What is CTAP?
The Cooperative Training Assistance Program, or CTAP, was conceived around 1989 by a group of County Engineers in conjunction with the state’s City-County-State-and-Federal Coordinating Committee to pool their training dollars and improve access for their staff to core professional training. Today, California’s 47 RTPAs support CTAP at levels based on population. Their dollars are matched by Caltrans Division of Local Assistance and used to fund a Cooperative Agreement with the University of California to develop and deliver low-cost short-course training targeted for public agencies at locations throughout the state. CTAP provides California’s public agencies with more than 150 days of short course training annually at locations throughout California.
