Connecting Apprenticeships to the Young People Who Need Them Most
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Jobs for the Future's brief, Connecting Apprenticeships to the Young People Who Need Them Most: The Role of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), provides a primer on apprenticeship for young adults; examines the range of roles CBOs can play in helping young adults access these pathways; and provides recommendations for employers, workforce boards, partners, and policymakers in bringing CBOs into a broader workforce development strategy.
Nearly 40 percent of America’s 18- to 24-year-olds are not in school and do not have a college degree, placing them at risk of unemployment or underemployment. These young adults face significant hurdles to sustainable employment: a lack of access to quality education, few opportunities for work experience or on-the-job training that connects to well-paying jobs, and a lack of critical social supports.
Pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs can provide the opportunities this population needs to succeed, but these programs are often inaccessible to those who do not have access through current educators or employers.
Community-based organizations (CBOs) that focus on young adults can provide the needed pathway into these programs by conducting outreach and recruitment to engage young adults in pre-apprenticeship programs, preparing youth to succeed in pre-apprenticeship programs, developing and operating pre-apprenticeship programs, and providing supports to young adults in pre-apprenticeship to apprenticeship pathways so that they succeed.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2019
- Organizational Author(s): Jobs for the Future
- Posted by: Youth Connections TA 1
- Posted in: Youth Connections