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BY SHELBIE HAMILTON
Over 840 new and current employees at North Texas-area businesses will benefit from state-funded training at Collin College. Representatives of the Texas Workforce Commission awarded four grants totaling $1.35 million to the college to cover the cost of over 26,000 hours of customized training for local employees. The grant comes from the commission’s Skills Development Fund program, which aims to support businesses through training of existing or new employees in high-demand occupations, a news release states. The grant funding will upgrade the skills of 714 currently employed workers and support the training of 130 new hires at 13 North Texas companies, of which 12 are located in Collin County. Collin College gets $1.3M grant
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Funding awarded
$362,157 For over 7,100 training hours at Amphenol Fiber Systems International, Cain Watters & Associates, Cates Control Systems and Natural Polymer International Corp. $353,072 For over 6,500 training hours at CSG Forte Payments Inc., FlexLink Systems Inc., Netrio, and Portable Solar $158,958 For 3,000 training hours at Helm Dental Laboratory and Unicom Engineering
The awards were presented by TWC Commissioner Representing Labor Alberto Treviño III during an April 9 ceremony at the Collin Higher Education Center in McKinney. The event also included comments from representatives of the benefitting businesses, along with representatives from Collin College and Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas. In her comments at the event, Mercedes Bolen, board chair of Workforce Solutions of North Central Texas, noted that Collin College has received $4.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants since 2015. “Workforce is all about creating opportunities, and that’s creating opportunities and better lives for individuals, but what that really does is ... creates a better community and better region for all of us,” Bolen said.
$478,770 To fund nearly 9,600 hours of training in the manufacturing career field at Encore Wire Corporation, StatLab Medical Products and AXL
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