Individual Training Accounts

Prospective WIA Title I training vendors must apply for course eligibility approval status for their programs electronically utilizing TrainingPro, a web-based, multi-program vendor eligibility software application.  It has been specifically designed to enable prospective vendors to simultaneously apply for coursed approval status for any combination of the following training related programs:

• Initial Eligibility to Provide Training Services to WIA Participants Using Individual Training Accounts (ITAs),
• Skill Start Program
• Training Opportunities Program (Section 30), and
• Workforce Training Fund Express

Training vendors can access TrainingPro at http://web.detma.org/provider/prl.asp. Any questions you have regarding entering information into TrainingPro can be addressed to Mark Shore at 617-626-5335 or mshore@detma.org.

ITA vendors must be licensed or accredited by an organization such as the MA Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE), MA Board of Higher Education, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) or other recognized accrediting agencies.

The Merrimack Valley Workforce Investment Board requires performance information to be entered. Local performance standards require 80% completion rate for the course, 70% entered employment rate and $10.00 minimum hourly rate for placement. If you do not have performance information at this point and have not run a similar program in the past, you can justify that by stating that the course is new in Training Pro, but you will then need to start tracking performance information. After courses have been entered in TrainingPro, please inform Corina Ruiz, Administrative Services Coordinator. Mrs. Ruiz can be reached at either 978-682-7099 or CRuiz@mvwib.org. She will then review your information. If your courses are approved she will pass along the information to the ValleyWorks Career Center so they are aware of the new training courses and can begin to refer appropriate candidates.