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Registered Apprenticeship is an earn-while-you-learn training model that helps apprentices develop the right skills in an in-demand career while helping employers build critical talent pipelines.
According to Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System (RAPIDS) information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship:
Key historical outcomes from the 2025 Registered Apprenticeship Report and RAPIDS data:
The Going PRO Talent Fund makes awards to employers to assist in training, developing and retaining current and newly hired employees. Training funded must be short-term, fill a demonstrated talent need experienced by the employer, and lead to a credential for a skill that is transferable and recognized by industry.
Since the program’s launch in 2014:
For Fiscal Year 2024 funding, the average hourly wage increase by Going PRO Talent Fund participants is nearly $3 among employees who were retained at least 6 months.
The M3 Initiative is further supported by an $8 million U.S. Department of Labor’s Industry-Driven Skills Training Fund grant and an additional $3.6 million investment from the Make It In Michigan Competitiveness Fund. This effort — which is designed to revitalize the domestic shipbuilding industry by helping train workers in welding, marine electrical, manufacturing and other skilled trades — will kick off in 2026, providing training for 720 Michiganders.
M3 will establish training pipelines and programs to meet the Navy’s need for thousands of new workers and jobs across the state and the broader Great Lakes region. The initiative has implemented a training curriculum focused on maritime welding and CNC machining with the scale and speed needed to fill manufacturing and engineering gaps in the maritime workforce. The effort will also connect the next-generation workforce to the Navy’s enduring maritime mission, and the need to increase its competitive advantage from the industrial base out to sea.
Macomb Community College was selected by the U.S. Navy’s urgent need to have the capacity and ability to implement the accelerated maritime training in CNC machining and welding as part of the M3 Initiative’s Industry Partnership. Backed by a $15.4 million investment from the U.S. Navy, Macomb has established a state-of-the-art maritime skilled trades training center and will provide training for 384 individuals through early 2027.
The M3 Initiative is further supported by an $8 million U.S. Department of Labor’s Industry-Driven Skills Training Fund grant and an additional $3.6 million investment from the Make It In Michigan Competitiveness Fund. This effort — which is designed to revitalize the domestic shipbuilding industry by helping train workers in welding, marine electrical, manufacturing and other skilled trades — will kick off in 2026.
Macomb Community College has trained and graduated 105 total M3 graduates:
Workforce Development provides funding to the state’s 16 Michigan Works! agencies to support locally developed career exploration and experience events featuring businesses and industries within each agency’s region.
This initiative — designed to benefit individuals, employers and communities — is focused on preparing our future workforce, keeping youth in Michigan and helping them acquire in-demand skills and postsecondary credentials.
To accomplish this, each Michigan Works! agency coordinates multiple business and industry representatives at a single location or virtual platform, including MiCareerQuestTM events or similar career exploration and experience events. These interactive, best-in-class events are designed to engage middle and high school students through hands-on activities and one-on-one conversations with professionals from various industries.
During the program year that ended June 2025, Michigan Works! agencies hosted 27 large-scale career exploration and experience events throughout the state with more than 51,400 students and about 1,100 employers participating.
In addition to career explorations events, LEO-WD’s Workforce Innovation Team supports a variety of other youth-focused initiatives, including Talent Tours and Jobs for Michigan’s Graduates, a program that helps the state address dropout prevention and dropout recovery with innovative school-to-career services.
In support of Michigan’s food and agricultural industry — which contributes more than $110 billion annually to our state’s economy — Workforce Development’s Agricultural & Foreign Labor Services (AFLS) team provides a variety of direct services to support migrant and seasonal farm workers and Michigan’s agricultural employers. The Team is comprised of Agricultural Employment Services, Foreign Labor Services and National Farmworker Jobs Program.
AFLS is charged with centralizing and streamlining employment and training services for employers and migrant and seasonal farm workers. They accomplish this by engaging farmworkers in employment and supporting services and employers to enhance employment and training opportunities and improve quality of life for these critical workers and their families.
AFLS took on an expanded role in 2025 — they began administering the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) throughout Michigan. With its focus on supporting agricultural employers and low-income, eligible agriculture workers, NFJP offers Career Services and Training as well as a Housing Assistance Program. These services help Michigan’s economy grow by retaining and attracting global talent.
In 2025, the AFLS team provided outreach services more than 28,000 agricultural workers and over 800 agricultural employers. The team served more than 4,500 migrant and seasonal farm workers with 3,700 transitioned to participant-level career services including referrals to jobs, training programs, support services and individual career services. And thanks to the ALFS team’s collaborative efforts, more than 1,500 were placed into long-term non-agricultural jobs.
