RTW launches in Ile a la Crosse

STEC and its northern partners Can-Sask Career and Employment Services, Primrose Lake Economic Development Corporation and Northern Career Quest launched Camp Services – Ready to Work in Ile a la Crosse today, January 16. Participants will develop workplace essential skills, and will be introduced to culinary arts and the standards for housekeeping, as well as earn certificates in First Aid / CPR, WHMIS and Food Safe.

The RTW program combines classroom instruction, hands-on skills training, and on-the-job mentoring to under-represented groups making a transition from unemployment or underemployment into the tourism workforce. Since its inception in 1994, more than 40 communities in Saskatchewan and more than 2,900 individuals have participated in RTW, found long-term rewarding careers, returned to school, completed journeyperson trades certification, or received promotions from frontline to supervisory positions.