NEWS

10 Sep 2024
‘An entire life of pensions and six-figure incomes’: Officials tout $8 million grant for apprenticeship programs
04 Sep 2024
Locals pair up to pass on Suquamish traditions
31 Aug 2024
This Immersive Farm Apprenticeship is Training the Next Generation of Farmers
30 Aug 2024
NCDOT Launches New Apprenticeship Program

UPCOMING EVENTS

PAST EVENTS

Aug 30

Office Hours - Becoming a Workforce Development Board or Educational Entity Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor

Becoming a Workforce Development Board or Educational Entity Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor - Office Hours

This webinar provided technical assistance for workforce development boards and education entities regarding becoming a Registered Apprenticeship sponsor. This was the second part of the sponsorship series following the July webinar, Technical Tips for Becoming a Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor, and featured additional speakers who were eager to answer questions on being a workforce development board or education registered apprenticeship sponsor.

Participants learned how education providers and workforce development boards can help a business start a registered apprenticeship by becoming the sponsor. Current sponsors in the education and workforce fields shared their expertise in becoming a sponsor. Participants also received a guide and questionnaire for convening partners and a checklist to help gather the right information while engaging with an apprenticeship training representative.

Office Hours - Becoming a Workforce Development Board or Educational Entity Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor
Aug 25

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. 

Rural America's Registered Apprenticeship Promising Practices
Jun 27

Technical Tips for Convening Stakeholders for Registered Apprenticeship

Technical Tips for Convening Stakeholders for Registered Apprenticeship

This webinar provided technical assistance for Business Services Representatives, Workforce Board staff, and workforce system stakeholders to build an understanding of how to start the process of convening stakeholders to build Registered Apprenticeship programs. Technical tools and tips were provided to make convening stakeholders easy in order to increase the capacity of the workforce system to build and expand RA programs.

Link to Webinar

Center of Excellence: Technical Tips for Convening Stakeholders for Registered Apprenticeship
May 31

San Diego, CA San Diego California 92101

California Workforce Association's Annual WorkCon 2023

CWA WorkCon 2023 Building Effective Registered Apprenticeship (RA) Partnerships and Closing RA Knowledge Gaps

The Center presented two sessions on building effective RA partnerships and closing RA knowledge gaps to more effectively create workforce/industry partnerships that provide RA opportunities for well-paying, equitable, and accessible careers for all Californians at CWA's WORKCON 2023. The conference highlighted innovative and strategic collaborations, partnerships, programs, ideas, and principals across the state's Workforce Development Boards, Community Based Organizations, Educational entities, WIOA partners, and all those invested in the success of their local communities and the people who live in them. WORKCON is CWA’s Spring workforce practitioners conference, however, anyone interested in helping people obtain sustainable employment benefit from this conference.

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California Workforce Association's Annual WorkCon 2023