C.R.S. Section 8-83-802
Apprenticeship navigator pilot program

  • navigator positions
  • report

(1)

On or before January 1, 2024, the office shall create a two-year apprenticeship navigator pilot program. The purpose of the program is to increase awareness of registered apprenticeship programs among graduating high school students and to increase participation by individuals who are eighteen years of age and older but under twenty-six years of age in registered apprenticeship programs.

(2)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(a)

The office shall create two apprenticeship navigator positions within the program as follows:

(I)

One apprenticeship navigator must be assigned to a rural school district, to be selected by the office, that does not have an established public or private apprenticeship navigator position; and

(II)

One apprenticeship navigator must be assigned to a school district that is not a rural school district, to be selected by the office, that does not have an established public or private apprenticeship navigator position.

(b)

Each apprenticeship navigator is a full-time employee of the office.

(3)

The navigators shall:

(a)

Develop informational materials regarding registered apprenticeship programs to distribute to students, parents, and school staff; and

(b)

Hold events for parents and high school students in the navigator’s assigned school district to raise awareness about registered apprenticeship program opportunities.

(4)

To further the purpose of the program, the office shall:

(a)

Utilizing the Colorado state apprenticeship resource directory established pursuant to section 8-83-308, create and maintain on the office’s public website a job board for apprenticeships and quality preapprenticeships that is marketed toward and accessible to high school students; and

(b)

Explore ways to incorporate registered apprenticeship programs into the state’s career planning tools, including the department of education’s individual career and academic plans governed by rules established by the state board of education created and existing pursuant to section 1 of article IX of the state constitution and the my Colorado journey platform administered by the state work force development council created in section 24-46.3-101.

(5)

Upon completion of the program, the department shall provide a detailed report of the direct and indirect costs for the operation and administration of the program to the house of representatives education committee and the senate education committee, or their successor committees, to allow the general assembly to evaluate the efficacy of the program and its potential for broader application in the state.

Source: Section 8-83-802 — Apprenticeship navigator pilot program - navigator positions - report, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-08.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

8‑83‑101
Definitions
8‑83‑102
Division of employment and training created - director
8‑83‑103
Powers, duties, and functions - acceptance of money
8‑83‑104
State employment service
8‑83‑105
Personnel
8‑83‑106
Division - offer waiver of confidentiality for employment purposes
8‑83‑201
Short title
8‑83‑202
Legislative declaration
8‑83‑203
Definitions
8‑83‑204
Work force development program - legislative declaration - purposes
8‑83‑205
Work force development program - creation - administration - merit system - Wagner-Peyser funded employment services
8‑83‑206
Local elected officials - function - authority
8‑83‑207
Local work force development boards - authority - functions
8‑83‑208
Implementation - local plans
8‑83‑209
State work force development plan
8‑83‑210
Work force boards - membership
8‑83‑211
Functions of work force boards
8‑83‑212.5
Work force development board standing committees
8‑83‑213
Rural consortium work force development board
8‑83‑214
Rural consortium local elected officials board
8‑83‑215
Designation of local work force development areas
8‑83‑215.5
Designation of planning regions
8‑83‑216
Required and optional partners of work force boards
8‑83‑217
Memorandum of understanding - one-stop partners
8‑83‑218
Core services
8‑83‑219
Intensive services - training services - individual training accounts
8‑83‑220
Encouragement of in-demand programs - legislative declaration
8‑83‑221
Title I and Title III allocation
8‑83‑222
County distribution formula - use of money
8‑83‑223
Allocation process
8‑83‑224
State council - duties
8‑83‑225
Colorado department of labor and employment - functions
8‑83‑226
Responsibilities of governor
8‑83‑227
Additional funding for workforce development activities - state funding not subject to federal law limitations
8‑83‑308
Colorado state apprenticeship resource directory - collection of apprenticeship program information - promotion of public awareness - definitions
8‑83‑401
Definitions
8‑83‑402
Employment support and job retention services program - creation
8‑83‑403
Program purpose - duties of the director
8‑83‑404
Administration of the program
8‑83‑405
Reports required
8‑83‑406
Employment support and job retention services program cash fund - created
8‑83‑407
Repeal of part
8‑83‑501
Legislative declaration
8‑83‑502
Definitions
8‑83‑503
Just transition office - advisory committee - repeal
8‑83‑504
Just transition cash fund - transfer from general fund - transfer from account - definition
8‑83‑504.5
Additional coal transition workforce assistance program funding - coal transition workforce assistance program account
8‑83‑505
Utility workforce transition plans - reemployment of affected workers
8‑83‑506
Report - recommendations - repeal
8‑83‑601
Definitions
8‑83‑602
Work-based learning incentive program - creation - rules - appropriation
8‑83‑602.5
Teacher externship program - creation - rules - repeal
8‑83‑603
Statewide digital navigator program - office of future work - rules - appropriation
8‑83‑701
Construction registered apprenticeship grant program - created - reports - appropriation - definitions
8‑83‑702
Repeal of part
8‑83‑801
Definitions
8‑83‑802
Apprenticeship navigator pilot program - navigator positions - report
8‑83‑803
Rules
8‑83‑804
Repeal of part
8‑83‑901
Definitions
8‑83‑902
Workforce transitions study - report
8‑83‑903
Repeal of part
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 8-83-802’s source at colorado​.gov