US Apprenticeship Concepts.

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These concepts stem from the U.S. Vision of Apprenticeship.

• Critical Education and Training Model: Apprenticeship is a critical education and training model for developing 21st century skills to meet the needs of high growth, high demand industries and to support a competitive workforce, which is essential to our nation’s economic growth.
• Talent Development Solution Meeting Business Needs: In a demand-driven workforce system, Federal, state, and local workforce and apprenticeship staff work collaboratively with business and industry, education and training providers, and other key partners to develop workforce solutions to provide workers with the skills businesses need. The apprenticeship system coordinates with industry leaders to define competency models that help shape workforce education. Using these competency models, apprenticeship provides workers with quantifiable skills and portable industry-recognized credentials that meet business needs and requirements.
• Expanded Training Options for Workers: Apprenticeship training opportunities should be routinely integrated into career guidance and career exploration services offered through One-Stop Career Centers, both virtually and as part of staff-assisted services. By better integrating apprenticeship as a critical postsecondary training option, workers and employers will have greater access to expanded training services through the One-Stop Career Centers.
• Integration Strategies and Policies: To ensure that the workforce system consistently integrates apprenticeship in service delivery strategies for businesses and current and future workers, it is critical to develop strategies, policies, and service delivery models that fully integrate apprenticeship as a workforce solution and an education and training option for students and workers accessible through the workforce investment system.
• Broader Human Resource Development System: Workforce system leaders must promote workforce investment policies, including those driving the use of Federal workforce investment system funds, which recognize apprenticeship as a critical component of the greater human resource development system and a valuable workforce education and preparation strategy.