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Scientist looking at specimen through a compound microscope
Project

Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL)

Hub for multiple, industry-focused, and applied learning streams to acquire the academic knowledge, technical skills, and professional competencies for a career in biosciences.
Norther College lights campus from outside.
Project

CLIMB: Continuous Learning for Individuals’ Mid-career and Beyond

Mid-career workers are most vulnerable to disruption of the labour market but there is little widespread information, resources, or training to support a mid-career change.
Shelley Uvanile-Hesch with her truck in the background
engagement

Using VR, AI to help drivers keep pace with the fast-changing trucking industry

For Shelley Uvanile-Hesch, pursuing the life of a long-distance truck driver was as natural as it was for her father before her. Like him, she was drawn to the open roads, the elevated view of the natural world, the chance to see the four corners of North America, and the opportunity to learn from people she’d meet along the way.
Sanjiv Uthayakumar
engagement

Helping displaced workers reskill in advanced manufacturing

Sanjiv Uthayakumar had worked in the printing industry maintaining the presses that produced newspapers and flyers in Ontario for several years, when the long simmering downturn in media and declining advertising dollars started to threaten his job security.
Michelle Clermont poses for a photo at Parkwood Hospital in London, Ontario
engagement

Improving front-line care for growing number of Canadians living with dementia

After watching her grandmother suffer through dementia, Michelle Clermont resolved to leave her corporate job in software support and transition to the healthcare sector to work as a Personal Support Worker and ensure vulnerable people would feel protected by someone they could trust.
Shona Clarke in Calgary, Alberta
engagement

Training displaced oil and gas workers to flourish in Alberta’s tech boom

Shona Clarke had spent more than 20 years working as a senior geologist in Calgary’s oil and gas industry when she lost her job as the global energy company she worked for downsized and restructured.
A worker looking up at an oil rig.
Project

Transition to a New Tomorrow

Unique professional development program to support mid-career oil and gas workers
A birds eye image of two construction workers working on site.
Project

BOLD: Better Outcomes in Layoffs and Downsizing

Retraining and skills development project for manufacturing and steel workers
Three students working in front of laptops in a library setting.
Project

Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities

Assessing tools and resources for mid-career workers with disabilities