Career Launch Funding

For endorsed or not-yet endorsed programs 

Offered through the Employment Security Department, this funding can be used to develop new Career Launch programs or to prepare an existing program to become endorsed as a Career Launch program. Colleges, business and labor partners, industry leads, and K-12 partners can all apply for this funding.

For Career Launch funding to support university  programs see the Washington Student Achievement Council website.

For endorsed programs at community and technical colleges 

Offered through the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC), this funding opportunity is intended to provide for new or expanded enrollments within eligible Career Launch endorsed programs in the Washington Community and Technical College System. Eligible Career Launch endorsed programs are credit bearing programs that have received a Career Launch endorsement from the Career Connected Learning Cross-Agency Work Group’s Career Launch Endorsement Review Team. More information about the endorsement process can be found on the Career Launch Endorsement Review (CLER) page.

Resources made available through this allocation program will support the implementation of new and expanded Career Launch endorsed programs by providing Full-Time Equivalent Student (FTES) funding to successful applicants. This allocation program will provide for building capacity for career connected workforce training in high demand occupations where unmet employer demand exists for programs that integrate the principles of work-based learning. Capacity building will be accomplished, in part, by ensuring that students have access to training, simulations, and equipment that advance high quality workforce programs, integrate supervised paid work-based learning experiences, align classroom learning with both academic and employer standards, and lead to a valuable credential(s) beyond the high school diploma or confer at least forty-five college credits towards a two-year or four-year postsecondary credential.

For endorsed programs at community and technical colleges

Offered through the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, this funding opportunity is intended to provide for the purchase and installation of capital equipment that supports student learning within eligible Career Launch endorsed programs in the Washington Community and Technical College System.