The Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund supplies employers and training providers with the funding to develop programs that will train new workers to address employers’ hiring needs. Read more in the following brochure.
Recursos y herramientas para desarrollar habilidades para una economía fuerte
The Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund supplies employers and training providers with the funding to develop programs that will train new workers to address employers’ hiring needs. Read more in the following brochure.
CTI is a signature initiative of the Workforce Skills Cabinet, a collaborative effort between the Executive Offices of Labor and Workforce Development, Education, and Housing and Economic Development. Learn more in this brochure!
El Programa del Fondo de Capacitación de la Fuerza Laboral (Workforce Training Fund Program, WTFP) ayuda a abordar los temas de productividad y competitividad de las empresas al proporcionar recursos a las empresas de Massachusetts para financiar la capacitación de los empleados existentes y los empleados recién contratados. De manera que la economía de Massachusetts prospere, y nuestras empresas puedan seguir siendo competitivas y continúen creciendo, necesitan tener acceso a una fuente de trabajadores cualificados. Lea a continuación para ver cómo nuestros programas de subvenciones pueden ayudar a su negocio a prosperar.
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The Career Technical Initiative (CTI) has been a welcomed training model, introduced by the Baker-Polito Administration in 2020, to stimulate talent pipelines and fuel innovation for technical roles, including culinary, skilled trades, and manufacturing jobs. The program provides more Massachusetts residents access to career technical training by using the state’s existing resources at vocational high schools, while simultaneously helping businesses grow by increasing the number of skilled workers able to be employed in trade and construction jobs.
WCTF grants expand training capacity to upskill new workers and address employers’ hiring needs across a broad range of occupations within industries such as healthcare, IT, transportation, and hospitality.
The enabling legislation for WCTF (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2WWW) calls for a report to be filed annually with the Secretary of Administration and Finance; the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means; and the Joint Committees on Community Development and Small Business, Education, Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Labor and Workforce Development, and Public Health. The report must include the number of educational and eligible service providers receiving grants and participants receiving services and placed in employment, as well as the salary and benefits that participants receive after placement, the cost per participant, and job retention or promotion rates for the year after training ends.
The enabling legislation for the Workforce Training Fund (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2RR) calls for a report to be filed with the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development and the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, by September 1 of each year. The report addresses grants made during the previous fiscal year together with such recommendations and additional information as considered appropriate.
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In an effort to support the ongoing economic recovery and growth objectives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Workforce Skills Cabinet (WSC) is introducing the Scaling Capacity and Leveraging Employers (SCALE) Planning Grant. These funds are aligning public and private resources across the system to scale effective education-to-employment pathways that better position residents who want to be hired into jobs that businesses need filled.
El Programa de Demostración de Desarrollo de la Fuerza Laboral de Reingreso (RWDDP, por sus siglas en inglés) es una iniciativa de la Oficina Ejecutiva de Trabajo y Desarrollo de la Fuerza Laboral, que está dirigida por la Secretaria Rosalin Acosta. El programa apoya los esfuerzos del Gobernador Baker para mejorar los resultados de la fuerza laboral entre las personas que regresan a sus comunidades después del encarcelamiento (es decir, los ciudadanos que regresan). El programa es administrado por Commonwealth Corporation, que es supervisado por la Oficina Ejecutiva de Trabajo y Desarrollo de la Fuerza Laboral. Este programa de subvenciones se financia a través de una Ley de asignación general en el presupuesto estatal del año fiscal 2021 (FY21) (7003-0150). El siguiente informe legislativo describe las funciones administrativas del programa y los resultados del cliente.