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