Edison State College grant to train nearly 450 workers in Lee and Collier Counties
Jul 28, 2010
The Department of Continuing Education at Edison State College is selected to provide ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions to area manufacturing companies.
The courses will ultimately lead to hiring 168 new employees and upgrade skills of 261 existing employees in Lee and Collier County.
The ‘Train the Trainer’ workshops are made possible through a $383,112 grant from Workforce Florida. Beginning in August Edison State College Department of Continuing Education will host a series of seminars for existing managers in local manufacturing arenas. The seminars will help existing employees become skilled trainers for future new employees at their current company.
Through the Workforce Florida Grant participating manufacturing companies may attend the ‘Train the Trainer’ seminars at no cost. Additionally, participating manufacturing companies will receive grant funds to hire and train new employees.
“Edison State is extremely pleased to be selected to help Workforce Florida and local manufacturing companies in their expansion plans,” said Adrian Kerr, Director of Continuing Education at Edison State College. “This presents a terrific opportunity for job training and job growth right here in our communities.”
To date eight manufacturing companies are participating in the grant program. It is open to other interested businesses.
For more information, on the Workforce Grant and ‘Train the Trainer’ seminars please contact Adrian Kerr (239)432-5233.
For media inquiries contact, Catherine Bergerson, Director of Communications and Marketing, 239-489-9460 or cbergerson@edison.edu.
Edison State College is celebrating nearly 50 years of excellence in Southwest Florida. Edison State is the largest, most established, most accessible and most affordable school of higher education. We serve more than 20,000 students per year in 5 counties with campuses in Lee, Collier and Charlotte, and a center serving Hendry/Glades and a virtual campus, Edison Online. For more information please visit www.edison.edu. Edison State College, discover your genius.
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Last Updated: July 28, 2010
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