Overview

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $2.5 million in grant funds for demand-driven regional approaches to meeting the workforce challenges of the long-term care sector of the health care industry under the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative.

Grant funds awarded under this Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) should be used to implement industry-driven training solutions that address the long-term care sector’s critical workforce challenges. Each solution must take place in the context of a regional strategic partnership between the workforce investment system, long-term care employers, and education and training providers, as well as other public and private sector partners that bring critical assets to the table. Proposed solutions should take full advantage of existing workforce development models, promising practices, and tools. Solutions must either take an existing promising solution, model, or approach to scale in the region or adapt a solution that has been demonstrated to have positive impact on the identified workforce development challenges in another region.

Applicants may be public, private for-profit, and private non-profit organizations. It is anticipated that average individual awards will be approximately $500,000.

To view a copy of the solicitation, please click here.

To view a copy of the press release, please click here.

Virtual Prospective Applicant Conference

A Webinar for prospective applicants will be held for this grant competition on March 5, 2007 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., EST. For more information and to register for the event, click here.