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Pre-Apprenticeship Handbook & Toolkit
Read more: Pre-Apprenticeship Handbook & ToolkitA 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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California’s Hidden Gem: An Overview Of The Adult Education System
Read more: California’s Hidden Gem: An Overview Of The Adult Education SystemAnd 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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Quality Work-Based Learning Toolkit, NYC DOE
Read more: Quality Work-Based Learning Toolkit, NYC DOEThe 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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COYN Action Guide: Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways For Opportunity Youth
Read more: COYN Action Guide: Expanding Workforce & Career Development Pathways For Opportunity YouthA 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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Career Development Continuum (CDC)
Read more: 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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All Youth One System: Elements Of A Comprehensive, Youth-Serving System
Read more: All Youth One System: Elements Of A Comprehensive, Youth-Serving SystemThis 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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Quality Work-Based Learning Guide & Frameworks
Read more: Quality Work-Based Learning Guide & FrameworksCreating 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…
