As a parent, you want to provide your teen with the best possible tools to make important career decisions. OYAP is a valuable tool which can assist your teen in discovering his/her talents, abilities and interests. Consider these points:

• Apprenticeships are often the first step in a career path which can lead to supervisory, administrative or management positions, or to a self-employed business career.
• The skilled trades offer well paid career opportunities and the potential for job satisfaction in challenging careers to bright, motivated students.
• Students who participate in OYAP will be trained in a specific set of skills leading to a registered apprenticeship program and will be able to obtain apprenticeship hours, new skills and high school credits at the same time.
• The knowledge and talent of the partners involved in OYAP creates the best possible learning in state-of-the-art training environments for apprentices in the program. 
• Apprenticeship training is funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Apprentices do not need huge student loans to pay tuition like college or university students.