Federal legislation allows employers to address skill shortages by employing foreign workers under H-1B visas. The legislation also established the U.S. Department of Labor's H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant Program to provide American workers with the skills needed for occupations where skill shortages exist. To date, the Department has awarded over 100 H-1B Technical Skills Training Grants totaling $243.3 million. The Department has contracted with BPA to study the implementation of grantees' H-1B training activities and their efforts to engage employers in the Training Grant Program and in the workforce development system as a whole. BPA will review existing grantee materials, conduct site visits to 15 projects that use interesting strategies to involve employers, and survey the grantees' employer partners about their preferences for worker training. The results of this research will be packaged into tools and materials to help the workforce development system implement demand-driven skills training programs.