Program SFY25 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 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.
4. Alaska Joint Electrical Apprenticeship & Training Trust
The Alaska Joint Electrical Apprenticeship & Training Trust provides wireman, lineman, and telecommunication apprenticeship training.
5. 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.
6. Alaska Operating Engineers-Employers Training Trust Fund and Subsidiary
The Alaska Operating Engineers-Employers Training Trust Fund and Subsidiary provide training for apprentices in earth moving, 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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 theCOVID-19 pandemic.
10. Anchorage Vineyard Family Resource Center
Anchorage Vineyard Family Resource Center provides Child Development Associate (CDA) training for Headstart teachers.
11. 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.
12. Associated Builders and Contractors of Alaska
The Associated Builders and Contractors of Alaska provides NCCER training in all trades and safety training.
13. Bristol Bay Native Corporation
Bristol Bay Native Corporation provides CDL training for Bristol Bay residents.
14. 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.
15. F & E Aircraft Maintenance
FEAM initiated an apprenticeship program with UA-Anchorage to address the global challenge of recruiting and retaining Airframe & Powerplant (A & P) technicians, particularly difficult at their ANC station due to geography and climate, offering paid on-the-job experience adapted to students' schedules to complement their education and facilitate their transition to becoming A & P technicians.
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. 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.
19. 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
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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
25. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 375 Apprenticeship & Journeymen Training
Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 375 Apprenticeship & Journeymen Training provides certification in backflow, industrial rigging, signal person, foreman/supervisor, medical gas, STAR plumbing mastery, refrigeration & CFC, and job safety & health.
26. 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.
27. Southeast Regional Resource Center Inc.
The Southeast Regional Resource Center Inc. provides industry-specific training in healthcare 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.
28. United Association Local 367 Joint Apprentice Committee
The United Association Local 367 Joint Apprentice Committee heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) training.
29. 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.
30. Vannoy Electric
Vannoy Electric will train local youth ages 18-24 in the construction trades for a successful career as electricians.
31. 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-hourin-residence program.
