Surveying Canada’s Apprenticeship Stakeholders

What steps has the Canadian apprenticeship community taken in addressing the barriers to apprenticeship since 2008? Are there new promising and best practices that can be shared? What else can this country’s apprenticeship stakeholders do to continue reducing the challenges around accessing and completing apprenticeship training in Canada?

As follow up to the CAF-FCA’s 2008 What’s Happening in Apprenticeship Now report, we are embarking on a new study to get the most up-to-date information on the apprenticeship community’s perceptions of the barriers to apprenticeship as well as the perceived effectiveness of the activities and resources currently available to help address them. So that means that we want to hear from you! Stay tuned for our online survey that will be available in 2011.

Objectives:

• Understand the overall awareness, use and influence of CAF-FCA’s work, and in particular, the activities under its National Outreach Strategy
• Provide an opportunity to inform stakeholders at a national, provincial, and local level of the resources available to help them based on the work CAF-FCA and others have already completed.
• Help focus CAF-FCA’s energies where the apprenticeship community thinks there is the greatest need and provide a clear direction for further work.

The project is being overseen by the CAF-FCA Board of Directors and a Working Group, which includes a broad cross-section of the apprenticeship community.

The Canadian apprenticeship community will be surveyed in 2011.

The report will be available in 2011.

For more information, please contact:
Danielle Matheusik,
Project Manager
613-235-4004 ext. 203 or danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org