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Applications for the Supervisor Training Grant are now closed

Thank you to everyone who applied for the grant. If you haven’t heard from us, please know that we’ll be keeping all applications on file for the next six months in case any additional opportunities become available.

To qualify, applicants must be professionals or organizations working and providing services in BC’s community-based, non-profit or social services sectors, including:

  • Early Childhood Development
  • Support for Children & Youth with Special Needs
  • Family Support, Child Safety & Foster Care
  • Child & Youth Mental Health Services
  • Adoption & Youth Justice Services
  • Developmental Disabilities & PSI
  • Home Support & Community Inclusion
  • Employment, Housing or Family Resource Services
  • Services for Indigenous, Immigrant, Refugee, and LGBTQ2S+ communities
  • Hiring external trainers or facilitators within BC.
  • Travel and accommodation expenses for training for rural and remote agencies.
  • Direct training course costs including textbooks and required materials.
  • Child Care costs for single parents if training takes place outside of regular working hours (maximum of
    $500 per person)
  • Temporary back fill costs for staff participating in training 
  • Costs directly associated with developing training created by and for the BC social services sector. You will be required to provide supporting evidence in the final report, including how the training was made accessible to the broader sector. All training must align with the in-demand competencies.
  • General operational costs not related to training. 
  • Staff salaries (outside of training costs). 
  • Equipment or infrastructure unrelated to training access. 
  • Travel if there is an option available locally
  • Travel or accommodation when training is available and delivered to urban supervisors in urban areas
  • Development of proprietary, internal use only training.  
  • Training taking place outside of BC 
  • Training delivered by out-of-province providers

This grant supports leadership, management, and supervisory training for social service professionals in urban, rural, and remote communities in British Columbia.

Eligible organizations and individuals can apply for funding to enhance leadership skills, improve service delivery, and strengthen their teams. Grant funds can be used for training programs that develop effective supervisors, managers, and leaders within the social services sector. This includes sending your staff for training, bringing training into your organization or community, or developing training in-house that you can offer to the social services sector, i.e., training for the sector, by the sector.

This project is funded by the Government of Canada and the Province of BC’s Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. The Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training (ASPECT BC) is delivering this project on behalf of the organizations making up the Social Services Sector Roundtable Reference Group.

Please note that government employees, health care employees, agencies from outside BC, and employees working outside BC are not eligible for this grant. Additionally, To be eligible for funding, training must take place in British Columbia and be delivered by a BC-based organization or trainer.

ASPECT reserves the right to remove or add restrictions based on ongoing feedback and evolving needs of the sector during the length of the project.