New RA Technical Assistance Website

The RA TA Center of Excellence on Strategic Partnerships & Systems Alignment recently launched a new website offering news, tools, events, and resources to help employers, workforce system stakeholders, and educators build strategic partnerships and better align RA across systems. The easy-to-navigate site provides: 

• downloadable tools and links to RA materials
• ability to request TA 
• sign-up to become a nationally-recognized Center partner
• apprenticeship news relevant to workforce and education system alignment 
• information on upcoming events
• and more!

Workforce staff can access resources to better integrate RA into their state or local workforce board service planning and meet critical WIOA performance metrics. Industry employers can learn how to adopt RA to meet workforce needs and access expert RA subject matter expertise from Center staff. Educators can learn how to engage in RA - as a sponsor, training provider, and/or intermediary - and build partnerships with local employers expand student pipelines into RA pathways. Visit the website today!

Center Launches Work in California

Regional Workshops Open for Registration: August 2, 4, 9

The California Workforce Association (CWA), Safal Partners and RA leaders from across the state, kicked off the Center’s focused work in California a a recent CWA WorkCon preconference session to a standing-room only audience. Over two days nearly 200 individuals from workforce, industry, education and government joined our workshop and panel sessions to learn about the Center's work to increase system alignment, discuss challenges and opportunities in scaling RA, and offer policy recommendations to better integrate RA with workforce and education.

August Regional Sessions

As a next step, the Center, CWA and the Center leadership team is hosting a series of three “Strategic Doing” across the state to engage organizations like yours. 

These free sessions will be held:

• August 2 - Sacramento
• August 4 - Clovis
• August 9 - Long Beach

Meeting attendees will benefit by

• developing strategic partnerships across industry, workforce, education, and local government to advance apprenticeship; and
• jointly developing implementable plans with practical "next steps" to expand RA adoption and improve system alignment at the state and local level.

Questions? Email Judy Blanchard at [email protected] 

Please invite your partners (i.e. K-12 and adult educators, CTE Centers and high schools, community colleges, workforce boards, industry, community organizations, etc.) to attend. Make this a networking opportunity and work group time for your organization to build upon your local apprenticeship efforts so far.

To Register

Visit the CWA site and register for one or more of the scheduled free sessions: 

• August 2 - Sacramento (8-12pm)
• August 4 - Clovis (8–12pm)
• August 9 - Long Beach (8-12pm)

Note: You can sign up as a team by selecting your local workforce development board for your team.

If you are attending a session outside of your region, please pick whatever workforce board you would like to team up with on this day.

Adult Basic Education

Registered Apprenticeship Knowledge Survey

The Coalition of Adult Basic Education (COABE), a national partner for the Center of Excellence, is conducting a national assessment of Adult Education providers' knowledge of RA. Findings from this assessment will guide the Center's work in developing TA tools and resources to better align Adult Education Programs with RA. 

Adult education providers have until July 29 to complete the short 5-minute assessment You can also join a more in-depth conversation and become a partner with the Center of Excellence. Learn more on our website! All those who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to win a $200 Amazon gift card. Survey reports will be shared this fall. 

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