Program Eligibility

To be eligible for this opportunity, you must:

• Referred by a WorkBC Centre with an Action Plan

• Current resident of British Columbia

• Either a Permanent Resident, Canadian Citizenship, or Refugee (protected person)

• BCEA PWD Clients

• BCEA Non-PWD Clients (Income Assistance)

• Currently receiving Employment Insurance (EI) Benefits or

• Reachback, have had an EI benefit within the previous 60 months or

• Have earned more than $2,000 in insurable earnings and have paid Employee EI premiums on those earnings in at least 5 of the last 10 years (Note: the 5 years do not have to be consecutive years)

• Grade 12 graduate or mature student status (British Columbia, 19 years or older)

• Meet minimum English language proficiency requirements

Training Modules

• Information Technology Essentials

• Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking

• Markup Essentials

• Scripting for web development

• Databases Design and Modeling

• Rapid Application Development

• Cross-platform programming

• Proprietary scripting

• System Programming

• Object Oriented Programming

• System Programming Workshop

• Career Preparation

• 240 hours

Benefits

• Up to $300 weekly allowance for qualified applicants

• 29 weeks of training in Occupations Skills

• 6 weeks of hands-on practicum workplace training

• 2 weeks of follow-up Job Search Support

• Computer and requisite software are provided at the college