WAI Project Operators

WDA 1

DWD awarded $610,061 in grant funding to serve 60 participants

Providing Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) boot camps in two cohorts through Gateway Technical College and Commercial Driver's License (CDL) classes with Milwaukee CDL. Individuals at the Ellsworth Correction Center will have the opportunity to participate in the CDL class.

WDA 2

DWD awarded $1,999,791 in grant funding to serve 400 participants

Launching BankWork$, an eight-week retail banking career training class targeting youth and adults from low income and minority communities through partnerships with government agencies, community- and faith-based organizations. Training will include workplace professionalism, forging customer relationships, financial services fundamentals, and preparing for employment. Employ Milwaukee is partnering with Teens Grow Greens to provide teens with hands on experience and skills building. This program will help youth build local connections and have project-based learning in horticulture, cooking, and environmental justice.

WDA 3

DWD awarded $1,114,480 in grant funding to serve 115 participants

Presenting workforce training that blends classroom instruction with work-based learning. Training will rapidly train and upskill participants, addressing the needs of key growth sectors such as advanced manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, childcare, professional/business management, and transportation logistics/warehousing.

WDA 4

DWD awarded $1,164,625 in grant funding to serve 75 participants

Delivering hands-on training in CDL and welding to fill skilled trades gaps through local counties and in partnership with Moraine Park Technical College. An onsite mobile welding lab will be offered for incarcerated women at Taycheedah Corrections Institution. Training will also include separate IT and project management courses with an introduction to Artificial Intelligent course through various University of Wisconsin campuses.

WDA 5

DWD awarded $900,000 in grant funding to serve 100 participants

Providing skills accelerators training through a partnership with gener8tor focusing on industries such as supply chain and logistics, and finance. Training will be delivered by a hybrid approach and will use case project development to enable participants to apply AI solutions to industry challenges.

WDA 6

DWD awarded $1,065,075 in grant funding to serve 80 participants

Presenting short-term training opportunities in healthcare, childcare, tourism-related occupations, welding, home energy audit and solar installation, CDL, and construction trades. Courses will be offered in conjunction with local technical colleges and trainers with a focus on engaging unemployed and underemployed workers in addition to people re-entering the workforce following incarceration.

WDA 7

DWD awarded $690,640 in grant funding to serve 70 participants

Delivering comprehensive training in fields including CDL and heavy equipment operation in partnership with Midwest Truck Driving Schools. Participants will earn the OSHA 40 certification, a training for workplace safety and regulatory compliance. In addition, this grant offers training through climate solutions company Slipstream in the building science principles industry, certify participants for energy auditing or energy contractor work. Eligible candidates will be identified through local community-based organizations, tribes, and local businesses.

WDA 8

DWD awarded $719,327 in grant funding to serve 150 participants

Providing new worker training through Certified Pre-Apprenticeship programs in welding (Beginner and Advanced courses) and childcare with Northwood Technical College. Training will focus on jobs that leading to economic self-sufficiency and sustainable wages.

WDA 9

WDB 9 is not currently operating programming under the WAI grant. If you're interested in being served by this grant, please contact one of the other WDAs in the state. Other workforce programming is available in this region via the American Job Center.

WDA 10

DWD awarded $1,343,100 in grant funding to serve 225 participants

Providing new worker training through Certified Pre-Apprenticeship programs in welding (Beginner and Advanced courses) and childcare with Northwood Technical College. Training will focus on jobs that leading to economic self-sufficiency and sustainable wages.

WDA 11

DWD awarded $685,422 in grant funding to serve 143 participants

Offering training projects in Accelerated Industrial Maintenance (AIM), the Fire Academy, CNA training, and welding. Training will be provided to three cohorts in the AIM summer program; one cohort in the Fire Academy; three cohorts in CNA trainees to prepare for the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program exam and state accreditation; one cohort of welding trainees in the Prairie Du Chien Correctional Institution; and one cohort of welding trainees at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College.