The document summarizes a webinar about $220 million in Recovery Act grants for training workers for careers in high-growth industries like healthcare, information technology, and advanced manufacturing. The grants will provide up to $125 million for healthcare and $95 million for other emerging industries to fund projects that train unemployed, dislocated, and incumbent workers for in-demand jobs. Eligible applicants include workforce boards, education providers, and employers who must partner together on training programs that lead to credentials and employment. The webinar provided details on eligible activities, participants, and criteria for the competitive grants which will range from $2-5 million each over a 36 month period.

1. High Growth and Emerging Industries Webinar July 30, 2009

2. Recovery Act Competitive Grants Health Care Sector and Other High Growth and Emerging Industries $220 million Expect $125 million to health care sector projects, $95 million to high growth and emerging industries Purpose: Teach workers the necessary skills for, and help them pursue careers in, health care and other high growth and emerging industry sectors

3. High growth and emerging industries Industries being transformed by technology and innovation, requiring new skills for workers Examples Information technology Advanced manufacturing Wireless and broadband deployment Transportation and warehousing Biotechnology

4. High growth and emerging industries criteria Address current and forecasted workforce shortages Provide workers with paths to career enhancing opportunities in high growth, high demand and economically vital sectors of the economy

5. Criteria for targeted industry It is projected to add substantial numbers of new jobs to the economy It is being transformed by technology and innovation requiring new skill sets for workers OR It is a new and emerging industry projected to grow

6. Other Recovery Act Programs Encouraged to connect to other Recovery Act funded projects Department of Energy Department of Transportation Links to other Recovery Act Web sites found at http://recovery.gov/?q=content/agencies

7. Eligible Applicants Public entities or private nonprofit entities Must be legal entities May include Workforce Investment Boards and their One-stop systems Education and training providers Labor organizations Health care providers Faith-based and community organizations

8. Required Partners Must include one entity from each of the following three categories: Public workforce investment system Public and private employers The education and training community Secondary schools, community and technical colleges, four-year colleges and universities, apprenticeship programs, technical and vocational training institutions

9. Goal of including these partners Ensure applicants are maximizing available resources Ensure that individual participants will have all the support they need to successfully complete training, overcome barriers to employment, and obtain jobs and advance along career ladders

10. Other partners Nonprofit organizations with direct access to target populations Labor organizations: labor unions and labor-management organizations National, state and local foundations which focus on assisting participants served through the project State and local social service agencies that provide supportive services

11. Characteristics of training activities Lead to employment, and include training that Address skills and competencies demanded by the industries targeted Support participants advancement along a defined career pathway Result in an employer- or industry-recognized certificate or degree during the period of performance Convenient times and places Integrate occupational with basic skills training

12. Allowable Activities Classroom occupational training On-the –job training activities that lead to permanent employment Programs leading to Registered Apprenticeships Contextualized learning Internship programs Customized training Basic skills training Initial assessment of skill levels Job search and placement assistance Updating curriculum

13. Eligible Participants Unemployed workers Dislocated workers Incumbent workers who need training to secure full-time employment, advance their careers or retain their current occupations

14. Summary 45-65 grants Range from $2 to $5 million each Automotive: Clearwater and Ramsey counties in MN Closing date for applications October 5, 2009 36 month period of performance from date of execution of grant Webinar on August 12, 2009, 3 pm EDT at http://www.workforce3one.org