What is Youth Apprenticeship?
Youth Apprenticeship was initiated in Georgia to insure a well educated and highly skilled workforce. It is designed to bring together the components necessary for a successful career:
Education & Experience
Key components:
- school-based learning
- work-based learning
- connecting activities
Using these components, students begin to prepare for a career while still in high school.
Youth Apprenticeship:
- provides paid work experience
- promotes partnership between education and industry
- integrates academic and technical instruction
- provides post-secondary options
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How does Youth Apprenticeship work?
Youth Apprenticeship provides an opportunity for juniors and seniors to start preparing for a career while still in high school. Individual programs of study in the freshman and sophomore years prepare students for a successful apprenticeship.
Youth Apprenticeship consists of:
- a sequence of courses that develops each student's academic and occupational competencies
- on-the-job learning guided by a skilled work-based mentor
- skill development based on competency standards developed by industry and labor
Youth Apprenticeship provides students the opportunity to earn a high school diploma, a post- secondary credential or diploma, and industry certification in their chosen career area.
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How will Youth Apprenticeship benefit students?
Youth Apprenticeship offers students school-based and work-based learning opportunities that are related to the student's career interest area.
Through Youth Apprenticeship, students are able to:
- earn wages while learning from skilled professionals
- increase career options and future employability
- strengthen academic skills
- experience the connection between education and real-life work skills
- earn post-secondary credit while in high school
- experience potential careers in the workplace
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How will Youth Apprenticeship benefit employers?
Youth Apprenticeship enables employers to play an active role in shaping the quality of their future workforce.
Through Youth Apprenticeship, employers are able to:
- increase skill levels of potential workers
- work with educators to develop curriculum based on industry standards
- recruit and screen potential employees
- reduce turnover of entry-level employees through the hiring of Youth Apprenticeship graduates
- improve competitiveness in the international marketplace
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How can I become involved with Youth Apprenticeship?
If you are interested in Youth Apprenticeship for your student(s) or would like to become an industry sponsor, please see your Youth Apprenticeship contact, high school counselor or:
Melissa M. Pyle-Hamilton, B.S., M.B.A.
Work-based Learning Coordinator
(706) 236-1981
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