• Text for the Pre-Apprenticeship Guide and Toolkit, with logos for New Ways to Work and the California Opportunity Youth Network.

    Pre-Apprenticeship Handbook & Toolkit

    A Practical Resource For Workforce & Education Professionals A pre-apprenticeship is a workforce preparation program designed to help individuals gain the skills, experience, and support they need to successfully enter and complete a Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP). Think of it as an on-ramp. Pre-apprenticeship doesn’t replace apprenticeship—it preparespeople for it. Typical programs run somewhere between…

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  • Report cover titled “California’s Hidden Gem: An Introduction and Overview of California’s Adult Education System,” featuring logos for New Ways to Work and the California Opportunity Youth Network.

    California’s Hidden Gem: An Overview Of The Adult Education System

    And Introduction and overview of California’s adult education system as a key partner in workforce development and economic recovery. There is great potential and opportunity for social change and economic recovery in California. Yet,we know that for many younger and older adults in our communities, the promises of equitable access for all to educational and…

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  • NYC Public Schools Work-Based Learning Toolkit homepage with buttons for Schools, Employers, and Downloads.

    Quality Work-Based Learning Toolkit, NYC DOE

    The NYC Department of Education’s Work-Based Learning Toolkit was developed to assist school leadership, work-based learning coordinators, teachers and their intermediary partners in designing, implementing and supporting quality Work-Based Learning activities for high-school students. The toolkit is aligned with the Domains of College and Career Readiness and is intended to support larger school wide efforts…

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  • Three young adults collaborate around a tablet in a circular frame, next to logos for COYN, New Ways to Work, L.A. Opportunity Youth Collaborative, and the Alliance for Children’s Rights.

    COYN Action Guide: Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways For Opportunity Youth

    A roadmap to expand access to and improve the quality of workforce and career development services provided for 16- to 24-year-old opportunity youth – defined as youth who are disconnected from both school and work as well as those who have experienced foster care, the justice system or homelessness. The frameworks themselves are intentionally ambitious…

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  • Flowchart titled “Career Development Continuum” illustrating three stages: Awareness, Exploration, and Preparation, each with corresponding structured learning, community activities, and work-based learning.

    Career Development Continuum (CDC)

    Preparing all youth for success in college, career, and life. Students and young adults are provided a range of career development opportunities across the continuum through partner-ships between their school or youth organization and employers and community or governmental organizations. This chart lists all of the activities across the continuum, whether they happen through structured…

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  • Infographic titled “Elements of a Comprehensive Local Youth-Serving System,” illustrating four pillars: academic achievement, career development, youth leadership, and community services and support.

    All Youth One System: Elements Of A Comprehensive, Youth-Serving System

    This framework guides partners in implementing the five elements of a comprehensive, youth-serving system. In a comprehensive and connected local youth system, programs, initiatives, and institutions work together to eliminate the duplication of services, maximize the impacts of multiple funding sources, and implement long-range plans to improve outcomes for the youth they serve. There is…

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  • Infographic titled “Quality Work-Based Learning” displaying a central diagram about skill attainment surrounded by four quadrants of text describing supported, structured, designed, and connected actions.

    Quality Work-Based Learning Guide & Frameworks

    Creating Quality Work-Based Learning provides an introduction to the principles of Quality Work-Based Learning and lays the foundation for developing any work-based learning experience. The Seven Simple Guidelines presented in this guide focus on the “must-haves” for quality experiences that have powerful impacts on the career development potential for youth and young adults. This guide…

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