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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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.

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

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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CWA WorkCon 2023 Innovative and Strategic Collaborations in Registered Apprenticeship

CWA WorkCon 2023 Innovative and Strategic Collaborations in Registered Apprenticeship

WORKCON 2023 highlighted innovative and strategic collaborations, partnerships, programs, ideas, and principals which showcased the incredible work of CA’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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