Program SFY26 Grantees
Alaska Workforce Investment Board (AWIB)
State Training and Employment Program (STEP)
Program SFY25 Grantees
The list of organizations below represents the AWIB's designated awarded statewide network of STEP program service providers.
1. Alaska CHARR Educational Fund
The Alaska CHARR Educational Fund provides online learning modules through the Restaurant Processionals Online Learning Suite. Participants are trained in safety/regulation, production, operations, leadership, and communication.
2. Alaska Forum Inc.
The Alaska Forum provides industry and nationally-recognized training to support a skilled workforce that meets the needs of employers in natural resource development and related trades.
3. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) is a non-profit organization that provides health services to Alaska Native and American Indian people. Its programs include medical care, wellness services, provider training, and rural sanitation projects. ANTHC also offers training for current and prospective Surgical Services staff to become Sterile Processing Technicians or Surgical Technologists.
4. Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association
The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association provides Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) in nursing homes and hospitals across Alaska. This helps to increase the quality and accessibility of in-state training for Alaska Residents to help meet the workforce needs of employers in the state.
5. Alaska Joint Electrical Apprenticeship & Training Trust
The Alaska Joint Electrical Apprenticeship & Training Trust provides wireman, lineman, and telecommunication apprenticeship training.
6. Alaska Laborers' Construction Industry Training Fund
The Alaska Laborers’ Construction Industry Training Fund provides training for construction craft laborers, including health & safety, regulatory certifications, and specific industry skills development.
7. Alaska Operating Engineers-Employers Training Trust Fund and Subsidiary
The Alaska Operating Engineers-Employers Training Trust Fund and Subsidiary provide training for apprentices in earthmoving, dozer, excavator, roller, paver, grade checking, Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), crane operator, rigging/signalperson, service truck, remote control construction equipment operations, drones in construction, welding, electrical, and engine rebuild.
8. Alaska SC-SE Sheet Metal Workers Union Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee
Alaska SC-SE Sheet Metal Workers Union Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee provides training in fabrication, installation, and maintenance of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning duct systems, restaurant equipment, and customized equipment, and repair and maintenance of ventilation, heating, refrigeration, and cooling systems.
9. Alaska Trowel Trades Apprenticeship & Training Trust
The Alaska Trowel Trades Apprenticeship & Training Trust provides training in plasterers/fireproofing & cement masons for the industry construction field to meet all Industry and safety standard requirements and offers classes for journeymen upgrades of any new requirements and expiring cards, which results in obtaining and maintaining employment.
10. Alaska Works Partnership
The Alaska Works Partnerships program provides construction skills training and career guidance to women in carpentry, electrical pre-apprenticeship, heavy equipment operating, welding, or ironworking. The program is designed to provide opportunities for women who lost employment in tourism/hospitality due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
11. Anchorage Vineyard Family Resource Center
Anchorage Vineyard Family Resource Center provides Child Development Associate (CDA) training for Headstart teachers.
12. ASRC Energy Services
Contact: George Murray
gmurray@asrcenergy.com
907-444-3056
ASRC Energy is enhancing Alaskan workforce development through a comprehensive program that includes training over 70 employees in various trades, utilizing STEP Grant funding to provide enhanced training and ensuring readiness for full-time employment, supported by a dedicated team of instructors, mentors, and coaches to elevate career growth opportunities.
13. Associated Builders and Contractors of Alaska
The Associated Builders and Contractors of Alaska provides NCCER training in all trades and safety training.
14. Bristol Bay Native Corporation
Bristol Bay Native Corporation provides CDL training for Bristol Bay residents.
15. Fairbanks Area Sheet Metal Workers JATC
The Fairbanks Area Sheet Metal Workers JATC provides training for sheet metal workers in advanced welding technologies, auto-CAD duct design, energy efficiency, and oil and hydronic.
16. Foundation Health Partners
Offering medical training to employees to advance careers in nursing and imaging technologies.
17. HD Medical and Fire Services
Providing Department of Labor-approved EMS training programs, from ETT to AEMT certifications, tailored for remote communities and industrial sites, ensuring students gain essential skills for high-demand roles.
18. Kawerak
Kawerak is the regional Tribal nonprofit serving the Bering Strait Region, where the majority of residents are Alaska Native Inupiat, Yup’ik, and St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Its goal is to help Alaska Native people shape their future through programs in education, transportation, economic development, and more. The Kawerak Region Multipurpose Training Initiative will offer certifications in solar power installation, wilderness first aid, and QuickBooks basics to strengthen the local workforce and support employee retention and advancement.
19. Kenai Peninsula Driving Instruction
Kenai Peninsula Driving Instruction aims to expand the CDL workforce in Alaska to meet the growing transportation needs of employers, companies, retailers and more.
20. Knik Tribe
Knik Tribe is a federally recognized tribe serving over 14,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people in the Mat-Su Valley, with a growing range of programs supporting youth, families, and workforce development. In recent years, the Tribe has expanded to 74 employees and launched a STEM Academy, a child care learning center, and the K-12 Knik Charter School, which now serves 225 students. Through the STEP program, Knik Tribe aims to provide job readiness training and wraparound services to unemployed or underemployed individuals, helping them enter high-demand fields and fill critical workforce gaps across the Cook Inlet region.
21. Lake & Peninsula School District / Bristol Bay Region Career and Technical Education Consortium
The main goal of the Bristol Bay Region Career and Technical Education Consortium (BBRCTE) Training & Apprenticeship Program utilizing STEP grant funding is to expand and enhance training opportunities for Alaska residents to attain careers as Alaska Certified Teachers, and union Ironworkers.
22. Northern Industrial Training LLC
Northern Industrial Training provides training for administrative assistants, pro truck driving, welding, advanced carpentry, industrial and construction Laborers, heavy-duty mechanics, long combination vehicle, and CDL.
23. Municipality of Anchorage / Anchorage Fire Department
Contact: Assistant Chief William Kay
william.j.kays@anchorageak.gov
(907) 267-4993
Providing advanced training for Fire Department personnel, in emergency techniques and technical innovations.
24. Pacific Northwest Ironworkers
The Pacific Northwest Ironworkers provides training for structural steel erection, placement of reinforcing steel, post-tensioning reinforcement, ornamental ironworking, metal sheeting installation, and American Welding Society (A.W.S.) welding certifications.
25. Painters Apprenticeship And Training Trust Fund
The Painters Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund provide training for drywall finishing, industrial and commercial painting, and glazing (glass) trades, including forklift and man, lift training, scaffold building and awareness, confined space entry, and lead awareness.
26. Plumbers & Pipefitters UA Local 262 JATC
The Plumbers & Pipefitters UA Local 262 JATC provides apprenticeship training for welding, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration, and foreman
27. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 375 Apprenticeship & Journeymen Training
Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 375 Apprenticeship & Journeymen Training provides certification in backflow, industrial rigging, signalperson, foreman/supervisor, medical gas, STAR plumbing mastery, refrigeration & CFC, and job safety & health.
28. Providence Health & Services Washington
Providence has been serving Alaska since 1902, when the Sisters of Providence brought health care to Nome during the Gold Rush. Now the state’s largest private employer, Providence operates in six communities and employs over 4,000 people statewide. Its Nurse Aide Training Program offers academic and hands-on training to prepare individuals for careers as Certified Nurse Aides within the organization.
29. RurAL CAP
Founded in 1965, RurAL CAP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving life for low-income Alaskans through statewide programs that address poverty, and has recently utilized STEP funding to enhance local early learning and housing professionals' skills and certifications, thereby improving employment opportunities and professional development.
30. Rural Alaska Fuel Services
Rural Alaska Fuel Services (RAFS) is a nonprofit organization that supports the safe and sustainable operation of bulk fuel storage facilities in rural Alaska. RAFS focuses on maintenance, safety, and environmental compliance, working closely with local operators. With STEP funding, RAFS plans to lower the cost of its 40-hour HAZWOPER training, making it more accessible to rural communities by bringing certified instruction directly to them and helping residents meet critical state and federal safety requirements.
31. Southeast Alaska Association for the Education of Young Children
The Southeast Alaska Association for the Education of Young Children (AEYC), soon to be known as the Southeast Childhood Collective, has supported early educators, families, and communities since 1982. As the region’s Child Care Resource and Referral hub, AEYC offers programs that promote the healthy development of young children. Through hands-on learning and academic training, their apprenticeship programs help caregivers gain essential skills, supporting both workforce retention and high-quality child care.
32. Southeast Regional Resource Center Inc.
The Southeast Regional Resource Center Inc. provides industry-specific training through various educational and training institutions in health care and the trades to help participants obtain or maintain employment by earning state, national, or industry-recognized certifications and occupational endorsements. The training is as follows: National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) Certification, OSHA 10 certification, welding, certified nursing assistant (CNA) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and behavioral health.
33. Southeast Trucking and Training
Southeast Trucking and Training is a CDL school serving Southeast Alaska, offering certified, one-on-one training for Class A and B licenses, endorsements, and testing without requiring travel to Anchorage or Kenai. Its two-week program combines online theory training with hands-on instruction in Juneau, making CDL training more accessible and affordable for students across Alaska. Through $8,000 grants for up to 50 participants, the program helps women, minorities, young adults, and those reentering the workforce gain the skills and credentials needed for careers in trucking, tourism, construction, and other high-demand industries.
34. United Association Local 367 Joint Apprentice Committee
The United Association Local 367 Joint Apprentice Committee heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) training.
35. University of Alaska Fairbanks – MAPTS
The University of Alaska Fairbanks – MAPTS trains Alaskans for jobs in the mining and construction support industries by providing short-term, hard-skills training in a remote camp setting.
36. Vannoy Electric
Vannoy Electric will train local youth ages 18-24 in the construction trades for a successful career as electricians.
37. Zender Environmental Health and Research Group
Zender Environmental Health and Research Group trains rural Alaskan residents as Waste Management and Emergency Spill Responders via an intensive 260-hour in-residence program.
last updated: July 29, 2025
