Legacy Programs

Be More Than A Bystander (BMTAB) is a training and educational program to support organizational and cultural shifts towards more welcoming, healthy, safe and respectful workplaces. The training equips participants with practical tools and strategies to intervene and end cycles of bullying, harassment and violence in the skilled trades industry. BMTAB focuses on addressing gender-based and other forms of bullying, harassment and violence.

The goal of the Leaders in Trades program is to increase the number of tradespeople from equity priority groups (Indigenous, racialized people, 2SLGBTIAQ+, immigrants, people with disabilities, women) in leadership positions as both volunteers and staff within the skilled trades sector in British Columbia. Participants actively represent themselves, their trades, their regions, their identities, and their communities.

The BCCWITT Career Advancement Bursary provides funding for equity priority tradespeople of all genders, including tradespeople who are Indigenous, racialized people, 2SLGBTIAQ+, immigrants, people with disabilities, and women in British Columbia who are facing barriers in advancing in their trades journey, to help them access training, tools, certifications, networking, and educational opportunities.

The BCCWITT Project Grant provides seed funding for Leaders in Trades program participants to organize, coordinate, and host initiatives that promote skilled trades careers to youth and equity priority people of all genders across British Columbia, and recruit them to the skilled trades.