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Step three
Students train on the community's own project, not a practice yard.
The model is straightforward: the community already needs a road, a pad, drainage, land cleared or a trail built. The training runs on that work. The community finishes with the project completed and with trained members who helped build it.
Training delivered on site, on the community's own infrastructure project. Photograph from the project archive.
The delivery model
Why the work is real work
Running training on an actual project rather than a practice site changes four things at once, and each of them matters to a funder as much as to a participant.
- The community gets an asset. The same money produces both trained people and a completed piece of infrastructure, which is a materially better return than training alone.
- Participants build a real record. Hours on a live site, in varied ground and weather, against a schedule — which is what an employer asks about, and what a practice yard cannot produce.
- Retention is higher. People stay in a program where the work visibly matters to their own community.
- The outcome is photographable and auditable. A finished road is evidence. It appears in the final report as a fact rather than a claim.
What a program contains
Programs are built to the project and the funding, so the shape varies. The documented full-length operator program is a 16-week, field-weighted course combining classroom instruction with substantial machine time, structured so that field training is the majority of the program and classroom work supports it.
| Component | What it involves |
|---|---|
| Classroom instruction | Theory, safety, pre-operational inspection, site awareness, ground conditions, and the written components of certification. |
| Field training | Seat time on the community's project. Excavator, dozer, wheel loader, articulated rock truck, motor grader, skid steer, backhoe. |
| Safety certification | The tickets the work requires — chainsaw, bear awareness, ground disturbance, WHMIS, TDG, gas detection and others as the site demands — sourced, scheduled and paid for inside the program budget. |
| Employment connection | Engagement with the employers identified at scoping — band businesses, regional contractors, the community's own works department. |
| Contractor development | For participants who intend to work for themselves: small business and contracting fundamentals, so capacity stays in the community. |
Reporting that closes out the agreement
Delivery is only finished when the funder accepts the final report. We run the tracking from intake — participant records, attendance, certifications issued, expenditures against budget lines, completed work documented — so the report is assembled from data collected as it happened rather than reconstructed afterwards.
What we do not claim
We publish no employment-outcome percentage on this site. The figures in the historical program record are self-reported and undated, and we will not put a number in front of a funder that we cannot source and date. Signed letters of reference from past community partners are available on request, and they say what they say.
Delivered where the work is
Programs run in the community, on the community's site. Where a project needs equipment, curriculum or instructors the community does not have, we bring them. Where the community has its own instructors, we would rather develop them — see FAST.
Also delivered
Facilitators Advanced Skills Training for your own instructors and supervisors.
Turnkey curriculum licensing if you want to run the program yourself.
A conversation if you are not yet sure which of these your community needs.
Evidence
What a completed program leaves behind
Filmed on site at a funded heavy equipment operator training project in West Kelowna, British Columbia, and published by the Government of British Columbia.
“Training Heavy Equipment Operators”
- Certified operators who trained in their own community
- A completed piece of community infrastructure
- The certifications employers actually ask for
- Graduates positioned to form their own contracting businesses
Video published by the Government of British Columbia.
Read the full track recordIs there work the community already needs done?
A road, a pad, drainage, land to clear, a trail to build. That project is usually the training site — and the reason a funder can justify the program at all.