Advanced Digital and Professional Training (ADaPT) for Black Youth Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are open for the Advanced Digital and Professional Training (ADaPT) for Black Youth Program 2025. The program helps Black youth in creating abilities for success, together with these to construct digital and skilled competencies and assist safe work. The program is for Black youth aged 15 to 29 throughout Ontario.

Program periods present coaching, work placement and employment assist, and profession development alternatives for Black youth. The program additionally offers tailor-made coaching to arrange contributors to work in sure industries, together with data and communications know-how. This program goals to make sure that Black youth have the assist they should discover and preserve significant, protected and dignified work in keeping with their abilities, potential and profession aspirations.

Topics Covered

The coaching is targeted on foundational, digital and skilled abilities. The matters coated on this program embody the next:

• Personal branding
• Career growth methods
• Project and time administration
• Business financials and instruments
• Microsoft Excel abilities
• Social media advertising
• Search engine optimization and Google Analytics
• Cybersecurity
• Artificial intelligence
• Interview abilities
• Resume abilities

Benefits

• The program is free to eligible contributors.
• A devoted profession coach will likely be assigned to assist you throughout this system. They will show you how to with resume and cowl letter writing, confidence constructing for interviews and general help for your job search. At the beginning of this system you may be invited to e-book time along with your assigned profession coach. You can e-book a number of periods relying in your wants and pursuits.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this program you will need to:

• Be aged 15 to 29 years previous;
• Identify as Black and
• Live in Ontario, Canada.

Application

The Winter cohort will run from January 8 – February 25, 2025. 

• Orientation January 8
• Program wrap-up and networking February 25

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to ADaPT for Black Youth Program.