Establish Competency-Based and Hybrid Apprenticeship
This self-paced, online training course will help you plan, design, and implement a hybrid or competency-based Registered Apprenticeship. It will help get your program started and walk through considerations to keep it successful once launched.…
Choose Your Apprenticeship Approach
In this self-paced, online training course, you will decide whether to design your Registered Apprenticeship with an approach that advances apprentices based on their time learning, competencies learned, or a combination of the two. In…
Podcast | The Impact Opportunity of Career Navigation Technology in the Workforce System
JFFLabs joins the NAWB for an in-depth look at the potential of the workforce system to drive innovation in the career navigation technology market and provide workers with more opportunities for economic advancement. Listen to…
Dual Enrollment for Students from Special Populations
Interest in dual enrollment is rising in California and nationwide, but students from special populations—including English learners, students with disabilities, foster youth, and young people experiencing homelessness—are too often left on the sidelines. This report…
Providing Support for Community Colleges Now, and a Lever for Transformative Change
With JFF’s support of implementations of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate program, participating community colleges demonstrated that a competency-based curriculum could successfully help low-credentialed adults advance in the IT sector. With JFF’s support of…
Accelerated and Efficient Pathways to Postsecondary Credentials With Labor Market Value
JFF calls on states to build accelerated and efficient pathways that provide all learners, especially members of underserved and underrepresented populations, with opportunities to acquire skills and credentials that are valued in the labor market.…
Nonprofits Offer a Road Map for Colleges Implementing the Google IT Certificate Program
This brief offers a look at actionable strategies developed by nonprofit organizations that community colleges can follow to increase learner retention, completion, and job placement rates through short-term and online workforce training models. This brief…
Expansion of Quality Jobs
JFF calls on states to encourage employers to create quality jobs—meaning jobs that offer more than a steady paycheck and basic benefits like health insurance. Employers must also adopt more equitable and inclusive talent practices…
Inclusive Approach to Economic Development
JFF calls on states to build diversified and resilient regional economies by establishing inclusive approaches to economic development that are specifically designed to benefit vulnerable, disadvantaged communities. This brief is part of an 11-part series,…