Local Training Boards


Local Boards are independent not-for-profit corporations sponsored by the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities. These organizations, led by Business and Labour at the local level, include representation from other constituencies that have an important stake in the vitality of their local labour market, namely: Educators, Trainers, Women, Francophones, Persons with Disabilities, Visible Minorities, Youth, Aboriginals and other relevant sectors of local economies.

The primary role of the 21 Local Boards currently in operation across the province is to help improve the conditions of their local labour market by:

  • engaging communities in a locally-driven process to identify and respond to the key Trends, Opportunities and Priorities that prevail in their local labour markets;
  • facilitating a local planning process where community organizations and institutions agree to initiate and/or implement joint actions to address local labour market issues of common interest;
  • creating opportunities for partnership development activities and projects that respond to more complex and/or pressing local labour market challenges;
  • organizing events and undertaking activities that promote the importance of education, training and skills upgrading to youth, parents, employers, employed and unemployed workers, and the public in general.

We invite you to visit the Local Boards provincial website to find out about their activities, achievements, and innovative online resources such as their Partnerships Database where you can find valuable information on more than one thousand projects that have been carried out in response to current and future local labour market challenges.

For more details on Local Boards' activities, resources and geographical locations, follow this link: www.localboards.on.ca.