4. How do Eligible Training Providers become certified?

For a training program to become certified as an Eligible Training Provider and get listed on the Statewide List of Eligible Training Providers, it must be nominated by its Local Workforce Investment Board. To become nominated, the training program must make an application to the LWIB. 

Part of that application process for most union-sponsored training programs is the submission of performance data to assure that all eligible training providers meet performance levels that are set by the governor of each state.  Union-sponsored occupational training programs, including pre-apprenticeship programs that do not operate under the National Apprenticeship Act must therefore submit performance information for initial eligibility. 

But WIA gives registered apprenticeship training programs special consideration by automatically deeming them to have met those performance standards.  Therefore, registered apprenticeship training programs do not have to submit performance data with their initial applications. Despite this automatic pre-qualification, registered apprenticeship programs are not automatically added to the Statewide List of Certified Training Providers.  Their LWIBs must still submit their nominations for the state list, which means that registered apprenticeship programs must still make an application to their Local WIB(s).  

All union-sponsored occupational training programs, including registered apprenticeship programs, need to provide performance data for subsequent Training Provider List eligibility renewals.

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