Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning

At a Glance

This tried-and-true training model has been around for so long because it works. JFF is a leader in expanding apprenticeship and work-based learning to new industries and professions.

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Design

Invest

Scale

Influence

Areas of Work

Meeting Employer Needs
Preparing for the Future of Work
Ensuring Equity in Advancement

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Experts Involved

Eric M. Seleznow
Senior Advisor
Deborah Kobes
Senior Director
Andrea Messing-Mathie
Director
Myriam Sullivan
Director

Status

In progress

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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.

About the Center

About Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning

Learn how to plan for, create, and sustain an apprenticeship program

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.

Since starting to work with JFF, there’s a number of milestones we’ve achieved. We can say we finally have momentum.

Orrian Willis, program manager, TechSF

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Expanding Apprenticeship to Opportunity Youth

Since 2019, JFF has enrolled more than 100 opportunity youth into apprenticeship programs and started a cohort of 15 programs across the country.

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Complete your Standards of Apprenticeship—an essential part of registering an apprenticeship program—with this training course.

This self-paced, online training course walks you through how to identify occupations that are a good fit for youth apprenticeship based on a five-step occupational selection approach.

Youth sports participation is a foundation of childhood for many Americans—parents encourage it, kids enjoy it, and schools support it. Listen to this webinar recording to hear how this type of talent development model could be applied to youth apprenticeship programs in a variety of in-demand industries.

JFF's Framework for a High-Quality IT Pre-Apprenticeship Program

This pre-apprenticeship framework outlines the six key characteristics of a high-quality pre-apprenticeship program with a focus on the IT industry.

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Amateur sports has a built-in learn-to-work model, industry support, and the cultural relevance that leads to success.

As we honor Black History Month, an honest look at our racist past reveals a more equitable path for the future of apprenticeship and workforce development in our country.

The National Apprenticeship Act of 2021 will provide an influx of funding to modernize apprenticeship and create opportunities for millions of Americans.

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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If you’re ... able to recruit women into your program, then you’ll be ... getting somebody into an apprenticeship program who’s really desirable among employers.

We must create a more purposeful approach to inclusive apprenticeship—one that seeks to right historic wrongs in workforce opportunity.

This work is about helping to ensure that the Registered Apprenticeship model can fulfill its historic promise and better reflect the vast diversity of the American worker today.

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