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Department of Workforce Services describes apprenticeship grants, internship program and training fund
Summary
The Department of Workforce Services briefed lawmakers on the Workforce Development Training Fund, apprenticeship grant programs, and student internship grants. Officials said internships have served over 100 students recently and apprenticeship expansion and apprenticeship training grants are supporting K–12 and industry occupations.
The Department of Workforce Services told the committee it administers the Workforce Development Training Fund and several grants used to upskill Wyoming workers, support employer-driven training and underwrite apprenticeships and internships.
Director Liz Gagan summarized the fund’s grant types — business training grants, pre-hire economic development grants, internship grants, apprenticeship grants and a young-adult internship grant funded by the Wyoming Innovation Partnership — and said the fund’s grants are structured by rule chapters. “The Workforce Development Training Fund was created in 02/2002, and we provide grants,…
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