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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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