Worker Retraining
Program Overview
Are you unemployed? The Worker Retraining program can help you with resources to train for a new job or career. The Worker Retraining program provides funding for eligible dislocated and unemployed workers in training or retraining that will assist them in regaining employment. Before continuing, please verify that the program you are interested or enrolled in is listed below in the "Qualifying Programs" section.
If you are in a qualifying program and want to see if you are eligible for Worker Retraining at Wenatchee Valley College, please fill out our Interest Survey and one of our staff members will contact you.
You could be eligible for Worker Retraining support for any of the following reasons:
- Receiving—or eligible to receive—unemployment benefits
- Have exhausted unemployment benefits within the past four years
- Formerly self-employed and currently unemployed due to general economic conditions
- Unemployed veteran discharged within the past four years
- Unemployed or underemployed after having been dependent on another family member’s income, but no longer supported by that income due to separation, divorce, death, or permanent disability of the main wage-earner.
- A vulnerable worker (at risk of being unemployed) who meets two of the following three
requirements:
- Your job is not in demand. (See the Local Area Demand/Decline Occupations list.)
- You do not have 45 college credits.
- You must upgrade your skills to remain employed in your current job.
Associate Degrees:
- Accounting
- Agriculture
- Automotive Technology
- Business, General
- Business Computer Technology
- Chemical Dependency Studies
- Computer Technology - Network Administration
- Criminal Justice
- Early Childhood Education
- Environmental Systems and Refrigeration Technology
- Engineering Technology
- Fire Science
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Technology - Aerospace Electronics
- Industrial Technology - Electronics
- Industrial Technology - Machining
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Natural Resources
- Nursing (RN)
- Pharmacy Technician
- Radiologic Technology
Certificates or trainings without corresponding degrees:
- Medical Assistant
- Digital Design
- Welding and Fabrication
- Flagger Certification
- Forklift Certification
- Emergency Medical Technician
- CNA Fast-Track
4-Year Degrees:
- Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technology
- Bachelor of Applied Science in Teaching
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
If you have questions or would like to speak to a Student Grants Center staff member,
please reach out to a staff member listed below or email our department at StudentGrantsCenter@wvc.edu.
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