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Train/Retrain Employees
In today’s dynamic business climate, it is crucial that potential and current employees receive the training they need to stay competitive. To ensure that Kansas workers remain on the cutting edge, Commerce administers its newly redesigned workforce services initiative, a comprehensive workforce services system that connects job seekers, educators, and businesses. Our workforce services system includes a variety of programs that help businesses find skilled employees and improve the skills of current workers. If you’re a business owner looking to increase your staff’s capabilities and productivity, then there is a workforce services program for you.
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Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program :
The Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program is an innovative certification program that targets individuals working in the childhood care and education field. (More...)
High Performance Incentive Program:
This program provides tax incentives to eligible employers that pay above-average wages and are committed to skills development for their workers. (More...)
Incumbent Worker Training:
This program provides grants to employers to assist with certain expenses associated with skills upgrade training for full-time employees of the company. (More...)
Investments in Major Projects and Comprehensive Training:
The IMPACT program is designed to respond to the training and capital requirements of major business expansions and locations in the state. (More...)
Kansas Industrial Retraining Program:
The KIR job retention program provides grants to restructuring companies whose employees are likely to be displaced due to obsolete or inadequate job skills or knowledge. (More...)
Kansas Industrial Training Program:
The KIT program provides funds to help new and expanding companies train workers for new jobs. (More...)
Rapid Response:
Rapid Response is a program designed to assist employers who are faced with staff reduction or layoff decisions. (More...)
Registered Apprenticeship:
The Registered Apprenticeship program is designed to provide employers with a skilled workforce while training existing workers in the latest technologies without loss of production time. (More...)
Tourism Scholarship Program:
This scholarship grant program provides funding assistance for the professional development and education of those individuals associated with and working in the tourism industry of Kansas. (More...)
Workforce Solutions Fund:
The Workforce Solutions Fund (WSF) allows the Kansas Department of Commerce (Commerce) to help postsecondary workforce training institutions throughout the state respond more effectively to the workforce training needs of critical industries in Kansas. Funds are strategically invested into projects designed to enhance Kansas post-secondary institutions’ training services and/or training capacity for the benefit of Kansas companies. (More...)