How the Center Can Help You

Finding the talent to keep your business running is hard. We’ll show you how job-based training and education can deliver the return on investment you need. If you set up an apprenticeship program, you could lead the way for your company and industry to create access to professional development opportunities that make you and your workers more productive.

We can help you define your workforce needs, identify the positions that require hard-to-find skills, and set training goals. We can also help you develop training standards and register them with your state or the federal government, identify local sources of talent, and establish the local partnerships you’ll need in order to build sustainable programs.

Apprenticeship and work-based learning models can be valuable business services tools while also leading to strong short- and long-term outcomes for jobseekers. Yet, many workforce agencies don’t know how to incorporate apprenticeship into their toolboxes. JFF can guide you through the process to determine how to best add apprenticeship to the services you provide. We can advise you on integration with state funding and credits, activities and performance measures that are allowed under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and other best practices.

Education officials are increasingly recognizing that apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and other forms of work-based learning are effective ways to prepare students for college and careers. JFF can help you find program models that meet your needs and then assist you with efforts to integrate work-based learning into programs of study, build education-industry partnerships, and navigate relevant administrative processes.

Create opportunities to connect people of all backgrounds with living-wage careers. We can help you drive awareness and adoption of apprenticeship and work-based learning to new and growing industries as well as increase awareness of critical considerations that support a variety of workers, including diversity and equity strategies and wraparound supports.