Using Government Procurement to Drive Equity in Registered Apprenticeship: A Guide for Employers and Local Policymakers
Registered Apprenticeship programs provide an opportunity to magnify equity in the connection between public investment and job creation. By utilizing already existing government procurement investments, Registered Apprenticeship is poised to drive more diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workforce, as highlighted throughout this brief.
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Checklist: Targeted Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention Strategies for Registered Apprenticeship Programs
This tool provides an easy-to-use checklist of outreach, recruitment, and retention strategies that RA programs can take when the representation of an underrepresented population in their program falls below the goal they adopted for that population in their Affirmative Action Program.
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Creating an Inclusive Apprenticeship Environment Through Best Practices in Disability Identification and Disclosure
This brief discusses disability disclosure and self-identification that apprenticeship sponsors need to know.
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Community Workforce Agreements to Provide Registered Apprenticeship Opportunities
This fact sheet provides an overview of Registered Apprenticeships and Community Workforce Agreements, including strategies, best practices, and resources for expanding programs in these areas.
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State Youth Labor Law and Workers’ Compensation Statute Table
This table is a comprehensive resource that describes the child labor laws and workers’ compensation statutes for each state. The information within this table is intended to help mitigate liability concerns related to youth employment.
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Taking your First Step Supporting Job Seekers through Registered Apprenticeship: A Guide for Community Based Organizations
This factsheet highlights the existing need for apprenticeship programs provided by Latinx serving organizations, and also includes information/data points garnered from the UnidosUS focus groups implemented in January 2022. These data points in conjunction with those compiled from the landscape analysis survey make up the bulk of the affiliate/CBO fact sheet.
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The Benefits of Apprenticeship for UnidosUS Employer Partners
This fact sheet shares reasons why Registered Apprenticeships are a recognized sustainable solution to increase equitable hiring of skilled workers from diverse backgrounds.
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Opportunity Zones and Registered Apprenticeship
This fact sheet provides an overview of Registered Apprenticeships in Opportunity Zones, including strategies, best practices, and resources for expanding programs in these areas.
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Partnering With Purpose: Building Partnerships to Drive Equitable Registered Apprenticeships
Partnerships are the key to building well-run, equitable apprenticeships that prepare workers of all ages for rewarding careers. Learn how to forge and sustain these critical collaborations from successful partnership stakeholders in this virtual webinar recording.
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How Apprenticeship Programs in Construction Trades Can Establish Family-Friendly Policies
Information and best practices for how construction apprenticeship programs can offer pregnancy accommodations and other family-friendly policies.
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5 Equal Employment Opportunity Steps to Take When Setting Up a Registered Apprenticeship Program
This tool documents the steps Registered Apprenticeship sponsors need to take under the Apprenticeship Equal Employment Opportunity regulations, 29 CFR part 30.
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Using Universal Design for Learning for Inclusive Apprenticeships
This brief provides an overview of how applying Universal Design for Learning to Registered Apprenticeships can result in a more welcoming environment that better includes people with disabilities and others with varied learning needs and preferences.
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An Untapped Opportunity: Registered Apprenticeship at Minority Serving Institutions
This webinar highlighted existing RA programs at MSIs and discussed their journey to starting a program and how they continue to sustain it. This webinar also covered how to get technical support in starting a program from JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning.
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Embedding Equity in Your Registered Apprenticeship: Strategies to Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in RA
In this webinar, JFF hosted a conversation with a Registered Apprenticeship employer, a community partner, and an apprentice to learn about the journey of implementing DEIA practices in Registered Apprenticeship.
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Young Adults in Registered Apprenticeship
Young adults are invaluable members of our labor market and bring critical talent, capacity, skill, and innovation to the workforce. However, many young adults—especially those ages 16-24 from low-income communities—face significant barriers in the labor market. This factsheet provides resources, key metrics, and more information about how Registered Apprenticeship can support young adults.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Mentorship for Registered Apprenticeship
This self-paced course of eight 20-minute modules is ideal for mentors in Registered Apprenticeship. After completing this course, you will be able to define what is an effective mentor and integrate the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) framework into your mentorship practice.
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JFF's Program Framework for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship
This framework offers field-informed program design elements and considerations for building systems, processes, partnerships, and practices that can drive diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship programs.
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The Current State of Diversity and Equity in U.S. Apprenticeships For Young People
This analysis of 2010-2020 Registered Apprenticeship data by Jobs for the Future showed a significant increase in apprenticeship for 16- to 24-year-olds, but troubling disparities in participation and outcomes by race and gender.
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An Untapped Opportunity: Registered Apprenticeship at Minority Serving Institutions
This landscape analysis shows how Minority-Serving Institutions are currently engaging with Registered Apprenticeship and why it may be beneficial for them to embrace RA-based learning programs.
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Diversify your Talent Pipeline with Youth Apprenticeship
This video series shares the stories of young apprentices from the Apprenticeship School, showcasing how adoption and expansion of equitable RA program design can significantly impact outcomes for youth.
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New Business Pledge Urges Employers to Increase Equity and Representation in U.S. Apprenticeship and Hiring Practices
JFF mobilizes employers to take proactive steps to remove barriers that limit access to apprenticeship.
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Expanding DEIA Programs through Apprenticeship
This publication makes the case for using Registered Apprenticeship to diversify an employer's talent pipeline and sets the stage for moving our work forward.
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An Introduction to Registered Apprenticeship in the United States
This publication is an entry level tool for employers entering into registered apprenticeship. It provides a foundation of how Pre-Apprenticeship and Youth Apprenticeship can expand DEIA.
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It's Time to Close Apprenticeship's Long Overlooked Equity Gaps
OpEd exploring the state of DEIA in RA and the opportunities to drive change. Co-Authored by Eric Seleznow and Latitia McCane.
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How Modern Day School Segregation Leads to Occupational Segregation
This publication frames current challenges of school segregation and their later implications for our workforce and occupational segregation, and presents Youth Apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship as a critical tools that can help build a more equitable education system and workforce.
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A Brief History of Apprenticeship
This publication contextualizes DEIA in the history of RA. It offers a frame to understand some of the historic drivers of the RA ecosystem as well as emerging opportunities and drivers of change to effectively diversify RA.
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A Closer Look at America's Occupational Segregation
This publication is a partner piece to the Horizon's Conference Panel discussion which explored Occupational Segregation in RA, and frames occupational segregation in our broader workforce and articulates how these patterns are replicated and, at times amplified, in the registered apprenticeship ecosystem.
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How Registered Apprenticeship Led Me From Black History to Black Opportunity
A true commitment to DEIA from employers and partners, with JFF’s help, can make apprenticeship live up to its promise.
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Suggested Additions to Employer Acceptance Agreement Template (Appendix E to Registered Apprenticeship Standards)
The U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Apprenticeship (OA) provides an Employer Acceptance Agreement (EAA) template for the sponsor and participating employers to use.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Group Sponsors’ Obligations Under the Apprenticeship Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations
In a group sponsorship, apprentices work for participating employers rather than for the sponsor itself. These FAQs address a group sponsor’s obligations to ensure that its apprenticeship program complies with equal employment opportunity regulations.
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Responses to Potential Sponsors’ Concerns About Equal Employment Opportunity in Apprenticeship
These talking points address many of the questions and concerns organizations have about about equal employment opportunity regulations when registering an apprenticeship program.
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What We Know About Work-Based Learning And Apprenticeship For Individuals With Disabilities In Hospitality
This brief report overviews benefits and opportunities surrounding utilizing Registered Apprenticeship as a promising career strategy for workers with disabilities in the hospitality sector.
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Talking Points: How Diverse and Inclusive Apprenticeships Address Employer Needs
This tool is designed to guide discussions around the value of diversity as employers work to bring apprenticeships to their workforce, and is organized by employers’ needs, questions marketing staff can pose, facts, and support available to employers as they take steps to build and retain skilled and diverse staff.
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Diversity in Apprenticeship is a Building Block of Coleman Spohn Corp.
Coleman Spohn Corp. President Lonnie Coleman explains why a diverse apprenticeship program is a key component for his business.
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Treehouse Uses Apprenticeship to Grow Diversity in Tech
Treehouse has developed a business model from placing underrepresented workers into tech apprenticeships.
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Reflecting Community Composition with Mercy Health + Saint Joseph Mercy Health System Apprenticeship Program
Talent and workforce leaders at Mercy Health + Saint Joseph Mercy Health System share steps they took to diversify their apprenticeship cohorts to be more reflective of the communities they serve.
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Manufacturing Opportunities for All with Lippert’s Apprenticeship Program
Manufacturer Lippert Components offers a bilingual apprenticeship program to help their team members who are Latinx reach their fullest potential.
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4 Strategies for Incorporating Equity and Diversity in Your Apprenticeship Program
This brief shares 4 approaches businesses are utilizing to increase equity and diversity in their apprenticeship programs.
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JFF Director Myriam Sullivan in “Apprenticeship Helps Women Enter, and Advance in, the Skilled Trades”
JFF Director Myriam Sullivan wrote a profile of the Industrial Manufacturing Technician (IMT) apprenticeship program for a USA Today special report focusing on women in skilled trades.
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Apprenticeship Shaped My Post-Prison Life — Employers Will Benefit from Others Like Me
By working together to offer Registered Apprenticeship programs to individuals who are currently or formerly incarcerated, prisons and employers can give people with criminal records the opportunity for a fresh start while building a pipeline of motivated, dedicated employees.
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Adding a Gender Lens to Non-traditional Jobs Training Programs
With this toolkit, training programs for nontraditional jobs can learn how to engage and support women and other underrepresented communities as they seek new, high-potential careers.
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For Registered Apprenticeship to Be the Gold Standard Workforce Program, it's Time to Address Equity
This article examines equity across Registered Apprenticeship training models through various research structures, and shares recently released reports published as part of JFF's work in growing apprenticeship for all.
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It’s Been Nearly 3 Decades Since Passage of the ADA—We Need More Career Opportunities for People with Disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been in effect for nearly three decades, but youth and adults with disabilities still lack sufficient career opportunities. A new initiative aims to change that.
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Women in Skilled Manufacturing Apprenticeships & Careers: An Introduction To Equity and Inclusion
The recordings of this 2-day virtual institute provide manufacturing industry leaders and stakeholders with a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss best practices for hiring, training, and retaining women and help the manufacturing industry build a more robust talent pipeline.
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Creating an Equitable & Future-Focused Manufacturing Workforce with Apprenticeship
Discover how apprenticeship can help your manufacturing business become a more competitive player and an employer of choice for a diverse pool of talented workers from a wide range of backgrounds.
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Growing Opportunities in Manufacturing through Bilingual Upskilling
The bilingual GOAL training program provides opportunities for English Language Learners to progress in advanced manufacturing careers.
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Introduction to Affirmative Action Programs for Registered Apprenticeships
This self-paced online training is the second course in the series that walks you through an assessment of whether your program should develop an Affirmative Action Program, and connects you with the tools needed to implement a successful AAP.
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Debugged: Diversifying IT Through Effective Training Programs
This webinar explores how IT training programs can become more effective, equitable, and aligned with industry needs, and addresses the challenges and potential solutions that IT training programs face in creating effective, equitable programs.
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Transforming IT Training Programs into Successful Career On-Ramps
This brief offers recommendations for IT training providers to strengthen their work and more successfully connect participants to career advancement opportunities, while also laying out key considerations for employers to help minimize barriers to entry and increase equity in the industry.
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What We Know About Equity and Diversity in Apprenticeship
This brief synthesizes and outlines what we know about challenges to achieving equity for underrepresented populations, and introduces several ideas that have proven successful in building connections into apprenticeship through recruitment, preparation, and retention activities.
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5 Initial Steps to Equal Employment Opportunity for Registered Youth and Adult Apprenticeships
This self-paced online training course provides online resources and tools, and explains the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations and how they apply to Registered Apprenticeship (RA) programs.
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This National Apprenticeship Week, Let’s Support Employers in Developing Equitable Apprenticeships
JFF actively seeks out opportunities to work with employers and other stakeholders to design and implement new apprenticeship projects to make training experiences accessible to as many workers and learners as possible.
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Diversifying Apprenticeship: Acknowledging Unconscious Bias to Improve Employee Access
Promoting frontline workers to more senior positions is a great way to improve workforce diversity, but unconscious bias can prevent employees from getting the training they need to advance.
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Together We Can Increase Black Participation in Apprenticeship
JFF and our partners are committed to changing obstacles to Black participation in apprenticeship through intentional, focused actions designed to create apprenticeship opportunities for members of underrepresented populations, specifically women and people of color.
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Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Age: Employers Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the U.S. Registered Apprenticeship System
JFF celebrates the launch of its new national Center of Excellence to Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Registered Apprenticeship through lively roundtable discussions with employers on the importance of DEIA in apprenticeships.
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Growing Equity and Diversity Through Apprenticeship: Business Perspectives
More than 20 leading employers and industry associations share strategies for making apprenticeship programs more accessible to people from underrepresented populations.
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Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
Learn promising practices in building and growing successful apprenticeship programs for opportunity youth.
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A Business Pledge to Increase Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship
This tool allows businesses to join a community of local, state, and national employers and labor partners that believe in removing barriers to increase access and opportunity to underrepresented populations in high-quality Registered Apprenticeships.
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Getting Serious: Apprenticeship Equity Solutions for Employers and Sponsors
This two-day virtual summit showcased employers across the country describe how they’re using apprenticeship to build skilled, diverse workforces.
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Race and Registered Apprenticeship: RA's Role in Driving Equity
In this virtual event, current and former state apprenticeship directors discussed how they are working to expand racial and economic equity in Registered Apprenticeship.
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About JFF
Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the American workforce and education systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. www.jff.org
About JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning
Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the American workforce and education systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. In 2017, JFF launched the Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning (the Center) to spur mainstream adoption of equitable, innovative, and high-quality apprenticeship and work-based learning programs. The Center works to expand apprenticeship and work-based learning programs into new industries and fosters access and success for a broader, more diverse group of workers. Learn more at www.jff.org/center.
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