted co-workers who complete BCCSA’s one-day education program led by Dr Paul Farnan. After training, they provide confidential guidance and help connect colleagues to professional resources when needed. This early, peer-based approach prevents issues from becoming safety risks or lost time.
Resources for Trades Workers | Mental Health & Substance Use Help
Health & Safety
Ministry of Health have also compiled a dedicated online resource page for people working in trades and industries. The page brings together trusted information and links to key mental health, substance use, and toxic drug response information and services available across British Columbia in one convenient location.
Safety
Training & Safety
BCCA is actively involved in ensuring safety standards and protections are upheld and kept up-to-date across our provincial industry. If you’re an employer or a skilled tradesperson in BC’s construction industry, please use these many safety resources meant to maintain the health, safety, and well-being of our skilled workforce.
Skilled Trades BC
Training
SkilledTradesBC is the provincial organization responsible for advancing British Columbia’s trades training and apprenticeship system. The site helps apprentices, employers, sponsors, training providers, and experienced tradespeople explore trade pathways, register apprenticeships, understand certification requirements, and access resources for building skilled trades careers in B.C.
STEP
Employment
Since 2006, the Skilled Trades Employment Program (STEP) has focused on finding motivated candidates for construction employers with jobs to fill in British Columbia. We work to promote diversity and inclusion within the skilled trades by opening entry-level apprenticeship opportunities up to equity deserving groups. Our mandate is to create and advocate for inclusive worksites and remove barriers for people who are underrepresented in the trades.
Whether you are a job-seeker looking for a rewarding career in the skilled trades, or an employer in need of skilled workers, STEP can help you.
Tailgate Toolkit
Training & Safety
Men in trades are overrepresented in the number of illicit drug poisoning deaths in British Columbia. In response, the Tailgate Toolkit Project aims to educate employers and employees of BC’s construction sector about the resources available to them.
Virtual Site Tour!
Site Tour
Join us for a 10-15 minute virtual site tour of this teepee-inspired community centre currently under construction, followed by a panel discussion with the Acres team moderated by Stacey Rosch. No registration is required for this event. All are welcome!
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