Workforce Development boosts health care efforts
Iowa Workforce Development has awarded grants to Broadlawns Medical Center, Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa College of Nursing to support registered apprenticeship programs in health care. Broadlawns and Kirkwood will receive $37,500 to expand their programs and UI will get and $150,000 to start a program. Iowa Workforce Development recently received an additional $1 million ApprenticeshipUSA State Expansion Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to expand the apprenticeship programs around the state.