Future Skills Grant Programs

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant - Business Finance

StrongerBC Future Skill Grant application page for Business Finance Micro-Certificate

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

The Micro-certificate in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics (BIDA) provides you with the tools, plans and methods to help you give value and meaning to data, and guide you and your organization to success.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant - Canadian Fall Prevention Curriculum (CFPC)

This program is designed for those who are working with older adults in long-term, acute and home care, and who have an interest in creating fall prevention plans. Learn about fall risk assessment and prevention, universal fall precautions, as well as fresh approaches to successful and sustainable interventions.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Climate Action Planning

The Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning (CAP) is a great opportunity to learn the foundations of planning for climate action. You will develop the skills needed for you as a professional to put into action at all government levels.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant - Climate Activism

The Micro-certificate in Climate Activism will provide the skills and knowledge to build practices for organizing transformational change including strategic landscape analysis, effective communication, alliance-building strategies, and navigating cultural and institutional impediments to change. Learners and climate activists can choose to focus on issues such as Indigenous allyship, systems transformation or collaborative governance through an elective choice.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant - Continence Care Skills

A 12-week online program designed to equip healthcare workers with practical strategies for assessing, managing, and improving continence care while preserving patient dignity. Aimed at professionals such as nurses, caregivers, and physiotherapists, the course covers incontinence types, treatment options, pelvic floor health, and patient education to enhance care quality and outcomes.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The Micro-certificate in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) provides you with a robust knowledge base and essential skills to create inclusive and thriving workplaces for all. By recognizing the significance of EDI principles in both the public and private sectors, organizations are increasingly prioritizing their integration at all levels.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Essential Soft Skills Training

The Essential Soft Skills Training (ESST) micro-credential is a new six-week, part-time, instructor-led online program that will build learners’ competencies in critical soft skills: organizational skills, communication skills, critical thinking and team-building.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – GIS Skills and Mapping

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Skills and Mapping program aims to meet the growing demand for skilled professionals in spatial data analysis and mapping technologies. With a focus on GIS fundamentals, this six-week micro-certificate prepares learners for in-field employment and complements the courses in our Mapping with Drones program.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Inclusive Leadership Strategies

This micro-certificate provides you with the tools, plans and methods to help you give value and meaning to data, and guide you and your organization to success.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Indigenous Approaches to Governance in Canada

This micro-certificate provides foundational knowledge on concepts, themes and topics needed to understand and appreciate Indigenous approaches to governance. This includes historical and contemporary challenges facing Indigenous Peoples, including the Indian Act.

Display title: StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Indigenous Language Documentation

The Indigenous Language Documentation micro-certificate provides training for those looking to engage in language documentation and reclamation initiatives.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – LiDAR Fundamentals for Climate Change Risk Analysis

LiDAR Fundamentals for Climate Change Risk Analysis equips learners to use and analyze real-life LiDAR data for the purpose of assessing the impacts of climate change.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Mapping with Drones

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant - Organizational Preparedness and Adaptability

A six-week online program to help you become more proactive, rather than reactive, and to prepare your organization to withstand any crisis.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Politics, Policy and Climate Action

The Micro-certificate in Politics, Policy and Climate Action (PPCA) will provide insights into the policy and political contexts that shape climate action across scales from local to global, including relevant institutional and governance innovations. The program will also provide learners with skills and strategies for engaging and overcoming stagnation and polarization, as well as developing strategies that are responsive to climate science along with the social and ecological impacts.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Skill Building for Public Relations

The Micro-certificate in Skill Building for Public Relations is designed for new practitioners who want to boost their confidence, credibility and skills in the field of public relations. You will explore the fundamentals of public relations, such as communication planning, writing, social media, media relations, and the value of leadership skills in the public relations industry.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Strategies and Actions for Independent Living (SAIL)

The Strategies and Actions for Independent Living micro-certificate provides specialized training in fall prevention to broaden the skill set of home care aides and recognize their crucial role in improving their clients' quality of life.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Wound Care for Clients Experiencing Inequities

Learn to apply the latest best practices in wound management in a context of harm reduction and trauma-informed care for clients experiencing systemic inequities, including individuals living in unstable housing, facing socioeconomic challenges or using substances.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Wound Management for Health Professionals Level I

This comprehensive online course provides health professionals with the essential tools to confidently practice evidence-based wound management within an interprofessional team.