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Workforce Wayne successfully implemented $95,000 in training dollars from a 2010-2011 PA Dept of Labor and Industry grant. A total of 4,800 training hours were completed and 293 were trained in Wayne/Pike Counties, six times what was originally submitted for the grant. Additionally, $106,881 was matched locally to the grant award. More than 30 businesses benefited as detailed below:
| Grantee |
Topic |
Business(es) who benefited |
Award amount |
# trained |
New Horizons
|
Cisco
|
Clarion Safety Systems; Im1design, LLC; National Park Service; People's National Bank; Top Notch Distributors; The Dime Bank; Wallenpaupack Area High School; Western Wayne School District
|
$21,200
|
9
|
Johnson College
|
API 1104 welding
|
Linde Corporation
|
$15,000
|
8
|
Wayne Memorial
|
Patient simulation
|
Wayne Memorial Hospital
|
$13,100
|
108
|
New Horizons
|
Comp TIA A+, Comp TIA Net+
|
Chorba Consulting, Inc.; Clarion Safety Systems; The Dime Bank; Wallenpaupack Area High School
|
$12,000
|
6
|
Penn State
|
Functional manager
|
The Honesdale National Bank
|
$10,000
|
17
|
Lackawanna College
|
Oil and gas accounting
|
Hess Corporation, Newfield Exploration
|
$6,429
|
3
|
Wayne Bank
|
Customer service
|
Wayne Bank
|
$4,000
|
72
|
Penn State
|
Customer service
|
Action Bikes and Outdoors; Altec Lansing; Clarion Safety Systems; CRL Electric; Hotel Fauchere; Pike County Conservation; Ray's Auto Repair; Sculpted Ice Works; Wayne/Pike Adult Literacy; Woodloch Pines
|
$3,900
|
18
|
Penn State
|
OSHA 10-hour construction
|
Beach Lake Sprinkler Corporation; JR Bea Construction; Leeward Construction; Linde Corporation; Wayne County Public Works; Woodloch Pines
|
$3,530
|
24
|
Northampton CC
|
CPR/AED and First Aid
|
Child Care Information Services; Leeward Construction
|
$3,530
|
19 |
Worobey Transp
|
HSE standards
|
Worobey Transport
|
$2,310
|
9
|
|
|
|
|
293 |
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