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The Guaranteed Free Training Program provides workforce development grants for basic skills and information technology training for eligible Pennsylvania businesses and their employees.

For basic skills training grants manufacturing or technology-based businesses may apply. For information technology training grants front-line employees and supervisors of manufacturing companies are eligible for applied manufacturing technology training. Information technology professionals of any company, except point-of-sale retail businesses, are also eligible.

For basic skills training grants, basic or entry-level skills training is eligible according to the type and scope of business being conducted by the employer. For information technology training grants training must meet recognized industry skill standards, including, but not limited to, training resulting in certification. For both programs the employer must verify that participating employees earn 150% of minimum wage, work full-time and are Pennsylvania residents. Grants provide up to $450 per eligible employee/trainee for the basic skills training grant, and up to $700 per eligible employee/trainee for the information technology training grant.

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Northwest Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center
Hugh C. Wolcott, Manufacturing Outreach Director
1525 East Lake Road Erie, PA 16511-1088
814-456-6299 FAX 814-459-6058
e-mail: hwolcott@nwirc.org

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