Customized Job Training Program Goals & Objectives

The CJT grant program provides grants to businesses in an effort to establish job training as a key element in economic development by:

Encouraging business expansion, as well as the retention of existing private companies whose competitive viability can be improved through upgrade training;
Focusing training opportunities in all communities or areas of the Commonwealth, especially those which are economically distressed;
Enabling Pennsylvanians to obtain initial employment and to make the transitions in skills, occupations and places of employment which are increasingly a feature of the state's economy;
Encouraging new business start-ups and relocations to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;
Ensuring that Pennsylvanians develop skills through training which are consistent with current and projected employer demand; and
Fostering linkages between the Commonwealth's educational institutions and private business and industry.