{"id":26695,"date":"2025-04-25T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26695"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:25:40","slug":"indiana-county-conservation-district-receives-apprenticeship-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26695","title":{"rendered":"Indiana County Conservation District Receives Apprenticeship Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26696\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IndianaCDlogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"69\" \/>The Pennsylvania Department of Labor &amp; Industry announced a more than $6.6 million investment in 19 Pennsylvania organizations to develop and expand registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs in the agriculture, health care, and information technology (IT) sectors.<\/p>\r\n<p>Through the Supporting Pennsylvania\u2019s Agriculture Sector through Apprenticeships and Pre-Apprenticeship grant initiative, Indiana County Conservation District will receive $399,317.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Indiana County Conservation District will create and establish an agriculture conservation technician apprenticeship program that will provide apprentices with the necessary training and work experience for careers as agriculture conservation employees at Pennsylvania conservation districts, the State Conservation Commission, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and the Penn State Center for Agriculture Conservation and Training.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/dli\/newsroom\/shapiro-administration-invests-more-than--6-6-million-in-health-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire article.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Labor &amp; Industry announced a more than $6.6 million investment in 19 Pennsylvania organizations to develop and expand registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs in the agriculture, health care, and information technology (IT) sectors. Through the Supporting Pennsylvania\u2019s Agriculture Sector through Apprenticeships and Pre-Apprenticeship grant initiative, Indiana County Conservation District will receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}