Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) is a school-to-work transition program offered through Ontario secondary schools.
Communications
- Memo: Updated OYAP Resources Available on the EOPG (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 105 KB)
- Sample - Email Sent to OYAP Providers (posted on March 14, 2025) (PDF, 125 KB)
- Memo: Support for Asylum Seekers (posted on November 27, 2023) (PDF, 105 KB)
- Memo: 2022-2023 Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program Monitoring (posted on February 27, 2023) (PDF, 118 KB)
- Memo: Wrongdoing Expectations in Ontario Transfer Payment Agreements (posted on April 14, 2022) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Memo to District School Boards: New Skilled Trades Ontario Portal for Apprentices and Sponsors (posted on January 26, 2022) (PDF, 212 KB) (Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions.)
- Memo: OYAP Participant Application Form (posted September 2013) (PDF, 89 KB)
General
- OYAP 2024-2025 Program Guidelines (posted on December 18, 2024) (PDF, 490 KB)
- OYAP Exemptions (posted on June 3, 2022) (PDF, 141 KB)
Registered Training Agreement
- Process Guide - Registering Training Agreements for OYAP Participants (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 120 KB)
- Process Guide – Level 1 In-Class Training (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 125 KB)
- Process Guide – Updating the Special Program Outcome of Participants (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 115 KB)
Planning
- Non-college In-Class Training Request Form (posted on December 6, 2023) (PDF, 49 KB) (Download and open with Adobe Reader. See instructions.)
Financial
- Budget Guidelines 2024-2025 (posted on April 19, 2024) (PDF, 132 KB)
Reporting
- Reporting and EOIS-APPR Due Dates (posted on June 28, 2024) (PDF, 158 KB)
Program Participation
- Participation by Trade/Language/Gender 2023-2024 (posted on December 18, 2024) (Excel, 27 KB)
- Registration by Trade/Language/Gender 2023-2024 (posted on December 18, 2024) (Excel, 32 KB)
- Participation by Trade/Language/Gender 2022-2023 (posted on January 10, 2024) (XLSX, 25 KB)
- Registration by Trade/Language/Gender 2022-2023 (posted on January 10, 2024) (XLSX, 24 KB)
- Participation by Trade/Language/Gender 2021-2022 (posted on December 8, 2022) (PDF, 415 KB)
- Registration by Trade/Language/Gender 2021-2022 (posted on December 8, 2022) (PDF, 942 KB)
School College Work Initiative (SCWI)
- Pathways to Apprenticeship: Options for Secondary School Students (posted on February 15, 2022)
- SCWI In-Class Training Request Form (posted on November 23, 2020)
Questions and Answers
- EOIS-APPR Completing-Withdrawing Questions and Answers (posted on August 10, 2017) (PDF, 334 KB)
- EOIS-APPR Questions and Answers (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 152 KB)
- Training Agreement Registration Process Questions and Answers (posted on March 31, 2025) (PDF, 145 KB)
Resources
- Apprenticeship in Ontario - Ontario.ca
- Prepare for apprenticeship – Ontario.ca
- Skilled Trades Ontario
- Homepage - OYAP
- Compulsory trades and enforcement – Ontario.ca
- The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Cooperative Education, 2018
- Dual Credit - The School College Work Initiative (scwi.ca)
Forms
For forms, please visit the forms page on this site.