CivicLab plans to select six to eight communities to coach through developing systems that help train lower-income workers for better jobs over the next two years.

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana will partner with Conexsus, an organization that helps Indiana businesses prepare and employ advanced manufacturing and logistics opportunities.

RecycleForce is awarded $4.5 million to reach more young people at risk of being involved in crime.

A program in northern Indiana recently received $500,000 to continue paid career training for high schoolers.

Following a growing national trend, Bloomington-based medical devices company Cook Medical and Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana partnered to select an Indianapolis neighborhood with high economic need to house a new manufacturing facility.

An Indiana nonprofit wants the newest generation of workers to consider careers in advanced manufacturing and logistics.

Participants will have access to coaching via online video calls, phone calls, or texts and can receive help for up to four months.

In an example of how states are casting for ways to spend the federal influx, Indiana's budget negotiators wrote in $75 million for the Career Accelerator Program -- nearly triple the $27 million going to a 2 percent increase for the state's higher education system.

The 11-week program will be held in Indianapolis and will train up to 20 workers in safety and construction methods used to build highways

The students will be placed at 16 companies around Indianapolis -- several of them with the workforce groups who designed the program, including local workforce board EmployIndy.