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

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

Hear 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 will share their expertise in becoming a sponsor. Participants will also receive a guide and questionnaire for convening partners and a checklist to help you gather the right information as you engage with an apprenticeship training representative.

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Rural America's Registered Apprenticeship Promising Practices

The Center of Excellence will show promising practices for rural areas to sponsor registered apprenticeship. Participants will hear 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 will speak 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 will speak about their experience with program development, challenges faced and gathering stakeholders support for registered apprenticeship in their areas. Participants will also receive 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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Center of Excellence: Technical Tips for Convening Stakeholders for Registered Apprenticeship

This webinar will provide 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 will be provided to make convening stakeholders easy in order to increase the capacity of the workforce system to build and expand RA programs.

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California Workforce Association's Annual WorkCon 2023

Join the Center as we present 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 highlights 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 will benefit from this conference.