The LOUISIANAWORKS Apprenticeship Division provides technical assistance for the development of apprenticeship standards. Employers, trade associations, and unions design, organize, manage, and finance registered apprenticeship programs under a set of apprenticeship standards, which include an on-the-job training outline, related classroom instruction curriculum and the apprenticeship operating procedures. These standards are then approved and registered through the Registered Apprenticeship Division.
The Director of Work-Based Learning oversees the division, and is supported by an Apprenticeship Supervisor, and Apprenticeship Navigators.
Registered Apprenticeship is a nationally recognized, voluntary, industry-driven training program. Training Programs can be a partnership of business and organized labor as the primary operators of programs, or implemented by employers or employer associations.
The division is also responsible for developing materials and conducting a program of public awareness to secure the adoption of training in skilled occupations and related training policies and practices used by employers, unions, and other organizations; developing policies and plans to enhance opportunities for minority and female participation in skilled training; and coordinating the effective use of resources to create a clear training-to-employment corridor for customers of the workforce development system.
