Florida’s Quick Response Training Grant Program
Senate Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee
President/CEO Chris Hart IV
March 4, 2015
Florida’s Quick Response Training (QRT)• Demand-driven, flexible program provides performance-based
grants for customized training to new or expanding businesses (10+ employees)
• Helps create high-skill, high-wage jobs in state industries targeted for economic growth and diversification
• Reimbursable expenses include curriculum development; equipment; instructors’/trainers’ salaries/tuition; online training and textbooks/manuals
• QRT trainees’ wages increase 35 percent, on average, a year after training
Quick Response Training Awards
FY 2013-14 Contracts: 42 (99 businesses)
• Awards: $12 million under contract• Projected Trainees: 10,066
Workers Trained by Industry Sector
Quick Response Training Project Examples
Grant: $176,000Industry Sector: Finance and InsuranceCompany Location: DuvalProjected Trainees: 125 new employees
Grant: $486,000Industry Sector: Information TechnologyCompany Location: PinellasProjected Trainees: 800 employees (100 newly hired and 700 retained)
Grant: $1.6 millionIndustry Sector: Professional, Scientific and Technical ServicesCompany Location: SeminoleProjected Trainees: 750 new employees
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