The Connecticut IFS Cluster is a partner in the IFS Center for Educational Excellence, a workforce development initiative to help address both the industry’s short and long term workforce needs. Since 2007, the IFS Center has developed on-demand training that is exclusively “designed by the industry for the industry.” The IFS Center Executive Advisory Committee is comprised of over 20 businesses, academic institutions and state government who meet regularly to:
- Monitor job trends via SkillPROOF Inc.
- Act as a review panel for related curricula
- Survey Human Resource Directors for workforce needs
- Provide data to secondary and post secondary institutions
- Act as a think tank for future workforce issues
The IFS Center partnership was created with the support of a $2.7 million dollar U.S. DOL grant and today still provides a local and national model of excellence in workforce training.