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New America launched the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA), a multi-year, multi-stakeholder initiative to connect, expand, and strengthen the field of youth apprenticeship in October 2018. Since then, with PAYA’s support, partners in communities and states across the U.S. have implemented strategies to start and grow youth apprenticeship programs across a range of industries, including information technology, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, finance, and education. Due to the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 crisis--and the stark inequities the crisis has both revealed and exacerbated--youth apprenticeship is taking on even greater importance as a strategy for promoting a more inclusive economic recovery.
To kick off the next phase of its work, PAYA is hosting a virtual conference, Youth Apprenticeship Summit 2020: Pathways to Inclusive Economic Renewal on October 13-15, 2020. We invite you to join us to:
- Hear from a diverse range of education, workforce, and other stakeholders and learn about the roles they play in developing and implementing high quality, equitable youth apprenticeships opportunities;
- Explore how youth apprenticeship can address persistent learning and labor market disparities caused by systemic racism and exacerbated more recently by COVID-19;
- Learn strategies to ensure the long-term sustainability of inclusive youth apprenticeship programs and systems; and
- Network and co-develop solutions to common programmatic and policy challenges with colleagues from across the growing field of American youth apprenticeship.
