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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
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
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
Webinar Recording
Getting Serious: Apprenticeship Equity Solutions for Employers and Sponsors
JFF’s National Innovation Hub for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility hosted this first-of-its-kind, two-day virtual summit in May 2022. Hear from employers across the country on how they’re using the earn-and-learn model of apprenticeship to build skilled, diverse workforces.
Tool
Registered Apprenticeship Roles and Responsibilities: Intermediaries and Sponsors
This tool helps organizations decide whether they should serve as an intermediary or sponsor and identify the skills and resources they will need to successfully implement the role that they decide to play.
Report/Research
Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Learn promising practices in building and growing successful apprenticeship programs for opportunity youth.
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
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Apprenticeship Shaped My Post-Prison Life — Employers Will Benefit from Others Like Me
Partnerships between employers and prison industries are a win for companies, the economy, and aspiring workers after incarceration.
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Five Reasons Companies Should Use SHRM’s HR Specialist Apprenticeship Program to Hire Their Future HR Workforce
Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the SHRM HR RAP provides employers with a proven talent development solution for onboarding or upskilling human resource specialists. It also provides apprentices with a cost-effective and efficient point of entry into a well-developed career pathway in HR.
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How Registered Apprenticeship Led Me From Black History to Black Opportunity
A true commitment to DEIA from employers and partners, with JFF’s help, can make apprenticeship live up to its promise.
Featured Blog Post
Modern Apprenticeships Need Modern Preparation: Five Reasons States Should Recognize Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
Formally recognizing pre-apprenticeship programs in alignment with consistent quality standards would drive diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the apprenticeship system and the broader workforce.