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Greg P. VoorheisGreg serves the State of Vermont as Senior Grant Manager for the Vermont Department of Labor. He oversees the State’s regional Workforce Investment Board grants, Next Generation grants( VT’s Act 46),Offender Re-entry grants, school transition grants, a Governor’s IT Training Initiative grant, and other grants. Previously Greg co-authored and then managed two H-1B grants that provided training in health care and information technology. The second H-1B grant trained over 3000 people and generated aver $4 million in non-federal match.
Holding his Masters Degree in Education, Greg has taught at the college level in Canada and the high school and junior high school levels in the United States. He previously was the Assistant to the Academic Vice-President at the University of Vermont and, prior to that, worked in private business in the Washington, D.C. area.
He has given workshops and presentations on many topics including grant writing, health care and IT training, labor market information, risk management, School-to-Work sustainability in rural areas, partnership development, and resource mapping. He has also facilitated several states’ and territory’s planning efforts including the U.S. Virgin Islands. Recently Greg was asked to serve on the Workforce Cabinet of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging which is studying the need for direct care workers. Greg also helped plan the U.S. Secretary of Education’s Improving America’s Schools Conference for two years focusing on Secondary Education Renewal.
His publications include articles on dual enrollments, mountaintop telecommunications co-location, planning and risk management. He assisted in writing the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial Report on Teacher Education and helped write “High Schools On the Move,” a how-to guide on Vermont’s high school renewal process.
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