Supporting Skilled Trades Students

This toolkit provides Ontario post-secondary campus staff with context, knowledge, resources, and tools to better support skilled trades students and the unique factors they face, affecting their mental health and wellbeing. This document is not meant to serve as a discourse on the trade industry. Instead, it aims to discuss the challenges trades students may face and the changes post-secondary institutions can focus on regarding their safety, health, and wellbeing. This toolkit is a living document, meaning that as we continue to learn about this subject, more will be added to reflect wise, emerging, and best practices. Although there is limited research available on skilled trades students and their mental health and wellbeing, at every opportunity, the information presented has been informed by research.