Quick Response Training Program (QRT)
The Quick Response Training Program (QRT) is customer-driven and designed as an inducement to secure new value-added businesses to Florida as well as provide existing businesses the necessary training for expansion. Through this incentive, Florida is able to effectively retain, expand and attract employers offering high-quality jobs. The program is flexible and structured to respond quickly to meet the business' training objectives. Workforce Florida, Inc., the state's public-private partnership created to coordinate job-training efforts, administers the program.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible projects are new or expanding/existing Florida businesses that produce exportable goods or services, create new permanent, full-time jobs and employ Florida workers who require customized entry-level skills training.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
- Training can be conducted at the business's own facility, at the training provider's facility, or at a combination of sites that best meets the needs of the business.
- Program instructors can be either full or part-time educators, vendors, subject matter experts or professional trainers from the business.
- A local training provider - community college, area vocational-technical center or university - is selected by the business to serve as the fiscal agent for the grant funds and is available to assist in the application process, program development and delivery. Training is limited to twenty-four months or less.
- The selection of trainees is the responsibility of the business. However, the training provider and/or local regional workforce development board is available to provide assistance in recruiting potential trainees for initial screening, if the business so desires. The business is also responsible for establishing criteria (such as education and skill levels) to select trainees.
For additional information contact the Economic Development Council of Tallahassee/Leon County, Inc. (850) 521-3111