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CUSTOMIZED
TRAINING PROGRAM
Upgrade Your Workers' Skills with the
Customized Training Program
Program Overview
The Customized
Training program was established in 1992 and is a powerful
economic development tool designed to create and retain high-skill,
high-wage private sector jobs in New Jersey as a means to
ensure a productive, globally competitive workforce. A primary
focus of this program is to support the manufacturing sector
in New Jersey.
In today's economy,
trained and effective workers can mean the difference between
a competitive business and an extinct business. The Customized
Training initiative is a component of the Workforce Development
Partnership program and is funded by a small allocation from
employers and workers.
Our Customized
Training Office can help employers tailor training programs
that improve their workers' production capabilities and their
bottom line.
The office can:
- Offer financial
incentives for worker training to help create new jobs or
retain jobs in New Jersey.
- Assist companies
in becoming more competitive in the domestic and international
markets.
- Recommend skills
training programs and customize them to provide maximum
benefit to the businesses.
- Provide training
grants for occupational safety and health training.
- Provide training
grants for basic literacy skills including English as a
second language.
- Be a liaison
with other state agencies that promote job retention or
expansion.
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Eligibility
Potential eligible
applicants for a Customized Training grant include:
- Individual employers.
- An employer
organization, labor organization or community-based organization.
- A consortium
comprising one or more educational institutions and one
or more individual employers or labor, employer or community-based
organizations that seek to address common training needs
in demand occupations within a particular industry.
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Literacy/Basic Skills Program Overview:
This program provides
funding for basic skills training to qualified displaced,
disadvantaged, and employed workers. The intent of the program
is to improve worker skills and assist New Jersey business
to create new jobs, prevent the loss of jobs, offset competition
from competing states and/or economic regions, provide cost
efficiency, and provide opportunity for career and economic
advancement to New Jersey's labor force.
Examples of basic
skills are reading comprehension, basic math, basic computer
literacy, English proficiency, and work-readiness skills.
Potential eligible
applicants for a Basic Skills grant include:
" An individual
New Jersey employer.
" An employer organization, labor organization, community-based
organization, or a consortium made up of one or more educational
or training institutions seeking basic skills training assistance
to upgrade the job-related literacy skills of their current
employees or potential employees.
" Basic Skills Services are also available through individual
applications or consortium applications for qualified displaced
and/or disadvantaged workers, as long there is a written commitment
from an employer(s) leading to future employment.
Applications for Customized Training and Literacy/Basic Skills
can be obtained by calling : (609)
292-2239 or write to:
New
Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Office of Customized Training
P.O. Box 933
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0933
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