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 designed to train skilled workers in a particular business, businesses or industry. 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 Rules

Pre-Obligation Grants

For our economic development partners, the Workforce Development Training Fund sets aside funding for large relocation or expansion projects. Pre-Obligation of Workforce Development Training Fund funding allows economic developers the flexibility to request advance allocation of Workforce Development Training Fund funding in support of a new or expanding business in Wyoming. Pre-Obligated funds may only be requested by economic development entities, and any funding allocated through Pre-Obligation must be disbursed through an approved Pre-Hire Economic Development Grant and/or a Business Training Grant for New Positions.

Please note that applications for Pre-Obligation of Workforce Development Training Fund funding are typically not required for a grant application or project with a total cost of less than $50,000.

• 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.

Please call (307) 777-8717 with questions.

• Apprenticeship Grant Application Form
• Additional Employer Information Form
• Apprenticeship Grants Rules