Training, Workforce
and Education
- State-of-the art industrial training programs through
Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT), including recruitment, customized training
(pre-employment and upgrade), and employee development at all organizational levels and
usually cost free.
- "Right-to-Work" state.
- Labor market area data for all 67 Alabama counties.
- Workforce Productivity Resource Center assistance and
confidential, voluntary OSHA compliance assistance programs.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), counseling programs and
occupational health programs.
- Sixteen state-sponsored universities and thirteen
independent colleges and universities, including:
- Highly respected schools of Engineering, Pharmacy, and
Veterinary Medicine;
- Internationally recognized Optometry, Dental,
Agricultural, and Forestry schools.
- Occupational and technical programs offered through
community and junior college network.
- Magnet school curricula patterned after colleges,
providing intensive study in several academic areas.
- Certified Japanese Saturday schools.
- Advanced schools such as:
- the Alabama School of the Fine Arts, one of only three
state-supported creative arts schools in the nation;
- the Academy for Mathematics & Sciences.
For additional information, please visit www.ado.state.al.us/train.htm.
Source: Alabama Development Office