Apprenticeship Grants Co-Enrollment FAQs and Webcast
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State apprenticeship expansion grantees can serve a participant with more than one grant-funded program—or co-enroll them—as a way to provide comprehensive services for the participant. However, there are some restrictions around such co-enrollments. This page looks at the definition of co-enrollment more closely and summarizes the resources available to help grantees understand flexibilities and limitations around co-enrollments.
Definition of Co-Enrollment
What is co-enrollment? Co-enrollment is defined as enrolling a participant in more than one grant, contract, or cooperative agreement program that is funded with apprenticeship-appropriated funds and where they are receiving grant-, contract-, or cooperative agreement-funded participant services. Co-enrollment services can include:
- Training, such as related technical instruction and on-the-job learning/on-the-job training;
- Supportive services; and
- Other activities supported by Employment and Training Administration funds
Co-enrollment is intended to maximize the number of resources available to participants in apprenticeship, while minimizing duplication of services.
OA’s Co-Enrollment FAQs
The Office of Apprenticeship (OA) frequently asked questions (FAQs) document about co-enrollment of participants in grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements funded with apprenticeship-appropriated funds and other U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)-funded grants states that grantees cannot co-enroll participants more than once in the same OA-funded program. State apprenticeship expansion grants are considered the same program. Therefore, participants cannot be co-enrolled in more than one state apprenticeship expansion grant, which includes SAE, ASE, SAE 2020, SAEEI, and SAEF grants.
The FAQs state that they do not pertain to H-1B-funded grants. The H-1B Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies Key Policy Clarifications resource addresses H-1B-funded grants and confirms that a participant may be co-enrolled in an H-1B-funded grant and a state apprenticeship expansion grant.
Co-Enrollment Webcast
A March 2021 co-enrollment webcast walks grantees through the purpose of co-enrollment; DOL’s position on co-enrollment for apprenticeship appropriated funds and H-1B-funded apprenticeship grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements; FAQs; and roles and responsibilities. The webcast also introduces several possible scenarios of co-enrollment and explains why each would or would not be allowed. The webcast can be found along with the webcast transcript in the Related Content section on the left side of this page.
State Apprenticeship Expansion Grants FAQ Documents
Finally, you can find information in the FAQs for each state apprenticeship expansion grant on co-enrollment and related issues such as serving someone as a "participant" in a state apprenticeship expansion grant if that person has already been reported as a reportable individual in another state expansion grant. See the relevant questions and answers here:
If you have any questions, please contact your assigned federal project officer.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2023
- Posted by: Jon Vehlow
- Posted in: State Apprenticeship Grants