Workforce Alliance Earns Grant to Train Health Care Workers | Jobs & Training Buzz | Florida

Jobs & Training — Workforce Alliance was awarded a $134,790 grant by the State of Florida to fund a workforce training program aimed at meeting the high need for skilled health care workers in Palm Beach County.

The program is titled the Palm Beach County Healthcare Workforce Initiative. The funding enables Workforce Alliance to form a partnership with employers in the healthcare field, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and the Jupiter Medical Center, and initiate a strategy for recruitment and training of participants for healthcare jobs. For persons already employed in the health care field, the program will fund training for higher qualified positions.

“Despite the loss of jobs in a variety of other sectors in the past year, the demand for skilled healthcare workers in Palm Beach County continues to rise,” said Kathryn Schmidt, President and CEO of Workforce Alliance. “This grant gives opportunities to many people for employment or better, higher skilled employment and contributes greatly to our mission of helping to drive economic growth in our County through innovative workforce solutions.”

Participants in the training phase who are unemployed will be eligible to enroll in a credential-based Allied Health or Nursing course at any education and training provider with an active contract with Workforce Alliance to provide healthcare-related training. There are ten such educational providers and all are listed on the Workforce Alliance website, www.pbcalliance.com under “job seeker / training opportunities.”

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