Wyoming Department of Workforce Services

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Business Training Grants

Business Training Grants can provide funds for established Wyoming businesses for employees who need a skill upgrade or need re-training in their current occupations. In order for training to be approved, the business must demonstrate the following:

• Training will either correct an employee's skill deficiency or upgrade an employee's current skill level;
• There is a direct relationship between the training and the trainee's occupation or craft;
• The training is not normally provided by the business;
• The business will not substitute funds normally provided for training or funds obtained from another source with Business Training Grant funds;
• There is a need for the skill upgrade provided by the training for the business to remain competitive in the industry or economy; and
• The skill upgraded provided by the training will:
  • Enhance the business's productivity, efficiency or profitability;
  • Reduce employee turnover;
  • Enhance employee effectiveness; or
  • Enhance employee wages.

Business Training Grant Rules

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Pre-Hiring Economic Development Grants

These grants focus on creating a trained workforce for specific Wyoming industry. The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services recognizes the importance of an educated, skilled workforce in promoting Wyoming's economic growth. To foster this growth, the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services assist employers with the Pre-Hire Economic Development Grant Program.

The Pre-Hire Economic Development Grant Program is available to train potential employees for a new or expanding business that is unable to recruit workers with a specific skill set. Applications are completed through a partnering of four entities that contribute separate needs or services to the program:

• A training entity that can deliver the training, certificate or skills the business requires;
• A business, group of businesses or an industry with a need for workers;
• The local or regional economic development entity that will work within the local or regional economic network to provide assistance; and
• The local Workforce Center, which will assist in the recruitment of potential skilled workers, along with placement of trained participants.

Pre-Hire Applications and Instructions
Pre-Hire Application Additional Businesses Form
Pre-Hire Rules
Pre-Hire Final Report of Trainees
Pre-Hire Final Report Summary Template
Pre-Hire Grant Reimbursement Form

Pre-Obligation Grants

Pre-Obligation Grants are available to economic development entities to incentivize business recruitment and expansion. Applications are available for economic development entities to apply in collaboration with the business and blends Business Training Grants with a Pre-Hire Grant option as well. If a Pre-Obligation Grant is awarded, the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) will enter into a contract with the business to pre-obligate the necessary funds for training. An additional application for a Pre-Hire Grant is required under the pre-obligated funding and, if awarded, DWS will enter into a contract with the training entity. The pre-obligated funds bypass the monthly competitive application and award process for the Business Training Grants.

The total application amount shall not exceed an amount equivalent to two hundred (200) trainees multiplied by the maximum grant amount allowed for Business Training Grants which is determined by industry as follows:

• $1,000 per trainee per state fiscal year
• $1,500 per trainee in a preferred industry per state fiscal year

Pre-Obligation Application and Instruction
Pre-Obligation Rules

Apprenticeship Grants

The purpose of this funding is to develop an industry-specific workforce for business(es) or industries where there is a shortage of skilled workers.

Apprenticeship Grants are available to Wyoming-based sponsor(s) with U.S. DOL Office of Apprenticeship registered apprenticeship programs and Related Instruction Providers associated with a Wyoming-based sponsor. Only the formal related instruction component for the apprenticeship programs is eligible for funding consideration.

Please call (307) 777-8717 with questions.

Apprenticeship Grant Application Form
Additional Employer Information Form
Apprenticeship Grants Rules
Apprenticeship Final Report of Apprentices
Apprenticeship Final Report Summary Template
Apprenticeship Grant Reimbursement Form

Internship Grants (Coming Soon)

The purpose of this funding is to provide Wyoming businesses the opportunity to offer structured learning experiences to individuals through internships that enhance an individual's work skills, knowledge and abilities. Government entities, except Wyoming County Hospitals, are not eligible to participate. An internship should provide:

• A practical learning experience or project, given by a designated supervisor
• An opportunity to observe, contribute, and rotate through the different parts of the department/organization
• Career connections, mentorship, and networking opportunities within the organization/industry
• Training, either "formal" or on-the-job along with constructive, on-going feedback for personal and professional development