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Highlights

• Success Story: Shasta College has partnered with Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) to give students real world training out in the woods, running the equipment, logging, and shipping their harvest
• Explore JFF’s National Innovation Hub for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Webinar
• During CCCAOE, the Apprenticeship Support Network team hosted a facilitated discussion on the impact of the Great Resignation on the workforce and education system
• The California Community College Chancellor’s Office has announced the official quarterly release of funds for the California Apprenticeship Initiative: New and Innovative Grant Program Apprenticeship and Pre-apprenticeship Request for Applications (RFA).
• Supporting Community College Delivery of Apprenticeships 
• Building and Growing Apprenticeship with Equity in Mind

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• Success Story: Free Programs by West LA College and West Coast Dental Creating Jobs
• Our first webinar of the year, Upskilling and Backfilling: The Role of Incumbent Worker
• For Smart Companies, Upskilling Is the Perfect Antidote to the Great Resignation
• Community Colleges and CTE: Reengaging and Preparing Learners for the Post-Pandemic Economy 
• Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program 
• Incumbent Worker Training Expert Dialogue 
• It’s Incumbent on U.S.: Leveraging federal policy to maximize investment in incumbent worker training and business’ pipeline development

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• Success Story: YMCA Early Educator Apprentice Program
• Apprenticeships: Strategies and Issues for High Road Training Partnerships (HRTP)
• Workforce Development Should Focus More on Fixing Work
• Diverse Partners Power Transformational Change
• California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Workforce and Economic Development Division Monthly Webinar (WEDD) November 2021 Webinar
• Promising Approaches for Connecting Opportunity Youth to Registered Apprenticeships
• Meeting the Moment: Dallas College’s Health Care Apprenticeships
• Join us for our first Webinar of the year
• Funding Opportunity: The Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) are soliciting proposals
• We have a new website!

Highlights

• Success Story: Palomar College Military Leadership Apprenticeship Program
• Don’t Leave Talent on the Table: How to Diversify Your Manufacturing Workforce
• Reimagining Adult Education: CAEP Summit 2021
• California Apprenticeship Initiative FY 21-22 New and Innovative Grant Funding Opportunity (UPDATE)
• October 2021 WEDD Webinar
• Building and Growing Apprenticeship with Equity in Mind: An Equitable Apprenticeships Toolkit
• The Toward Sustainability and Scale: A Playbook for California Apprenticeship Stakeholders and Champions
• Youth Apprenticeship in Action: Principles in Practice
• California Apprenticeship Initiative Application Deadline
• Now Live: Grow Apprenticeship California Website

Highlights

• Union and health care providers join to offer training to fill worker gaps in California health care
• In the August WEDD Webinar, Vice Chancellor Sheneui Weber shared insightful content on the California workforce
• Building and Growing Apprenticeship with Equity in Mind: An Equitable Apprenticeships Toolkit
• Reimagining Adult Education: California Adult Education Program (CAEP) Summit 2021

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• Join Us On LinkedIn!
• Impactful Program Outcome Strategies: Building Partnerships Through Community Engagement
• The June WEDD Monthly webinar hosted by the Chancellor’s Office highlighted several California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) pre-apprenticeship programs
• How Can We Make Youth Apprenticeship A Winning Proposition? Look To Youth Sports
• The California Workforce Association will be hosting Meeting of the Minds 2021- Rising to the Challenge

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• Join Us On LinkedIn!
• Advancing Food Access and Support for Students Across CA Higher Education Across California
• WEDD Monthly Webinar Series: State Funding Update
• America’s Opportunity Youth Deserve an Equitable Economic Recovery
• Funding Opportunity: California Apprenticeship Initiative High Road Training Partnership Grant

Highlights

• Accelerating Public Sector Apprenticeships 
• Grow Apprenticeship California Spring Learning Lab 2021
• The Toward Sustainability and Scale: A Playbook for California Apprenticeship Stakeholders and Champions 
• JFF Horizons June 15-16, 2021

Highlights

• The Future of Student Basic Needs: A Conversation with Higher Education State Leaders Webinar
• The March webinar focused on how the expansion of pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships could contribute to rapid up-skilling and re-employment
• Opening Doors to Apprenticeship for English Language Learners
• Accelerating Public Sector Apprenticeships

Highlights

• Who’s at Your Table? Building Sustainable Apprenticeship Programs by Expanding Partnership Reach 
• Race and Registered Apprenticeship: RA’s Role in Driving Equity
• Advancing Opportunities for Women through Apprenticeship
• Spring Learning Lab, April 12-16, 2021

Highlights

• New Guidance on Attendance Accounting for Apprenticeship Related and Supplemental Instruction (RSI)
• Boosting California’s Recovery through Equitable Apprenticeship
• Biden Administration to Take Steps to Bolster Registered Apprenticeships
• State of California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Apprenticeship Standards Quarterly Report

Highlights

• Policy Matters: Reflections on the Past and Future of Apprenticeship
• Opportunities and Obstacles in California Apprenticeship
• How Apprenticeship Programs for Opportunity Youth Stay Resilient Through the COVID-19 Recession
• The first quarter Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (IACA) meeting will be hosted via teleconference February 8-9, 2021