Future Skills Grant Programs

Programs eligible for StrongerBC's Future Skills Grant funding:

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 - 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 – 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 – Mapping with Drones

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 – 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.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant Sustainability Skills for Construction Management

This micro credential empowers construction professionals in British Columbia to lead sustainable and resilient construction projects with confidence. Through hands on, applied learning in green building practices and sustainability planning, learners gain job ready skills to meet regulatory requirements and support low carbon construction outcomes.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant Sustainability Planning and Reporting

This online and self-paced micro credential teaches practical, transferable, sustainability planning and reporting skills applicable across industries. Learners develop a usable sustainability plan they can apply directly to their own projects or organizations.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Practical Leadership for Technology and Engineering

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Wound Management for Health Professionals Level 2

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

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Introduction to Health Impact Assessment

This Introduction to Health Impact Assessment (HIA) program is a professional development opportunity that equips public health or environmental professionals with the specialized skills needed in the HIA process, enhancing community well-being and the health outcomes of major projects and policy developments.

StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Palliative Care Pharmacy

This online program enables pharmacists to acquire the specialized knowledge to support palliative care patients and their families, as well as other members of the interprofessional team, in pain and symptom management, adverse events, deprescribing, use of opioids, and cancer-associated thrombosis.