A federal program is offering a chance to become a health-care worker in the Okanagan-Shuswap.
With federal funding through the Canada-British Columbia Workforce Development Agreement, the BC Care Providers Association will be training health care assistants in Vernon and Salmon Arm.
Students enrolled in the program will receive skills training by way of the provincially approved curriculum for health care assistants, in partnership with Discovery Community College.
The program will be delivered over the course of 38 weeks, including 21 weeks for classroom theory and lab skills hours and 12 weeks for practice.
Training will be delivered three days a week for the classroom theory portion of the program, with varying clinical practice schedules.
The entire program consists of 780 hours of training.
