Second Career Program Popular

Several area residents are taking advantage of a provincial program that helps them retrain for a second career.

Ontario's Second Career program covers the cost of training for eligible laid-off workers.

Executive Director of NCDS Career Works Jenny Greenhalgh says its helped about 130 people in this district.

"Ontario provided funds approximately $2-million over the past sixteen months to allow local people to be retrained," says Greenhalgh.

Greenhalgh says paramedic training, business accounting and personal support worker are some of the programs where laid-off workers have been drawn to.