BCCC Gets $100K State Workforce Development Grant

NEWTOWN, PA — Bucks County Community College will receive a $100,000 pre-apprenticeship grant to support workforce development opportunities and enhance job training.

The grant will allow the local college to expand its existing industrial maintenance pre-apprenticeship training program to high school students and other out-of-school young adults, ages 18-24. The program will span 24 weeks, three hours per day of industrial maintenance instruction.

“This is a great opportunity for our local youth to be directed toward a career that will enable them to provide for themselves and their families,” State Rep. Perry Warren. “With these grants, we are making a significant investment in our students and producing future employees for industries across the commonwealth.”

Warren applauded the program expansion, saying in a statement this is what he and his fellow legislators have been working toward. In 2018, Warren joined the House Democratic Policy Committee’s public hearing on matching workforce development efforts to Pennsylvania jobs.

"We must commit to supporting legislation, funding and apprenticeship programs that help people find good jobs," he said.

Award funds are part of more than $5.3 million in the first PAsmart Apprenticeship and NEXT Generation Industry Partnerships grants for south central and southeast Pennsylvania.