The Louisiana Community and Technical College System believes it will retrain 5,000 workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic by its April target through its “Reboot Your Career” program.
“Critical that they have someplace to go and someplace to be able to find that next level of training and next level of direction. It’s an exciting time to see the impact that our colleges are able to have,” said LCTCS President Monty Sullivan.
Before the end of the year, Sullivan says 1,500 workers will have completed the program.
“There is a whole wide range of different certifications that are available, but we really anticipate that by end of March we will very likely have gone through and provided training to the 5,000 that we targeted, to begin with,” said Sullivan.
As for costs, Sullivan says it varies by program, the CARES funding acts as a performance-based reimbursement to community colleges and technical schools, so the courses are discounted for participants.
As for finding a job once you’ve been trained, Sullivan says that’s also part of the program.
“Part of the initiative involves our economic development partners and business partners to make sure that we know on the front end what training is needed in the community, which helps dramatically with placement,” said Sullivan.
Industries looking for workers where training is offered are health care, transportation, and logistics, information technology, manufacturing and construction.
For more information about the program visit the Louisiana Community and Technical College website and search for Reboot Your Career.
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