NEWS RELEASE
SIMCOE MUSKOKA SKILLFORCE
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For over 25 years, the Simcoe Muskoka Workforce Development Board and the Simcoe Muskoka Literacy Network has been serving our local communities
with enhanced workforce and literacy services.
In 2022, the Simcoe Muskoka Workforce Development Board and Literacy Network amalgamated to deliver training and workforce development needs to Simcoe Muskoka in an effective, unified, and fiscally responsible way. This dynamic partnership agreed their collective organization needed a re-branding designed to reflect both organizations collectively in a simplified way with a shorter, condensed title and fresh new brand. Introducing: Simcoe Muskoka Skillforce.
Skillforce is the new identity and brand for the Simcoe Muskoka Workforce Development and Literacy Network organization, and is the start of an exciting new chapter, collectively working to develop and deliver training and essential skills development for the Simcoe County and Muskoka communities. Along with the re-brand, stakeholders can visit the new, easy-to-use website and related social media channels on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook – designed to make local labour market information, trends and resources simple and effortless to access.
"We're excited to unveil our new brand and website to reflect the cohesive and effective approach to the training and essential skills development in Simcoe County and Muskoka," said Kelly McKenna, executive director of Simcoe-Muskoka Skillforce. "Our new brand identity represents the unification of two well-established organizations and positions us to continue enhancing workforce and literacy services by coordinating, planning and innovating with our community partners.”
Simcoe/Muskoka Skillforce is a non-profit, charitable organization that operates with a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of representatives from a variety of community stakeholders.
Simcoe/Muskoka Skillforce is the first organization in Ontario to amalgamate the functions of a Workforce Development Board. The organization is partly funded by the government of Canada and the government of Ontario.
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