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