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By Aaron Schulze

Forestry Education

Sixteen-week Advanced Forestry Skills Training program in Kamloops starts in May

Apr 27, 2021 | 9:49 AM

KAMLOOPS — Up to 24 eligible British Columbians will get training to prepare them for jobs in the forest industry.

The B.C. government is providing more than $760,000 to Stillwater Consulting Ltd. to deliver skills and certification courses in two intakes of its Advanced Forestry Skills Training program in Kamloops.

“This is the second intake of a great project running out of Kamloops,” Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Nicholas Simons said. “Participants will learn job-specific skills and get the certificates they need to set them on a rewarding career path in the forest sector.”

The Advanced Forestry Skills Training program in Kamloops is a new Community and Employer Partnerships project from the province. During the project, participants will receive 16 weeks of occupational and employability skills training, three weeks of on-the-job work experience with local employers and two weeks of follow-up support to assist in their job search.

Participants will also be able to earn four different industry certificates: occupational first aid – Level Three, basic chainsaw operator, basic fire suppression and safety-fire entrapment avoidance, and pesticide applicator-agriculture general.

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Past graduates of the program have gone on to become junior forestry technicians, wildland firefighters, equipment operators, silviculture surveyors and recreation trail builders.

Full-time, group-based classroom learning for the second intake starts on Monday, May 3, 2021, for 12 participants. Project activities run through to Sept. 24, 2021. Anyone interested in finding out about CEP projects can contact their local WorkBC centre.