Demand-Driven Training - Hallmark of Grants for Community Colleges - $2 Billion Initiative to Develop Targeted Training Programs for Unemployed Workers

Demand-Driven Training — Hallmark of Grants for Community Colleges

Speaking from Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colo., on Sept. 18, Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced the latest grants awarded under the Trade Adjustment Assistance and Community College Career Training program. This multiyear, nearly $2 billion initiative is helping to further develop targeted training programs for unemployed workers, especially those impacted by foreign trade, in growing industries such as advanced manufacturing, transportation and health care. The third installment of grants announced this week provided $474.5 million to fund projects at nearly 200 community colleges and universities in every state plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Front Range Community College will lead a nearly $25 million grant to a consortium of nine colleges across Colorado focused on expanding training curriculum for advanced manufacturing careers. During the announcement, Perez said: "This is an unprecedented investment in our community college system... and by extension in our people's ability to find solid work that can raise a family. This is about education, labor, business and community leaders coming together to meet the real-world challenges of a complex global economy." Perez was joined by Lt. Gov. Joseph Garcia, FRCC President Andy Dorsey, Colorado Community College System President Dr. Nancy McCallin, Executive Vice President of Mountainside Medical Peter Neidecker (one of the employer partners involved in the grant program), and FRCC precision machining student Sheri Dron. Following the announcement, Perez met with students from the school's automotive and machining programs to hear about the impact these funds will have on current and future students.

Source: DOL email 9/20/13

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