The retraining Programme
To develop a force of potential workers, retrained to industry standards and adaptable to changing industry needs.
Unemployed or underemployed persons from 25 to 60 years of age and incarcerated men and women.
The Retraining Programme focuses on re-tooling and re-skilling unemployed or underemployed persons, 25 to 60 years of age, enabling them to enter/re-enter the job market. It also facilitates the rehabilitation of the incarcerated (Maximum Security, Golden Grove Men and Women prisons, and the Youth Training Centre) in collaboration with the Ministry of National Security, to equip inmates with certified occupational and employability skills, necessary for earning a legitimate living through meaningful employment and self-employment.
The Programme offers training in basic vocational skills, while emphasis is also placed on the development of positive work habits and attitudes as well as the acquisition of entrepreneurial, interpersonal and communication skills.
Training is conducted in cycles with three hundred (300) persons per cycle, receiving training in a variety of technical and vocational skill areas. Skill training covers a period of twelve (12) weeks, comprising two hundred and forty (240) contact hours. Participants are certified through the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) and the Trinidad and Tobago National Vocational Qualification (TTNVQ).
107 inmates (out of which 8 are women) have graduated after completing 480 training hours in construction skills, 192 hours in information technology and 144 hours in life skills.
