OYAP Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program & OYAP FAST

OYAP-FAST allows students to earn credits toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) and hours that could be applied to becoming an apprentice by taking cooperative education courses for which the community component is an apprenticeship trade.  The Focused Apprenticeship Skills Training (FAST) is an accelerated stream within OYAP that will allow students in Grades 11 and 12 to participate in more apprenticeship learning through additional cooperative education credits while completing their OSSD. A student must be registered in a 2 or 4-credit co-op and have completed parent/guardian consent to participate in OYAP Fast. 

OYAP participants are students who are in a cooperative education placement in an apprenticeship trade.

OYAP is an option for secondary school students who meet the eligibility criteria. 

To be eligible for participation in OYAP, students must: 

• Have successfully completed a minimum of 14 credits toward their OSSD; 

• Be at least 15 years of age; and, 

• Be enrolled full-time or part-time in a secondary school at a DSB. 

OYAP-FAST (Focused Apprenticeship Skills Training) 

OYAP-FAST is an accelerated stream within OYAP that allows students to participate in more apprenticeship learning while working towards their OSSD. 

To be eligible for OYAP-FAST), students must: 

• Meet the OYAP eligibility requirements (see section 2.5); 

• Have a signed parent consent form to participate in FAST (see section 3.1.2.). Students participating in OYAP-FAST must: 

• Earn 8 to 11 cooperative education credits with their placement component in the skilled trades; • Register as an apprentice (obtain an RTA) by the time they complete the 8th cooperative education credit. 

Once a student has completed these requirements and all other OSSD requirements, they will be awarded the OYAP-FAST seal on their OSSD. Please refer to Ontario Schools for additional details.