[ONLINE] – OFFICE HOURS: Establishing Partnerships with Local Workforce Development Boards

Join other youth apprenticeship partners in an upcoming interactive and virtual office hour session where JFF will lead a conversation about establishing partnerships between youth apprenticeship programs and local workforce development boards (LWDBs). LWDBs can be an important resource in the implementation, expansion, and sustainability of a youth apprenticeship program, but many programs do not know how to approach or work with them. Our discussion will focus on how youth apprenticeship programs can leverage a LWDB partnership to provide or access case management support, labor market information access, local and state advocacy, and employer, post-secondary, and training provider connections, as well as fiscally in utilizing Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), grant, and other funding resources.

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Led by New America, the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to assist innovative organizations around the country in developing robust youth apprenticeship programs that are scaled and replicated to serve students, employers and communities alike. PAYA is comprised of eight National Partner organizations: Advance CTE, CareerWise Colorado, Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship, Education Strategy Group, JFF, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, and the National Governors Association. PAYA is supported by funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Ballmer Group, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Joyce Foundation, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, the Siemens Foundation, and the Smidt Foundation.