Successful Training and Effective Industry Partnerships for Growing Regional Opportunities in Workforce To Harness (STEPs4GROWTH)

Successful Training and Effective Industry Partnerships for Growing Regional Opportunities in Workforce To Harness (STEPs4GROWTH)

The North Carolina A&T State University’s STEPs4GROWTH project, funded by a $23.7 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge, is an equitable workforce development project. STEPs4GROWTH will provide quality, demand-driven, hands-on training to students from high schools, community colleges, and universities in different areas of the clean energy sector. With a focus on equity, the program will use mobile training units in 16 economically distressed North Carolina counties to remove barriers to access and deliver training where workers are. Additionally, the project will serve as a national training model that will create a diverse talent pipeline to support the economy. More than 40 employers have committed to hiring 3,000 STEPs4GROWTH trainees over four years and an additional 1,500 trainees every year thereafter.