Education & Training Resources is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and is well known because of our knowledge, experience, and commitment. We have successfully combined a variety of workforce development projects with our staff’s experience and knowledge, achieving only positive results. Our main goal is to establish strategic partnerships with our young members by effectively reaching and teaching them in pursuit of promising careers. All members that attended our training have established solid relationships, which support them in achieving their goals both in the professional and educational field.
The Education & Training Resources team’s experience in youth services has a strong foundation of unique skills as trainers and educators. Therefore, our company has achieved unmatched insight and support during all of our projects. We continue to experience increased youth participation in our educational and vocational programs, and we expect to have the same success this year.
The award of Education and Training Resources’ first contract in 1991 began an on-going relationship with state and local workforce development programs and systems. In the daily operation of its non-residential training centers, Education and Training Resources has maintained working relationships with a variety of state/local agencies for the outreach, admission, training, placement, and support of enrolled students. Education and Training Resources, in its efforts to provide services to a multitude of hard-to-serve target groups, has maintained coordination and linkages with agencies such as Private Industry Councils/Workforce Investment Boards and Youth Councils, STW Local Partnership Councils, Welfare-to-Work Programs (Formula/Competitive Grant Areas), Local Labor Market Councils, One Stop Career Centers, Empowerment/Enterprise Zones, Youth Opportunity Demonstration Areas, Vocational Rehabilitation Programs, Vocational-Technical Schools, Adult Education and Literacy Programs, School-To-Work Programs, Tech-Prep Programs, Occupational Information Coordinating Councils, and Job Training Coordinating Councils.
In July 1991, Education and Training Resources was awarded its first education and training contract with the Barren River Area Development District, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The contract was designed to provide outreach and recruitment services, GED training, basic education skills training, employability skills training, job placement, and follow-up services to 50 disadvantaged persons located in a high unemployment, rural, multi-county area in South Central Kentucky. In July 1993, Education and Training Resources experienced significant growth in government contract awards and operations. During this program year, Education and Training Resources was awarded seven (7) new contract operations. In July 1994, based on performance, all proposed contracts retained funding or option year extensions and Education and Training Resources was awarded two (2) additional contract operations. In July 1995, Education and Training Resources elected not to bid additional contract operations in order stabilize the administrative and operational systems of the Company. In July 1996, Education and Training Resources retained funding or option year extensions on all proposed contract operations and was awarded one (1) new JTPA contract, one (1) Job Corps subcontract, and one (1) School-to-Work Transition Program contract. In July 1997, Education and Training Resources retained funding or an option year extension on all proposed operations and, again, was awarded two (2) additional JTPA contracts. In July 1998, Education and Training Resources was awarded two (2) additional contracts, one to train displaced garment workers (Fruit of the Loom) and one involving a U.S. Department of Labor Demonstration Project to provide vocational training to disadvantaged youth with less than a high school education. In July 1999, Education and Training Resources transitioned and opened six (6) Welfare-to-Work training centers and was awarded a subcontract with the USDA, Forest Service to operate the Academic, Placement, and School-to-Work components at the Lyndon B. Johnson Civilian Conservation Center, located in Franklin, North Carolina.
In July 2000, Education and Training Resources was selected as the Protégé Training Company in the Mentor-Protégé designated award of the Turner Job Corps Center (Albany, Georgia). For the first two base years of this subcontract award, Education and Training Resources had direct responsibility for managing all student training (academic and vocational) programs (1,030 slots) as well as all direct outreach, admissions and career development services directly assigned to the Turner Job Corps Center. The Turner Job Corps Center currently has a five hundred- (500) slot direct outreach and admissions assignment as part of the center operations contract.
Since the addition of the Turner JCC residential facility in 2000, Education and Training Resources has maintained the operation of the local non-residential programs. During the last four (4) years Education and Training Resources has developed the internal corporate structure to aggressively and effectively support these contract operations and provide for new business development opportunities. Education and Training Resources currently manages and operates: twelve (12) non-residential training facilities, in multiple locations, throughout Kentucky, serving over five hundred (500) rural economically disadvantaged youth and adults this year; one (1) School-to-Work Transition Program in Mississippi, serving approximately sixty (60) youth in conjunction with the Job Corps program; and one (1) residential training facility in Georgia, housing over one thousand thirty students (1030) at once and serving over seventeen hundred (1700) students per year. Education and Training Resources currently employs over 350 staff in full and part-time positions as academic instructors, vocational instructors, counselors, and placement specialists. These contract operations have generated over $22.0 million in federal job training funds that are annually managed by Education and Training Resources; and, Education and Training Resources has never been cited for a disallowed cost or internal control finding in any annual financial or compliance audit.
Education and Training Resources’s current and previous contract operations require the Company to perform a variety of customized education, training, and employment services in concert with the management of multiple contracts / locations for compliance, administration, and performance driven outcomes.