Upcoming NGA Events: (Please note that further details and information about other events can be found on the COP calendar)
- AAI Sector Specific Calls:
- Throughout June, AAI Grantees are invited to join in four peer discussions focused on sector-specific needs, challenges, and solutions. Please register for and join as many calls as you have interest. These discussions will offer grantees working in similar industries to learn from each other about how they are adjusting in response to current events. The goal is that these conversations will ultimately lead to more productive and informed conversations with employers and improve outcomes for apprentices.
- IT Sector: Tuesday, June 16 at 3pm EST
- Dial-in: 877-853-5257; Conference ID: 592 242 3488
- Advanced Manufacturing Sector: Thursday, June 18 at 3pm EST
- Dial-in: 877-853-5257; Conference ID: 592 242 3488
- Health Care Sector: Tuesday, June 23 at 3pm EST
- Dial-in: 877-853-5257; Conference ID: 592 242 3488
- Construction/Traditional Trades: Thursday, June 25 at 3pm EST
- Dial-in: 877-853-5257; Conference ID: 592 242 3488
- IT Sector: Tuesday, June 16 at 3pm EST
- Throughout June, AAI Grantees are invited to join in four peer discussions focused on sector-specific needs, challenges, and solutions. Please register for and join as many calls as you have interest. These discussions will offer grantees working in similar industries to learn from each other about how they are adjusting in response to current events. The goal is that these conversations will ultimately lead to more productive and informed conversations with employers and improve outcomes for apprentices.
- Webinar on Grant Closeout: Tuesday, June 30 from 3-4pm
- This Closeout presentation will review the reason and framework under which the closeout process has been established. It will identify the different elements of a closeout package and the closeout process timeline for submission. Lastly, we will highlight several areas that may impact an organization’s ability to successfully navigate the closeout process.
- Register here; Meeting ID: 161 413 8082; Meeting Password: MvBtTVM*339
- This Closeout presentation will review the reason and framework under which the closeout process has been established. It will identify the different elements of a closeout package and the closeout process timeline for submission. Lastly, we will highlight several areas that may impact an organization’s ability to successfully navigate the closeout process.
Apprenticeship Resources focused on Equity:
- ANEW webinar series: Registration is now open for the ANEW AOP “Diversity and Inclusion Summit Virtual Workshop Series,” which runs through June 9th. The focus of the series is to encourage industry partners to work together to create a more inclusive workplace and to commit to these practices, ensuring communication from the top down and bottom up. For more info and to register, please visit here. Recordings of past webinars – shared with the AAI cohort with approval of organizer – include:
- Microaggression: Bigger Than it Sounds, presented by Tali Lavarry
- Bystander Intervention, presented by Dr. Kimberly Harden
- Second Mission: Battle Mind to Home Mind – Presented by Rachel Roberts and Kim Pham
- Intersectionality, presented by Morgan Mentzer
- NAPE webinar: Join NAPE on Thursday, June 11 for a webinar titled “Let’s Talk: Embodying our Equity Principles.” The webinar will focus on the importance of trust, community, and relationship building in order to authentically support the students and families most impacted by COVID-19. Panelists will be sharing ways to internally embody our equity principles and tangible steps we can all take to create an equitable future.
- Connecting Apprenticeships to the Young People Who Need Them Most: The Role of Community-Based Organizations: This JFF resource documents how community-based organizations (CBOs) that serve young adults can learn from other CBOs that have successfully connected underrepresented populations, such as at-risk youth, to Registered Apprenticeships.
Apprenticeship in the News:
- DLI Highlights Resources Available to Montana Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 (Valley Journal): The Montana Department of Labor and Industry is highlighting state resources available for Montana business that have been impacted by COVID-19, including the Montana Registered Apprenticeship Program, among others.
- Grambling State Student Earns JPMorgan Chase Apprenticeship (The News Star): Jordan Williams has been selected as an apprentice in JPMorgan Chases’ Advancing Black Pathways initiative. Through Advancing Black Pathways, JPMorgan Chase is working to improve educational opportunities and job readiness for black students.
- ‘It is my truth’: Portland Native Share Her Story, Need for Allies in the Fight for Equality (KGW): Donna Hammond, shares her truth, as one of the first women and one of the only black apprentices accepted into the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers 48 apprenticeship program back in 1978.
- 3 Unions Are Recruiting Apprentices in the Hudson Valley (com): The carpenters, electricians, and boilermakers unions are running recruitment drives until spring of 2021.
- ProEquities Launches Financial Advisor Apprenticeship Program (FA-Mag.com): ProEquities has launched GEN Next Academy, an apprenticeship program for new advisors seeking experience, in which the program helps advisors new to the financial industry join an established office, while providing senior advisors with assistants they can train and mentor to support them.
- 30% of College Grads may Change Career Path due to COVID-19; 40% Reconsidering College Degree and Redefining the “Gap Year” (Monterey County Weekly): Data from a survey conducted by RemoteInternships shows that students are taking career development into their own hands by leveraging both old and new models of education – the historical model of the apprenticeship/internship as well as modern online learning alternatives.
