The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) is a special youth program that has been operating for 16 years in most school boards across Ontario. It is designed to permit secondary students to explore, experience, and often enter an apprenticeship pathway before graduation. Conjoined with a secondary school’s Co-operative Education program, OYAP not only promotes on-site work experience within trades, it provides a realistic opportunity to become registered as an apprentice with an employer.
OYAP Participant:
OYAP Participant:
- must be 16 years of age
- must be a full time student
- must be participating in Cooperative Education in an apprenticeable field
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Pathways to Apprenticeship
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Connecting Students
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Registration in an apprenticeship is the first step towards a post secondary education which combines paid on the job training with scheduled college sessions, culminating in certification and a career in that field. OYAP participation can be taken a step further when the participant becomes registered as an apprentice with the MTCU. The registration process invokes a non-binding training agreement between the MTCU, the Co-op employer, and the OYAP student apprentice (and his or her parents if under age eighteen). This naturally requires the support of all parties: the Co-op employer first, the Co-op teacher, the school board OYAP coordinator, an MTCU Training Consultant, and required parent/guardian. Becoming registered at this stage provides several key advantages:
Once employed, these students can then carry on their form of post secondary education for three to five years, earning wages in their hired positions while acquiring the skills and/or hours identified in the Apprenticeship Training Standards guide for their trade. Over the apprenticeship, they will attend one to three college training sessions, often at low cost, and sometimes with grant money to follow each level of training. After completing all the requirements of the Apprenticeship Training Standards, they will be invited to write the Certificate of Qualification exam at a MTCU office. A successful pass will return full, documented certification in the trade, with a commensurate increase in status, empowerment, salary, and mobility. The career now continues with the distinction and veneration of professional, licensed, “journeyperson.” And all of this happened while accumulating little or no student loan(s) to pay back!
To download an OYAP brochure, click here.
- Competency in targeted skills and/or hours spent in this placement are tracked and recorded in an Apprenticeship Training Standards booklet provided Ontario College of Trades
- Finding a paid position in the chosen trade (after graduation) will be easier because employers prefer to hire registered apprentices
- Shorter wait time for the obligatory College training portion of an apprenticeship
- Higher level of skilled operations may be permitted to be learned in some cases
Once employed, these students can then carry on their form of post secondary education for three to five years, earning wages in their hired positions while acquiring the skills and/or hours identified in the Apprenticeship Training Standards guide for their trade. Over the apprenticeship, they will attend one to three college training sessions, often at low cost, and sometimes with grant money to follow each level of training. After completing all the requirements of the Apprenticeship Training Standards, they will be invited to write the Certificate of Qualification exam at a MTCU office. A successful pass will return full, documented certification in the trade, with a commensurate increase in status, empowerment, salary, and mobility. The career now continues with the distinction and veneration of professional, licensed, “journeyperson.” And all of this happened while accumulating little or no student loan(s) to pay back!
To download an OYAP brochure, click here.
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Apprenticeship Training Standards and In-School Curriculum
Apprenticeship Training Standard
The Workplace Apprenticeship Training Standards are developed by the Ontario College of Trades in consultation with representatives from the trade. The standard has been designed to support consistency and accountability within the on-the-job training process; ensuring apprentices across Ontario are developing the skills necessary for success in his/her trade.
To view the training standards for General Carpentry, click here
To view the training standards for Brick and Stone Mason, click here
Curriculum Training Standard
The Curriculum Standards are developed by the Ontario College of Trades in consultation with representatives from the trade and Training Delivery Agent instructors. The standard has been designed to support consistency and accountability within the in-school training process; ensuring apprentices across Ontario are developing the skills necessary for success in his/her trade.
To view the apprenticeship in-school curriculum Levels 1, 2 and 3 for General Carpentry, click here
To view the apprenticeship in-school curriculum Levels 1, 2 and 3 for Brick & Stone Mason, click here
Apprenticeship Training Standard
The Workplace Apprenticeship Training Standards are developed by the Ontario College of Trades in consultation with representatives from the trade. The standard has been designed to support consistency and accountability within the on-the-job training process; ensuring apprentices across Ontario are developing the skills necessary for success in his/her trade.
To view the training standards for General Carpentry, click here
To view the training standards for Brick and Stone Mason, click here
Curriculum Training Standard
The Curriculum Standards are developed by the Ontario College of Trades in consultation with representatives from the trade and Training Delivery Agent instructors. The standard has been designed to support consistency and accountability within the in-school training process; ensuring apprentices across Ontario are developing the skills necessary for success in his/her trade.
To view the apprenticeship in-school curriculum Levels 1, 2 and 3 for General Carpentry, click here
To view the apprenticeship in-school curriculum Levels 1, 2 and 3 for Brick & Stone Mason, click here
