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Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning
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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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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
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.
Resources
Latest Resources
Report/Research
Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Learn promising practices in building and growing successful apprenticeship programs for opportunity youth.
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A Business Pledge to Increase Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship
Take the Pledge to Show Your Support to Increase Access to Apprenticeship Opportunities for Underrepresented Populations.
Webinar Recording
Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Age: Employers Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the U.S. Registered Apprenticeship System
JFF celebrates the launch of its new national Center of Excellence to Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Registered Apprenticeship through lively roundtable discussions with employers on the importance of DEIA in apprenticeships.
Featured Resource
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.
Blog
Latest Blog Posts
Report/Research
Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Learn promising practices in building and growing successful apprenticeship programs for opportunity youth.
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This National Apprenticeship Week, Let’s Support Employers in Developing Equitable Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship can put workers on pathways to jobs in well-paid careers, but many workers don’t have opportunities to benefit from all that apprenticeship offers. JFF calls on employers to take our pledge to promote inclusion and diversity in apprenticeship.
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Modern Apprenticeships Need Modern Preparation: Five Reasons States Should Recognize Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
As Registered Apprenticeship grows, pre-apprenticeships provide a new entry point into the workforce for a new generation of learners and workers.
Featured Blog Post
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.