Business Training

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
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