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Community Care Employment Project

Foundational Learning

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Foundational Learning
General Inquiries
 foundational.learning@lakelandcollege.ca
 780 871 5773
 

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This credential-based program can help you enter the personal care work force or prepare you for future training.

Begin or continue your educational journey by earning 2 credits towards your Adult 12 diploma. We've got you covered—you'll be earning both credentials and Adult 12 credits, setting you up for future success.

Schedule and tuition

Saskatchewan residents may qualify for additional funding. 

This program starts on Sept 2, 2025, with a mandatory orientation and ends on Dec 23, 2025.

Classes run all day Monday through Friday.

Applicants should be:
  • 18 years old and out of school for at least a year
  • unemployed or marginally employed
  • able to complete Accuplacer assessment at Lakeland
  • on Employment Insurance (EI) or on Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS)

Serious consideration given to applicants with valid Saskatchewan Health card and proof of Saskatchewan residency.

You will have 15 weeks of in-person learning and 3 weeks of Employment Training.

To earn a certificate you need to:

  • complete a required number of module components in each course within the CCEP
  • must maintain a 90% or higher attendance record to achieve a pass in all project modules

Project content includes:

  • Food Safety credential
  • Safety in the workplace 
  • Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) credential
  • Red Cross First Aid CPR "C" certificate 
  • Red Cross Mental Health First Aid certificate
  • Computer Applications and Digital Literacy
  • SK Ministry Adult 12 Credit - Financial Literacy 30
  • SK Ministry Adult 12 Credit - Early Learning and Supportive Care 30
  • 80-hour Work Practicum

If you are a Saskatchewan resident on employment insurance, you may be approved for this program through CanSK Lloydminster. However, you will need to be approved before starting training.

Yes, if you are receiving SIS you can be approved into programming and become eligible for the Education and Training Incentive (ETI) or Saskatchewan Employment Incentive (SEI) when working and have children. 

Yes, if you are an eligible Saskatchewan resident.

Alberta residents may attend this program as well. Course fees will apply.

No. Course materials are provided.

If you would like to take part in this program, please complete the online Foundational Learning application form.

Lakeland College reserves the right to cancel a program due to low enrolment.

You will receive a 100% refund if you withdraw on or before the date that 20% of the program has been completed.

Not showing up isn't the same as withdrawing. Please contact us.

The date to withdraw from this program, with a full refund, is Sept 22, 2025.

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Foundational Learning
Maricris Subia
 maricris.subia@lakelandcollege.ca
 780 871 5773