; (II) disseminating best practices to recruit nontraditional apprenticeship populations, such as women, minorities, long-term unemployed individuals, individuals with a disability, individuals recovering from substance abuse disorders, veterans, military spouses, individuals experiencing homelessness, formerly incarcerated individuals, and foster and former foster youth; and (III) engaging small, medium-size, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses, and employers in high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand industry sectors and occupations that are nontraditional apprenticeship occupations; and (ii) supporting the participation and retention in the national apprenticeship system of apprentices and employers from the populations and businesses and industry sectors and occupations, respectively, described in clause (i). (2) Technical assistance activities The Administrator shall carry out technical assistance activities with respect to this Act, including the following: (A) Providing technical assistance to— (i) assist State apprenticeship agencies and sponsors in complying with the requirements of this Act, including with respect to developing the State plan in section 113(c), the process and standards described in subtitle B, and the evaluation and research requirements described in subtitle C; (ii) receive and resolve comments or complaints from youth apprentices, pre-apprentices, or apprentices, sponsors, employers, State apprenticeship agencies, State local workforce agencies or local workforce agencies, State educational agencies or local educational agencies, qualified intermediaries, labor organizations, joint labor-management organizations, or other stakeholders; (iii) assist (including by providing assistance for remote or virtual learning or training, as necessary)— (I) sponsors, employers, qualified intermediaries, and education and training or related instruction providers