Oklahoma Works!

•    The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants program (TAACCCT) is one of several new Federal grant programs in which grantor agencies fund projects that seek to use evidence to design program strategies.
•    These initiatives fund the development of innovative programs or replication of evidence-based strategies and award grants to eligible institutions that are committed to using data to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of their strategies in order to improve their programming.
•    The United States Department of Labor is committed to funding programs that are likely to improve education and employment outcomes for program participants while providing grantees the flexibility to identify and integrate effective strategies in their education and training programs and adjust or improve weaker strategies.
•    The United States Department of Labor believes community colleges are an ideal place to apply this new approach, because they have been leaders in seeking out strategies that get results. Community colleges have innovated in many ways, crossing traditional boundaries to collaborate with employers, the public workforce system, Registered Apprenticeship programs, and other service organizations; and have continuously adapted their programs to respond to local economic needs and produce better outcomes for their students.

Participating Institutions