This Center of Excellence webinar, Gauging Registered Apprenticeship Alignment for Workforce Boards, focused on how Workforce Boards can take steps to align and level up their Registered Apprenticeship activities. The Center created a draft tool designed primarily to provide local workforce boards with a gauge of potential “levels” of workforce and apprenticeship system alignment. This special session walked through the individual levels with a focus on how local boards have taken next steps to further incorporate Registered Apprenticeship as a workforce solution for local jobseekers and employers.

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Is your workforce board considering how to get started in adopting Registered Apprenticeship (RA) or supporting RA programs in your area? Have you taken a few first steps but wondering what a higher level of workforce/RA system alignment could look like? The Center created a draft tool designed to help boards visualize "levels" of RA alignment and self-assess their current alignment status. This special interactive session shared the draft tool and walks through the proposed "levels" of alignment, including indicators and next steps.

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This webinar provided assistance for leaders in state apprenticeship efforts to hear promising practices on expanding apprenticeship found in the Center’s review of 2020 state plans. Part Three focused on two key indicators: apprenticeship-specific strategies to meet state objectives and the establishment of apprenticeship-specific metrics to meet workforce needs. 

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Part Two of the Demonstrated State Apprenticeship Leadership in 2020 Unified/Combined Plans webinar series: Co-locating Registered Apprenticeship Expertise in American Job Centers (AJCs), provided assistance for leaders in state apprenticeship efforts to hear promising practices on expanding apprenticeship found in the Center’s review of 2020 state plans.

Part Two focused on the establishment of the apprenticeship expertise in the AJCs. States that made this investment recognized that having apprenticeship expertise available to both businesses and job seekers directly through their services made a stronger investment toward including apprenticeship as a strategy that was relevant to their skill pipeline efforts.

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This Center of Excellence webinar provided 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, participants heard 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.

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The Center of Excellence showed promising practices for rural areas to sponsor Registered Apprenticeship. Participants heard 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.

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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.

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Mapping IET to Pre-Apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship Programs This presentation at COABE's Annual Conference in May 2023 provides Adult Education (AE) leaders and instructors with background on Apprenticeship, findings from the Center's nationwide assessment of adult educators' knowledge of apprenticeship, and tools to help map Integrated Education and Training (IET) programming to pre-apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship programs, helping create accelerated pathways for adult learners into high-quality career pathways.

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This webinar provided assistance for workforce development boards regarding becoming a Registered Apprenticeship (RA) sponsor.

Safal Partners and FASTPORT subject matter experts spoke about how workforce development boards can help a business start a Registered Apprenticeship and become a sponsor. Additionally, current sponsors from workforce development shared their expertise in becoming a sponsor.

Participants heard how organizations made the decision to become an RA sponsor, best practices for engaging all stakeholders in the process, and the pros and cons of becoming an RA sponsor.

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The Center of Excellence provided insight and opportunities to strengthen participants' knowledge of Registered Apprenticeship. This webinar accelerated the impact of state and local boards to help employers and job seekers by providing information about system alignment & partnership and co-enrollment & WIOA.

Speakers included Katie Adams, Chief Delivery Officer at Safal Partners, and Melissa Aguilar-Southard, Director and Subject Matter Expert at Safal Partners

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