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Funding Opportunities

Notice of Funding Opportunity: Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery Dislocated Worker Grants
Critical Sector Job Quality Grants
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 5: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions
Funding Opportunity: FY23 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Pathways for Youth
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)

Making Connections 2022

Making Connections 2022 – Designing Safety: Bus of the Future and Beyond
Making Connections 2022 – Online Training and Learning Technologies
Making Connections 2022 – Transit Instructional Systems Design Boot Camp
Making Connections 2022 – Moving Forward Together: Creating and Sustaining Successful Labor-Management Partnerships
Making Connections 2022 – Mentoring: A Great Route to Frontline Workforce Development
Making Connections 2022 – Out of the Box Strategies: Using Partnerships to Strengthen Recruitment, Retention and the Advancement of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access
Making Connections 2022 – Driving Bus Operator Recruitment and Retention: Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation
Making Connections 2022 – Designing an Impactful Training Program: Linking Program Design to Classroom Learning and On-The-Job Training for Transit Frontline Workers
Making Connections 2022 – Meeting Industry Needs: Feedback Session on FTA’s Draft Strategic Workforce Development Plan
Making Connections 2022 – Considerations on the Future of Human-Automation Teaming in the Transit Workforce

Apprenticeship

Fact Sheet: Veterans in Registered Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship Training Courses
Apprenticeship Building America: Mentoring Guide
ATTAIN Bus Operator Apprenticeship Meeting
Apprenticeship Start-up Summary
Funding Opportunity: FY23 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
ATTAIN Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Meeting
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Pathways for Youth
Signal and Track Switch Repairers – occupation information on apprenticeship.gov
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

Career Pathways

Notice of Funding Opportunity: Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery Dislocated Worker Grants
Workforce Mini-Guides
Lunch & Learn: Youth Careers in Transit – Exploring a World of Opportunity
ATTAIN Bus Operator Apprenticeship Meeting
Apprenticeship Start-up Summary
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 5: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions
Funding Opportunity: FY23 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
ATTAIN Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Meeting
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Pathways for Youth
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Notice of Funding Opportunity: Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery Dislocated Worker Grants
Workforce Mini-Guides
Fact Sheet: Veterans in Registered Apprenticeship
Improving Diversity and Inclusion Programs in Public Transportation
Building a Business Case for Increasing Diversity in the Transportation Workforce
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 5: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions
Funding Opportunity: FY23 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Technical Assistance Grant Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Pathways for Youth
TWC’s Transit Workforce Data Dashboard
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

General Workforce Development

Critical Sector Job Quality Grants
A Guide to Starting or Joining a Registered Apprenticeship Program
Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Making Connections 2022 – Meeting Industry Needs: Feedback Session on FTA’s Draft Strategic Workforce Development Plan
Employers can support workers’ economic mobility and their own bottom lines
Building Pathways to Infrastructure Careers: Framework for Preparing an Infrastructure Workforce
The Road to Zero Emission Buses — National Coordinated Effort to Prepare Frontline Technicians
Training and Apprenticeships to Address Transit Workforce Gaps
TCRP Report 103: Public Transportation Operating Agencies as Employers of Choice
TCRP Research Results Digest 88: Innovative Practices in Transit Workforce Development

Hiring and Recruitment

Workforce Mini-Guides
TWC’s Transit Workforce Data Dashboard
Transit Workforce Shortage: Synthesis Report and Toolkit
Transit Workforce Shortage: Root Causes, Potential Solutions, and the Road Ahead
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)
Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
Making Connections 2022 – Driving Bus Operator Recruitment and Retention: Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation
Making Connections 2022 – Meeting Industry Needs: Feedback Session on FTA’s Draft Strategic Workforce Development Plan

Labor-Management Partnerships

Critical Sector Job Quality Grants
Apprenticeship Start-up Summary
Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Making Connections 2022 – Moving Forward Together: Creating and Sustaining Successful Labor-Management Partnerships
Making Connections 2022 – Out of the Box Strategies: Using Partnerships to Strengthen Recruitment, Retention and the Advancement of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
Making Connections 2022 – Growing Your Own Through Apprenticeship: A Joint Approach to Building Skills
National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Campaign
Building Pathways to Infrastructure Careers: Framework for Preparing an Infrastructure Workforce
The Power of Partnership: Automotive Technology/Collision Career Technical Education Program

Procurement

Building Pathways to Infrastructure Careers: Framework for Preparing an Infrastructure Workforce
The Road to Zero Emission Buses — National Coordinated Effort to Prepare Frontline Technicians
TCRP Synthesis 107: Rail Transit Track Inspection Practices
Bus Maintenance and Bus Testing Program Peer-to-Peer Exchange (Report 0160)
Mountain Line Zero-Emission Bus Implementation Plan
Electrifying Transit: A Guidebook for Implementing Battery Electric Buses
Providing Training for Zero Emission Buses: Recommended Expanded RFP Language
Zero Emission Transit Bus Technology Analysis Volume 2

Program Evaluation and ROI

Tool for Measuring the Cost of Turnover
TWC’s Transit Workforce Data Dashboard
Making Connections 2022 – Meeting Industry Needs: Feedback Session on FTA’s Draft Strategic Workforce Development Plan
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
Expanding Apprenticeship: Return on Investment (ROI)
Apprenticeship is a Win-Win for Workers and Employers
Metrics of Success Series
Quality Training Pays: Training Investment Pays for Itself Six Times Over
Building Capacity for Transit Training: International and Domestic Comparisons
Rail Vehicles Maintenance Training Standards

Retention

Workforce Mini-Guides
Tool for Measuring the Cost of Turnover
Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
Making Connections 2022 – Designing an Impactful Training Program: Linking Program Design to Classroom Learning and On-The-Job Training for Transit Frontline Workers
Making Connections 2022 – Meeting Industry Needs: Feedback Session on FTA’s Draft Strategic Workforce Development Plan
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Campaign
Employers can support workers’ economic mobility and their own bottom lines
Recruiting and Retaining the Best: Transit Workforce Best Practices

Safety and Health

Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Electric Vehicle Maintenance Best Practices
Making Connections 2022 – Designing Safety: Bus of the Future and Beyond
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
Making Connections 2022 – Drive to Revive: Preparing Operators for ZEB Deployment
Making Connections 2022 – Engines to Inverters: Preparing Technicians for ZEB Deployment
National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Campaign
Transportation Learning Network (TLN)
Train-the-Trainer Level 2: Creating Courseware that Works
Train-the-Trainer Level 1:  Adult Learning Theory and Teaching Techniques

Trainer and Mentor Development

Workforce Mini-Guides
Apprenticeship Building America: Mentoring Guide
ATTAIN Bus Operator Apprenticeship Meeting
ATTAIN Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Meeting
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
Making Connections 2022 – Growing Your Own Through Apprenticeship: A Joint Approach to Building Skills
Making Connections 2022 – Engines to Inverters: Preparing Technicians for ZEB Deployment
National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Campaign
Rail Signals Training Content and Standards
Train-the-Trainer Level 2: Creating Courseware that Works

Training and Development

ATTAIN Bus Operator Apprenticeship Meeting
Apprenticeship Start-up Summary
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 5: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions
ATTAIN Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Meeting
TWC’s Transit Workforce Data Dashboard
A Guide to Starting or Joining a Registered Apprenticeship Program
Bus Operator Workforce Management: Practitioner’s Guide
Electric Vehicle Maintenance Best Practices
Making Connections 2022 – Online Training and Learning Technologies
Making Connections 2022 – Transit Instructional Systems Design Boot Camp

Zero Emission Buses

Critical Sector Job Quality Grants
Electric Vehicle Maintenance Best Practices
Making Connections 2022 – Driving Bus Operator Recruitment and Retention: Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation
Making Connections 2022 – Program Overview
Making Connections 2022 – Drive to Revive: Preparing Operators for ZEB Deployment
Making Connections 2022 – Engines to Inverters: Preparing Technicians for ZEB Deployment
National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Campaign
Building Pathways to Infrastructure Careers: Framework for Preparing an Infrastructure Workforce
Transit Coach Operator Competency-Based Framework
Bus Maintenance and Bus Testing Program Peer-to-Peer Exchange (Report 0160)