Resources

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.