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Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning
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Welcome to the new digital home of JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning!
We may have shifted to a new venue on JFF’s website, but we will continue to provide the valuable information you have come to expect, and we believe it will now be easier for you to access helpful resources and connect with JFF’s wealth of expertise on broader workforce and education topics. We hope you enjoy our new online experience!
About
JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning provides expert guidance and resources on effective approaches to work-based learning that benefit businesses, students, and workers.
Key Topics
Our Work
We work with businesses, intermediaries, government agencies, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, training providers, workforce boards, and more to develop, scale, and promote effective apprenticeship and work-based learning programs that work for a range of participants.
Orrian Willis, program manager, TechSFSince starting to work with JFF, there’s a number of milestones we’ve achieved. We can say we finally have momentum.
Featured Project
Industry Partnership Apprenticeship Intermediary
Since 2016, JFF has enrolled more than 3,000 new apprentices and worked closely with nearly 1,000 businesses in advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, and energy/utilities.
Resources
Latest Resources
Report/Research
Growing Opportunities in Manufacturing through Bilingual Upskilling
The bilingual GOAL training program provides opportunities for English Language Learners to progress in advanced manufacturing careers.
Multimedia
System Navigator: Work-Based Learning
This System Navigator will help you identify the key connection points of your work-based learning system.
Tool
JFF's Framework for a High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship Program
These 6 aspirational characteristics of high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs can build equity and improve success in new or existing programs.
Pre-apprenticeship programs can be delivered by a range of entities and are designed to prepare underprepared learners, students, and new workers to enter and succeed in Registered Apprenticeships or other high-quality apprenticeship programs, and ultimately careers.
This framework can be used by new or existing programs to help guide their growth and development.
Featured Resource
Promising Trends and Challenges in Work-Based Learning: A Market Scan of Organizations and Tools
A market scan of K–12 and postsecondary career exploration and work-based learning solutions.
Blog
Latest Blog Posts
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Bilingual Training Can Lead to Equitable Economic Recovery
With the nation facing an urgent need to redesign workforce and education systems, an innovative program called GOAL can serve as a model that inspires bold leaders to take a new approach to job training.
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Apprenticeship Is Vital to Manufacturing's Post-Pandemic Recovery
As we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, apprenticeship can play an important role in efforts to foster an equitable economic recovery as a key component of new talent development programs and efforts to retrain or upskill current workers.
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We Must Sustain Apprenticeship in a Post-Pandemic Downturn
One of our nation’s most successful job training strategies is at risk of losing momentum. Supporters must take action to maintain apprenticeship gains if the pandemic leads to recession.
Featured Blog Post
We Need to Raise the Bar on Pre-Apprenticeships
Pre-apprenticeships can help workers from underrepresented populations become “apprenticeship ready.” But these programs lack consistent standards and expectations.