National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) 2023 Youth Symposium

National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) 2023 Youth Symposium

NAWDP's 2023 Youth Symposium addressed critical issues for youth in the workforce by sharing innovative solutions and empowering strategies like registered apprenticeship.

The Youth Symposium brought together workforce development thought leaders and stakeholders whose focus is providing workforce development opportunities for the youth population.

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Demonstrated State Apprenticeship Leadership in 2020 Unified/Combined Plans. Part Two: Co-locating Registered Apprenticeship Expertise in American Job Centers

Demonstrated State Apprenticeship Leadership in 2020 Unified-Combined Plans, Part Two: Apprenticeship Expertise in American Job Centers

This Center of Excellence webinar provided technical assistance for leaders in state apprenticeship efforts to hear promising practices on expanding apprenticeship found in the Center’s review of 2020 state plans.

During this three-part webinar series, you hear about four leadership indicators. Part Two focused on the establishment of the apprenticeship expertise in the American Job Centers (AJCs). States that make this investment recognize that having apprenticeship expertise available to both businesses and job seekers directly through their services make a stronger investment toward the inclusion of apprenticeship as a strategy that is relevant to their skill pipeline efforts.

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Demonstrated State Apprenticeship Leadership in 2020 Unified/Combined Plans

Demonstrated State Apprenticeship Leadership in 2020 Unified/Combined Plans, Part 1

This Center of Excellence webinar provided technical assistance for leaders in state apprenticeship efforts to hear promising practices on expanding apprenticeship found in the Center’s review of 2020 state plans.

During this three-part webinar series, you hear about four leadership indicators. Part One focused on the establishment of a collaborative state level work group or a committee to the State Workforce Development Board (SWDB) with a focus on apprenticeship expansion. Establishing these groups or committees to the SWDB may indicate a deliberate effort to establish stronger statewide efforts to increase apprenticeship strategies and opportunities that are collaborative and integrated into business and job seeker services within the workforce system.

This webinar is part of Safal Partners' U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Technical Assistance (RA TA) Center of Excellence on Strategic Partnerships and System Alignment. The Center provides expert technical assistance on quality Registered Apprenticeship programming and increasing Apprenticeship alignment with America's public workforce system and educational systems.

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Rural America's Registered Apprenticeship Promising Practices

Rural America's Registered Apprenticeship Promising Practices

The Center of Excellence showed promising practices for rural areas to sponsor registered apprenticeship. Participants learned steps to take in order to align the workforce system, education entities, and local employers in rural areas when considering related instruction, on-the-job learning, mentorship, employing apprentices, and return on investment when sponsoring a registered apprenticeship.

Subject matter experts from the Urban Institute spoke about how rural workforce development boards at the state and local level can help a business start a registered apprenticeship and become a sponsor. Also, rural health care and agriculture grantees spoke about their experience with program development, challenges faced and gathering stakeholders support for registered apprenticeship in their areas. Participants also received a guide and questionnaire for convening partners and a checklist to help gather the right information to engage an apprenticeship training representative.

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