Webcast from AL providing an overview of apprenticeships and benefits to job seekers and employers. Apprentices discuss career paths and state legislation, and resources are shared.

A comprehensive resource for apprenticeship partners, business, and jobseekers.

The Maine State Apprenticeship Expansion Case Study highlights promising practices in growing and scaling the state apprenticeship system. One success factor highlighted in the report is the development of an industry intermediary strategy that directly enlists industry in apprenticeship expansion efforts and supports cross-industry collaborative learning.

This infographic by Safal Partners and the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE) provides a quick, but thorough, overview of the steps required to incorporate pre-apprenticeship in Integrated Education and Training programs.

Rapidly Deploy and Scale Apprenticeship: A Resource to Help Employers Work with an Apprenticeship Intermediary provides concrete steps for helping employers understand what intermediaries can provide and how to work with them.

This brief from the National Skills Coalition provides information about sector strategies and partnerships, including local workforce board partnerships, that can help ramp up work-based learning. 

This video from the National Association for Workforce Boards provides information for workforce development providers about how to partner with apprenticeship. Apprenticeship professionals can learn how our partners on the workforce side understand their role in these partnerships.

Building Partnerships and Collaborations with Workforce and Education Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Form Partnerships with Education and Workforce Programs to Create Trafficking Survivor Economic Security provides comprehensive information about how to identify local workforce programs and strategies for developing partnerships with them.

CompTIA interview with Todd Cronin, CEO & Founder, Ryu Tea, on employer benefits and successes to hiring cybersecurity apprenticeships for growth and expansion.

Abt Webinar recording on findings from evaluation of U.S. DOL's American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI)

Guide and best practices for Youth Apprenticeship development and operations including messaging materials and sample documents.

Tools to start and register an apprenticeship program for system stakeholders.

Webinar featuring employers who are using mid-career Registered Apprenticeship programs to address hard-to-find skill needs and help employees advance in their careers in cybersecurity.

This resource from Washington State provides comprehensive information to help parents and caregivers understand apprenticeship career pathways.

This brief discusses the challenges that grantees that had received American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) funds experienced when trying to transition to using WIOA funds to sustain programs that were created under AAI. The report uses these challenges to promote opportunities for encouraging local workforce development boards to support Registered Apprenticeship Programs with WIOA funds. 

This component of comprehensive Registered Apprenticeship training provided to CareerSource FL Apprenticeship Navigators focuses on business engagement strategies.

This training video by the National Association of Workforce Boards and Jobs for the Future provides information for workforce development professionals about how to understand apprenticeship. It is useful to help apprenticeship professionals understand how workforce development staff conceptualize Registered Apprenticeship Programs.

The Idaho State Apprenticeship Expansion Case Study highlights promising practices in growing and scaling the state apprenticeship system. One success factor highlighted in the report is a streamlined registration process that reflects coordination between US DOL Office of Apprenticeship and Idaho Department of Labor apprenticeship partners (p.12).

The Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board and Adaptive Construction Solutions Inc. case study demonstrates how a group apprenticeship sponsor was able to partner with the local workforce board to leverage Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds to support apprentice training. The case study includes promising practices that apprenticeship professionals can use to work with their own board.

This fact sheet provides a high-level overview of how the workforce system, funded by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), can support Registered Apprenticeship and identifies several key strategies for alignment between the workforce and apprenticeship systems.

Toolkit to develop and sustain employer leads for promoting registered apprenticeship programs.

Toolkit for employers to develop and launch registered apprenticeship programs.

Reference Guide of Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor Requirements for Kentucky.

These modules from Start Today SD provide training for mentors, mentees, sponsors, and future facilitators on how to develop and implement quality mentorship programs.

This resource from Apprenticeship Utah provides an overview of the fundamental principles that support quality mentorship in apprenticeship.

This tool from Safal Partners can help apprenticeship programs understand how to align with the workforce system. 

These online training modules from Apprenticeship Carolina offer easily accessible training for mentoring in apprenticeship and include lessons for general mentoring and specific lessons for mentorship in healthcare and in manufacturing.

The Youth Apprenticeship Intermediary Project from the Urban Institute provides tools, resources, and technical assistance to connect schools, colleges, employers, workforce development organizations, and other stakeholders to increase the quality and quantity of registered youth apprenticeships. 

This brief from the Urban Institute provides information about the many functions that local workforce boards serve. Apprenticeship professionals can use this information to consider how to leverage partnerships with workforce boards in their expansion efforts.

Sample apprenticeship aptitude test developed by NW Indiana Building Trades Council to help people prepare for the type of aptitude tests that some apprenticeship programs require.

Operations Manual for Colorado Workforce Professionals including state expansion priorities, stakeholder roles, resources and technical assistance.

Self-assessment tool designed to help youth apprenticeship program administrators and policymakers determine how effectively a program is engaging employers and industry to meet program development, implementation, and sustainability goals.

This 30 minute video by Safal Partners covers key communication strategies about the benefits of Registered Apprenticeship.

The goal of this report is to highlight effective employer engagement practices and identify key lessons learned from implementing technology-focused apprenticeship programs. 

Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning has an Employer Engagement webpage that features promising approaches for securing buy-in from employers to build apprenticeship programs and to see the value of bringing in a more diverse pool of candidates. 

Behavioral Insights & Apprentice Sponsorship How to Apply Behavioral Insights to Improve Employer Engagement and Expand Apprenticeship, from the National Association of State Workforce Agencies provides insights and strategies that can help make communications with employers more impactful.

This resource collection includes industry-specific tools, successful program examples, and other tools and information that can be used to help start and expand Registered Apprenticeship programs in 11 different sectors.

The Urban Institute's Guide to Learning About Local Workforce Systems is an interactive resource that allows users to quickly navigate between different aspects of local workforce systems.

This resource offers quick and easy to use strategies and recommendations that apprenticeship professionals can draw on to encourage employers to engage with and support Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs). 

Explore industries to learn more about success stories of occupations companies are leveraging in apprenticeship.

This resource from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Vocational Education Research and Technical Advisory Committee (VERATAC), provides information about 21 different labor market information sources, their strengths and limitations, and when and what to use the specific data for.

USDOL provides Registered Apprenticeship information, tools, and outreach materials tailored to business needs.

Strategies, tactics, and methods leading to the development of sustainable Registered Apprenticeship programs.

Tool for employers with searchable database of educators, intermediaries, sponsors, workforce boards, apprenticeship offices, and more.

This quick reference guide provides information about how Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs can support Registered Apprenticeship Program sponsors, employers, and apprentices in a variety of ways.

Resource designed to help states consider five dimensions of system alignment, and explore strategies to strengthen alignment.

Guide for local workforce professionals on key players, what role(s) those partners typically play in supporting Registered Apprenticeship programs, and leadership roles.

30 minute video provides information about how Adult Basic Education and Career Technical Education programs work with pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships

This guide to partner engagement from the Commonwealth Corporation provides strategies for building partnerships from outreach to sustainability. Though designed for workforce development practitioners, the processes are easily adaptable in the apprenticeship space.

30 minute video explores strategies for bridging the gap between adult education programs and Registered Apprenticeship.

The Urban Institute's Guide to Learning About Local Workforce Systems is an interactive resource that allows users to quickly navigate between different aspects of local workforce systems.

Self-assessment and planning tool for local, state, or regional lead entities and their partners in gauging their current capacity to establish a high-quality system for high school-based youth apprenticeships.

This short video from the Urban Institute provides an introduction to the National Occupational Frameworks. The video gives an overview of the National Occupational Frameworks, outlines the content included in each framework, and describes how the frameworks can be used to streamline and accelerate development of Registered Apprenticeship Programs.

Toolkit for colleges to build, register and sustain Registered Apprenticeship programs.

Self-paced, online training course that helps apprenticeship program designers choose between an approach that advances apprentices based on their time learning, competencies learned, or a combination of the two.

Outlines key steps in program development, important considerations when building a new program, and tools to get started.

Interactive , self-paced PowerPoint on types and components of program review to provide an understanding of the program review process for sponsors.

Video with high-level overview of the program review process to help sponsors prepare for program reviews.

Quick reference guide for RAP sponsors to understand an overview of the apprenticeship program review process.

This resource from Health Profession Opportunities Grants provides technical assistance to support the creation of healthcare training and career pathways that meet the needs of local communities by using labor market information.

US DOL ETA Registered Apprenticeship Standards Builder.

Office of Apprenticeship staff manual for completing comprehensive reviews of Registered Apprenticeship Programs.

This guide from USDOL provides the basics of building a HS apprenticeship program and includes examples of program strategies.

The Urban Institute's National Occupational Frameworks Success Stories provides examples of how three organizations—an employer, an industry association, and a State Apprenticeship Agency—have used the frameworks to advance their apprenticeship efforts.

The Urban Institute's Registered Apprenticeship Standards library is a robust resource with thousands of occupational standards in a variety of industries. The library includes time-based and competency-based standards as well as National Guideline standards and National Occupational Frameworks.

This USDOL resource from Training and Employment Notice 31-16 covers workers' compensation for apprentices that are minors.

USDOL resource from Training and Employment Notice 31-16 covers child labor laws for apprentices that are under the age of 18.

Information, resources, and technical assistance for federal and state staff and sponsors to support required program reviews.

This guide from the Urban Institute provides apprenticeship professionals with an understanding of how National Occupational Frameworks are created and how they can be used to develop and register high-quality apprenticeship programs.

Apprenticeship template library.

Urban Institute's National Apprenticeship Hub features research and tools that can support apprenticeship professionals to support employers in designing high-quality programs in a variety of industries.

The National Library includes on-the-job learning outlines, classroom instruction outlines, and other information. Healthcare partners may review, select, and adapt the occupational outlines and competency models to their apprenticeship efforts.​

Cybersecurity Youth Apprenticeship Initiative guide compilation of government resources that are available for tax credits for apprenticeship programs in each State/Territory.

New America and the PAYA National Partners have developed these tools to support the design of high quality apprenticeships for youth.

Urban Institute’s competency-based frameworks provide high quality registered apprenticeship standards for various in-demand occupations.

State and federal resources to support the growth and development of youth apprenticeship.

This resource identifies several myths about Registered Apprenticeship and provides a response for each.

Overview of Office of Apprenticeship and State Apprenticeship Agency distinctions, and an interactive map with links to contact information for every State's appropriate contacts.

A series of webcasts and webinars covering foundational knowledge of the Registered Apprenticeship system.

An overview of Registered Apprenticeship, including key elements.

Step-by-step manual explains the registration process and provides a workbook for mapping out a plan during meetings and other discussions with employers in their journey to registering their apprenticeship program.

This US DOL Reference Guide for Apprenticeship details the requirements that sponsors are obligated to fulfill in order to administer a Registered Apprenticeship Program.

Browse by industry, search by occupation, or download the full list of apprenticeable occupations here.

Mentor guide for experienced workers who teach and advise youth apprentices at work.

This training tool helps prepare mentors for success.

Toolkit of resources for secondary school administrators to advocate for and build apprenticeship programs and strengthen school and business partnerships.

This fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Labor Chief Evaluation Office provides considerations for improving efforts to recruit and retain apprentices across three areas: recruitment, learning, and apprentice environment.

American Institutes for Research (AIR) has published a brief called Improving Apprenticeship Completion Rates which summarizes a review of the research about apprenticeship completion and provides recommendations for strategies and practices to increase retention and completion rates.