Workforce Training

If you are operating a company, chances are you are training your employees. Take some time to look at some of the training incentive programs available. Contact us to check your eligibility and take advantage of some of the training funding that may be there for you. After all, by investing in your workforce, you are investing in our community!

KENTUCKY SKILLS NETWORK

The Kentucky Skills Network partners with new and existing companies to match employer needs with available workforce resources. Through options such as reimbursable grants and tax credits for classroom training, on-the-job training, tuition and certification training, train-the-trainer travel, and entry level and skills upgrade training, Kentucky has resources that allow flexible and customizable training specific to company needs.

Through the Cabinet for Economic Development and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), the Kentucky Skills Network administers the following training programs for new and expanding industry:

1. Grant-in-Aid (GIA)

The GIA program provides up to 50 percent reimbursement of eligible costs to companies/consortia for approved training activities.

2. Skills Training Investment Credit (STIC)

The STIC program provides tax credits to companies for up to 50 percent of company specific training activities.

3. KCTCS – Workforce Solutions

Through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, Workforce Solutions provides companies with grant funding to assist with the cost of KCTCS workforce training and assessment services to current, as well as, potential employees. Workforce Solutions funding is divided into incumbent worker and location/expansion projects.

For more information, please visit www.thinkkentucky.com/workforce

CENTRAL KENTUCKY JOB CENTER

The Central Kentucky Career Center realizes that private sector business is really the engine of our economy, so that’s why they have developed a broad menu of services for businesses. Each of these solutions are designed to maximize a businesses profits and potential.

For more information, please visit http://www.ckycareers.com/