Make It in America - Apprenticeships Case Study
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Make it in America (MIIA) grantee, the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments’ (ACOG) grant program, in partnership with the WorkLink Workforce Development Board and their sub-recipients, is complementing its successful training strategy with a unique approach to linking education to work experience: Registered Apprenticeships.
This “earn and learn” model is a formalized, structured training program that combines supervised onsite job training with related technical instruction (typically classroom-based) and is registered with the U.S. Department of Labor or a federally recognized State Apprenticeship Agency. By effectively promoting the apprenticeship model among students and employers, ACOG, WorkLink and their sub-recipients are able to meet the training needs of regional manufacturers at low costs, while providing MIIA participants with the opportunity to receive relevant, usable, hands-on, state-of-the-art training for in-demand jobs in the automotive industry. The purpose of this resource brief is to use ACOG/WorkLink’s experiences and lessons learned to show that apprenticeship can be a viable, successful route to employment for your MIIA participants as well.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2016
- Posted by: Kevin Mauro
- Posted in: H-1B Skills Training