Embedding Equity in Your Registered Apprenticeship: Strategies to Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in RA

Embedding Equity in Your Registered Apprenticeship: Strategies to Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in RA

Implementing equity in Registered Apprenticeship programs is challenging. It takes vulnerability to have difficult conversations and make the organizational change necessary to support the impact stated within your organizational “Commitment to Diversity.” This work can be messy, and we learn through missteps and challenges.

For Registered Apprenticeship to achieve its promise as a driver of workforce equity, apprentices themselves must be at the center of program design with the strong support of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices.

This National Apprenticeship Week, participants joined JFF’s conversation with a Registered Apprenticeship employer, a community partner, and an apprentice to learn about the journey of implementing DEIA practices in Registered Apprenticeship, including:
How to embed practices that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship programs, how partnerships can provide the support and expertise in implementing DEIA practices, and how these changes ultimately impact the apprentice experience.

Participants learned more about JFF’s Program Design Framework for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Registered Apprenticeship. This webinar offered promising practices to advance equity and access for all workers and learners.

Women in Apprenticeship Summit 2022

Women in Apprenticeship Summit 2022

Houston Community College - Gulf Coast Region Apprenticeship Hub. HCC will host the Women in Apprenticeship Summit to mark the 85th Anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act and National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) during the week of November 14-20, 2022.

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Using the Equitable Apprenticeship Toolkit in Adult Education

Using the Equitable Apprenticeship Toolkit in Adult Education

The Equitable Apprenticeship Toolkit is a resource intended to help those designing and running pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs to intentionally encourage and support the inclusion of apprentices who reflect the full diversity of our communities.

In this webinar, participants learned what is included in the toolkit, some examples of its applications in adult education settings, and how it could be a resource.

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Year Two: Where We've Been And Where We Are Going!

Year Two: Where We've Been and Where We Are Going!

Joint event where participants heard from all four Registered Apprenticeship Technical Assistance Centers about the work they have completed over the past year. The Centers also talked about the next year of work and how they planned to support Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the next year!