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Office of Apprenticeship
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The Office of Apprenticeship promotes, engages and assists industry in the development, expansion and improvement of Registered Apprenticeship. The program is designed to provide skilled workers required by U.S. employers, ensure equal employment opportunities, and ensure the quality of all new and existing Registered Apprenticeship programs.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
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Awarded grants to 42 states and U.S. territories. These grants are intended to support activities that improve states’ ability to serve, improve and expand the registered apprenticeship model by strengthening the national apprenticeship system, promoting system alignment and partnerships, and improving data sharing and data integrity. The majority of states received awards of $450,000. Additionally, 11 of those states received a second level of funding, ranging from $3,000,000 to $9,000,000.
Awarded State Apprenticeship Expansion, Equity and Innovation grants, ranging from $2,000,000-$10,000,000 to bolster states’ efforts to expand programming and inclusive recruitment strategies to attract a diverse workforce.
Awarded cooperative agreements to establish 4 registered apprenticeship technical assistance centers of excellence. Each center is its own topic: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Data Performance and Best Practices; Apprenticeship Occupations and Standards; and Strategic Partnerships and Alignment. Awards ranged from $4,000,000 to $13,000,000.
Awarded 30 competitive grants to community-based organizations, workforce intermediaries, state agencies and, education institutions across four categories to ensure access to quality RAPs for all Americans:
Category 1: State Apprenticeship System Building and Modernization; Category 2: Expansion of RAP Opportunities for Youth; Category 3: Ensuring Equitable RAP Pathways Through Pre-Apprenticeship Leading to RAP Enrollment and Equity Partnerships; and Category 4: Registered Apprenticeship Hubs to facilitate the establishment, scaling, and expansion of RAPs in new and fast-growing industries and occupations.
Awards ranged from $2,000,000 to $8,000,000.
Total apprentices served reflecting the diversity of America’s available workforce – 860,066. Total Annual Number of Apprentices served from underserved communities – 426,301. Data and Statistics Enhancement: Office of Apprenticeship published a dashboard with disaggregated data publicly on apprenticeship.gov through the Department’s Enterprise Data Platform. The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) integrates data from existing reporting and case management systems (Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Database System – RAPIDS). This modern analytics-focused architecture connects internal and external data sets (mix of structured and unstructured data) to support diverse use cases for legacy data analysis, ongoing statistical, routine business reporting, trend and pattern evaluation, for participants in registered apprenticeship. The platform enables users to disaggregate data by race and ethnicity, industry, occupation, from a state or national perspective. Future enhancements of the tool will incorporate investment data for strategic growth targeting where effort should be prioritized to grow registered apprenticeships.
The U.S. Department of Labor awarded nearly $195m in Apprenticeship Building America, Round 2 (ABA2) grants to 43 grantees including but not limited to Institutes of Higher Education, Community Based Organizations, Nonprofit Organizations, Workforce Development System Entities, State Education Agencies, and a Labor Union. ABA2 builds on efforts funded under the first round of the ABA grants awarded in 2022, which continues to expand, diversify, and strengthen the Registered Apprenticeship system through support for public/private partnerships designed to serve a range of industries and individuals. Through the ABA2 grant program, grantees will work with industry, including employers, labor unions, and other stakeholders to leverage the development of RAPs to help bolster the workforce and meet industry talent needs, particularly in sectors that align with President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, including historic legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden such as the American Rescue Plan Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The U.S. Department of Labor also awarded nearly $89m in State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula Grants, Round 2 (SAEF2) to states and territories to increase their ability to expand, diversify, and modernize the National Apprenticeship system. These awards fund the second year of a five-year apprenticeship investment plan for states and territories to increase their ability to serve, improve, and strategically expand Registered Apprenticeship programs. Awards include annual formula funding to 46 states and territories and additional funding to 9 states committed to increasing sustainability and substantially increasing the total number and diversity of Registered Apprentices and RAPs within their State. This funding builds on the Administration’s commitment to expand the registered apprenticeship system to reward work, rebuild the middle class, and connect a diverse workforce to family supporting, living wage jobs, while addressing systemic barriers to equity, justice, education, excellence, economic opportunity, and equality faced by underrepresented and underserved populations.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
