Work-based learning is a driver of equity: it provides opportunities to build social capital, gain insight into navigating workplace dynamics, and earn compensation while developing skills aligned to a career of interest.
NETWORK MEMBER RESOURCES
Hawai’i’s Employer Engagement Guide helps education and industry leaders better collaborate by outlining what resources employers need to provide to support different experiences along the work-based learning continuum. You can filter by where the activity falls on the continuum (awareness, exploration, preparation, or training), required time commitment, recommended level of staffing, and suggested location.
JFF RESOURCES
This FAQ for employers answers programmatic as well as liability questions employers often have about starting a work-based learning program.
The Business Case for Work-Based Learning
This handout, meant to support initial stakeholder conversations, summarizes how employers benefit from engaging in work-based learning.
System Navigator Questionnaire
This System Navigator Questionnaire is a great for helping employers and other partners situate themselves in the work-based learning ecosystem and define some initial steps toward more successful programming.
How Can We Make Youth Apprenticeship A Winning Proposition? Look To Youth Sports
Apprenticeships are not a new tool and there are great examples of analogous programs that youth currently participate in. Read about one that has implications for a sector-based approach to work-based learning in How Can We Make Youth Apprenticeship A Winning Proposition? Look To Youth Sports.
PARTNER RESOURCES
Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship Resource Repository
New America's Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship Resource Repository curates resources from Advance CTE, CareerWise Colorado, Education Strategy Group, JFF, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE), and the National Governors Association.