JFF's Framework for a High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship Program: Opportunity Youth
This pre-apprenticeship framework outlines strategies and promising practices for developing high-quality programs that serve opportunity youth participants. Acknowledgments We would like to thank the U.S. Department of Labor for providing the funding to support this…
Bringing Off-Track Youth Into the Center of High School Reform: Lessons and Tools from Leading Communities
Bringing Off-Track Youth Into the Center of High School Reform: Lessons and Tools from Leading Communities Leaders in high school policy and practice confront the dual challenge of significantly improving their graduation rates while simultaneously…
Dollars and Sense: How "Career First" Programs Like Year Up Benefit Youth and Employers
Dollars and Sense: How "Career First" Programs Like Year Up Benefit Youth and Employers Despite earning a high school diploma or GED, millions of young people across the United States are stuck. Unable to continue…
Supporting Working Parents Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do — It’s a Business Imperative. We Have Bold Strategies to Help Companies
Seven ways businesses can ease their employees’ caregiving burdens during (and after) the COVID-19 crisis to retain talent and stay competitive.
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…
Three Ways Federal Policymakers Can Transform CTE to Benefit Learners, Workers, and Employers
Support for career and technical education is growing, and federal policymakers must maintain that momentum, because CTE can play a key role in efforts to build an equitable economic recovery.
The Technology We Need to Respond to the Inequitable Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color
There is an opportunity for technology to make a tangible social impact amidst the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.