CareerSource Florida President and CEO Chris Hart IV's presentation to the Florida Senate Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee.

1. Florida’s Quick Response Training Grant Program
Senate Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development
Appropriations Subcommittee
President/CEO Chris Hart IV
March 4, 2015

2. Florida’s Quick Response Training (QRT)
• Demand-driven, flexible program provides performance-based
grants for customized training to new or expanding businesses
(10+ employees)
• Helps create high-skill, high-wage jobs in state industries
targeted for economic growth and diversification
• Reimbursable expenses include curriculum development;
equipment; instructors’/trainers’ salaries/tuition; online training
and textbooks/manuals
• QRT trainees’ wages increase 35 percent, on average, a year
after training

3. Quick Response Training Awards
FY 2013-14 Contracts: 42 (99 businesses)
• Awards: $12 million under contract
• Projected Trainees: 10,066
Workers Trained by Industry Sector

4. Quick Response Training
Project Examples
Grant: $176,000
Industry Sector: Finance and Insurance
Company Location: Duval
Projected Trainees: 125 new employees
Grant: $486,000
Industry Sector: Information Technology
Company Location: Pinellas
Projected Trainees: 800 employees (100
newly hired and 700 retained)
Grant: $1.6 million
Industry Sector: Professional, Scientific
and Technical Services
Company Location: Seminole
Projected Trainees: 750 new employees