ASA Tailored Student Resource Informational Page
To help you pursue quality postsecondary training pathways, we created the Pathfinder Guide and Checklist. This guide enables you to move from thinking about job opportunities to planning for a thriving career by preparing you…
High Road Training Fund
About the CWDB The overarching goal of California’s Workforce Development Board is the reorientation and realignment of California’s workforce programs and institutions to help build a dynamic and globally successful state economy that offers residents…
Designing With Equity in Mind: An Action Toolkit for Competency-Based Education
Higher education is meant to be an engine of economic opportunity and mobility. But for too long, institutions have struggled to offer equitable access and produce equitable outcomes for all learners. Individuals from a range…
Building Effective Technology Internships
A three-year study that JFF conducted for the National Science Foundation shows that community college technology internships can be effective bridges to employment for postsecondary students. The research showed that when internships were required for…
How Career and Technical Education Can Provide Today’s Youth With Pathways to College and Career Success
High-quality career and technical education (CTE) programs represent an effective way to provide young adults with an educational experience that prepares them for both college and career success. But not all CTE programs provide accessible…
Youth Apprenticeship: A Vision for the Future, A Plan for Today
Learn more about the promise of apprenticeship for in-school and out-of-school youth. Learn more about the promise of apprenticeship for in-school and out-of-school youth. Visit JFF's Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning Panels Introduction &…
Youth Apprenticeship in Action: Principles in Practice
This brief explains how the core components of youth apprenticeship programs fit together and presents a set of principles that providers can adopt to improve the quality of their programs. Youth apprenticeship is a proven…
Providing Support for Community Colleges Now, and a Lever for Transformative Change
With JFF’s support of implementations of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate program, participating community colleges demonstrated that a competency-based curriculum could successfully help low-credentialed adults advance in the IT sector. With JFF’s support of…
Nonprofits Offer a Road Map for Colleges Implementing the Google IT Certificate Program
This brief offers a look at actionable strategies developed by nonprofit organizations that community colleges can follow to increase learner retention, completion, and job placement rates through short-term and online workforce training models. This brief…