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Work-Based Learning in YouthBuild
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Connecting Opportunity Youth and Employers through Work-Based Learning incorporates research and best practices informed by YouthBuild USA’s YouthBuild High-Demand Career Pathways Initiative prior to 2020.
The paper embeds resources throughout the paper that demonstrate how adjustments for virtual learning and working can be implemented within programs. The paper’s key areas of focus include:
- Opportunity youth, 21st century skills, and their role in the YouthBuild model;
- Work-based learning definitions, key elements, continuum, and common components;
- Promising strategies, common standards, and recommendations from YouthBuild programs to establish effective work-based learning opportunities; and
- Benefits seen from work-based learning experiences.
Related Resources
- WIOA Youth Program and Work Activities
- What Makes a Work Experience Work? (Webinar)
- Paid and Unpaid Work Experience Resources
- Apprenticeship Resource Page
- Registered Apprenticeship and On-the-Job Training: Providing Work-Based Learning Opportunities
- WIOA: Investments in Youth Work Experiences
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- Resource Publication Date: 2020
- Author(s): YouthBuild USA
- Posted by: Lisa Reddy
- Posted in: YouthBuild