This notice presents a framework for workforce stakeholders to engage the public workforce system in implementing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law with strong workforce commitments and proven strategies that generate high-quality education, training, and employment opportunities for workers.  

This fact sheet provides an overview of both Registered Apprenticeships and Community Workforce Agreements, and outlines strategies, best practices, and resources for expanding programs in both areas. 

This resource presents guidelines for developing an effective community workforce agreement (CWA), drawing from a survey of over 20 CWAs that have been implemented across the country. It defines seven core elements of an effective CWA and includes examples and sample language. Apprenticeship-related goals are discussed in two of the core elements – articulating hiring goals and defining the targeted employment categories.   

This page provides a compilation of “Apprenticeship 101” resources and tools sourced from various pages across the WorkforceGPS Communities. 

This toolkit outlines key steps and resources for starting and registering an apprenticeship program, from exploring the apprenticeship model as a workforce strategy to launching a new program. 

This webpage provides key resources on registered apprenticeship for the IRA, which amended the Internal Revenue Code to include prevailing wage and Registered Apprenticeship incentives for taxpayers constructing qualified clean energy projects.  

This platform provides the names, locations, and service areas of each workforce development board (WDB), state-by-state. WDBs oversee the American Job Centers and direct federal, state, and local funding to workforce development programs.  

This brief explores strategies that leading companies and industry associations are using to make apprenticeship models more diverse and inclusive and, in turn, advance equity in their companies and the communities they serve.  

The framework outlines six essential programmatic of high-quality pre-apprenticeships programs, which can be customized to specific populations or industries. 

The portal for North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) comprehensive apprenticeship readiness programs (ARPs). These programs focus on gaining access for women, people of color, and transitioning veterans to Building Trades’ registered apprenticeship programs. ARPs are administered by state and local Building Trades Councils and they teach NABTU’s nationally recognized Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3). 

This guide introduces the concepts of local and targeted hiring policies, answers key questions for states and cities looking to implement these policies and presents successful cases from around the country.