Apply now for free fall training!

May 21, 2026

Applications are now being accepted for free training being offered through the Joint Career Development Program this fall!

Funding for this training was secured by ACFO-ACAF in the CT Collective Agreement, which means you can participate in this employer-approved training at no cost! Here’s what is being offered this fall and how you can apply.

Please read to the end for important information about program and lottery eligibility.

NCR Interchange

The NCR Interchange Program takes a group of CTs who live and work outside of the National Capital Region to Ottawa-Gatineau for a week to help them better understand the realities and challenges of working in a national headquarters or central agency.

Members selected for this program will have all travel and accommodation expenses covered while they participate in the interchange.

A fall offering of the NCR Interchange will take place from November 2 – 6.

This training is being allocated via random lottery so please confirm your availability and approval with your manager then apply today. Applications close at 11:59pm ET on June 28.

Quebec Region Interchange

The Regional Interchange Program takes a group of CTs who live and work in the National Capital Region out to a region for a week to help them better understand the realities and challenges of working in a regional office.

As with the NCR Interchange, members selected for this program will have all travel and accommodation expenses covered.

A fall offering of the Regional Interchange will take place in Montreal from October 26 – 30.

This training is also being allocated via random lottery so please confirm your availability and approval with your manager then apply today. Applications close at 11:59pm ET on June 28.

Note: this interchange is conducted primarily in French.

Apply for a spot in an interchange today!

CT Academy: Management Track

CT Academy programs offer participants the most immersive learning experience available to members of the CT Community. These multi-modal, multi-step learning journeys take a cohort of members through a series of courses, workshops and exercises geared to their specific stream of work or career stage, allowing for deep and meaningful learning experiences along with the opportunity to extend their professional networks.

The CT Academy: Management Track is for members who are new in supervisory roles or those about to take on such responsibilities. Typically, these are experienced CT-FIN or CT-IAU-02s or CT-EAV-04s, or they are newly-appointed CT-FIN or CT-IAU-03s or CT-EAV-05s.

Participants will take part in classroom courses, small-group discussions and self-directed exercises related to the following topics:

Communicating as a leader
Emotional intelligence for leaders
Ethical leadership
Leading for impact

Participants will also receive a personalized EQ for Leaders report and coaching session to highlight their emotional intelligence skills and areas for growth as they navigate the process of becoming a leader.

This term we will be offering:

Two standard delivery cohorts in English
One intensive delivery cohort in French

The classroom courses in the standard delivery cohorts take place in person and attendance at each session is required, so please confirm your availability before applying. The dates can be found here. There is no travel support available for standard delivery cohorts.

Participants in the French intensive cohort will need to be available to attend training onsite in Ottawa from August 24 through August 28. Travel support will be provided for up to six participants from outside the NCR for the intensive cohort only. Participants will also need to complete work and participate in online discussions before and after the training, though timing will be more flexible.

This training is also being allocated via random lottery so apply today! Applications close at 11:59pm ET on June 28

Apply now!

Classroom training

A wide range of classroom courses are once again on offer, with popular topics available in online and in-person delivery formats. See a complete list of dates, languages and formats at this link.

Applications close at 11:59pm ET on June 28.

Apply now!

Eligibility

All programs being offered in the fall semester this year are open to all ACFO-ACAF public service members, with the restriction that only NCR members are eligible for the Regional Interchange and only regional members are eligible for the NCR Interchange.

For all programming allocated via the JCDP lottery, members are given an equal chance of being selected subject to the following conditions:

Members who received free training through the JCDP in the previous calendar year are deprioritized in the lottery. This doesn’t mean they can’t be selected, it only means that members who didn’t receive training at all will get first priority.
Members who have participated in an Interchange at any point, not just in the last year, will be given lowest priority for the interchange slots.
Members can only participate in the CT Academy: Management Track once.