Apply Now for the Supervisor Training Grant

Support for supervisory, leadership, and management training in BC’s social services sector.

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

This grant is intended to support access to supervisory, leadership, and management training within BC’s social services sector. This includes:

  • Supervisor training (e.g. workshops, certificates, in-person or online courses)
  • Hiring external trainers or facilitators
  • Developing in-house training for your sector (Training for the sector, by the sector)
  • Travel and accommodation expenses for training, specifically for rural and remote organizations 
  • Child care support (up to $500 per person, if training is outside regular working hours)
  • 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

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.

Apply Below or visit https://form.jotform.com/ASPECT_info/leadership-training-grant