Join us online to learn about manufacturing apprenticeships on Monday, August 10,
2020, at 2:00pm. Click here to pre-register.
WHAT IS AN APPRENTICESHIP?
Apprenticeships offer students the opportunity to receive paid on-the-job training
and no-cost tuition for apprenticeship related courses. The combination of in-class
and on-the-job learning provides a dynamic environment where students learn relevant
industry skills.
APPRENTICESHIP BENEFITS
- College education without debt
- Paid on-the-job training
- Mentor support
- Directed education
- Industry lead state certified program
The James Irvine Foundation awarded the Inland Empire Consortium $815,000 in support
of the regional LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network, a growing network of community colleges
and high schools, workforce development boards, and industry partners who are committed
to taking a system-wide approach in offering apprenticeship opportunities across our
region's institutions and businesses. The mission is to solve the region's skills
gap by streamlining and delivering high quality registered apprenticeships. Led by
Interim Director of Reg Appr & World-Based Learning Progs, Career & Technical Education,
Charles Henkels, the goals of the project are to:
- Establish a user-focused navigable apprenticeship system for businesses, students, and career-seekers
- Provide access to accredited paid work-based learning opportunities in industry and academia
- Resolve bureaucratic bottlenecks within the workforce and education systems and integrate services to the region's population
Apprenticeship programs lead to higher skills and family supporting wages. Riverside
County is fully on board with this and will continue to strengthen and work closely
with our Community Colleges and the Building Trades," said Jamil Dada, chair of the
Riverside County Workforce Board and vice president of Investment Services at Provident
Bank.
LAUNCH is an acronym that stands for Local Apprenticeships Uniting a Network of Colleges
and High schools. The LAUNCH Network partners with the California Apprenticeship Initiative
and compliments the state's financial investment and recent legislation (AB 1809 and
AB 235). These bills position California for sustained apprenticeship growth by creating
pathways to better integrate apprenticeship education through the community colleges
and to create an interagency committee to work with the Division of Apprenticeship
Standards on structuring and supporting apprenticeship pathways in professions outside
of the building trades.
The LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network was established with the idea that it could provide
a current and ready solution to many of today's hurdles in launching new apprenticeship
programs while also remaining forward-focused in developing a more expansive and accessible
apprenticeship system to young students and to adult workers.