JOHN DUNN ERIC SELEZNOW

Assistant Secretary for Apprenticeship and Worker Training, California Labor and Workforce

Development Agency

Senior Advisor, JFF

APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN HEALTHCARESETTING THE STAGE

P R E S E N T E D B Y

SETTING THE STAGE FOR HIGH-QUALITY WORK-BASED LEARNINGBuilding the California Healthcare Workforce

Eric Seleznow, Senior Advisor, JFF

Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning

October 30, 2018

THANK YOUFOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT

Hi, I’m

ERIC SELEZNOW

Eric M. Seleznow is a senior advisor and directs JFF's Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning. He works to further the organization’s goals of advancing innovative workforce policy and programs. Mr. Seleznow is contributing to the organization’s work on apprenticeship, reentry, and sector strategies.

Senior Advisor

The American labor market is broken. Our rapidly changing economy demands skilled and adaptable workers, but many people lack the education and training employers require. JFF is transforming the workforce and education systems to accelerate economic advancement for all.

JFF designs innovative solutions, scales proven programs, and influences industry action and policymaking to drive the most transformative impact.

CENTER FOR APPRENTICESHIP & WORK-BASED LEARNINGCenter4Apprenticeship.jff.org

FEDERAL INVESTMENTS

• American Apprenticeship Initiative

• State Accelerator grants

• State Expansion grants

• Contracts to Intermediaries

• $150m current DOL FOA

• $160m proposed for 2019

Since 2015, the Federal Government has invested $503m to fund:

WORK-BASED LEARNING STRATEGIES• On-the-Job Training (OJT)• Customized Training• Incumbent Worker Training• Work Experiences and Internships• Transitional Jobs

TYPES OF

• Registered Apprenticeship• Non Registered Apprenticeships• Industry Recognized Apprenticeships (new)• Pre-Apprenticeship

WORK-BASED LEARNING

1. Support entry and advancement in a career track

2. Provide meaningful job tasks that build career skills and knowledge

3. Offer compensation

4. Identify target skills and how gains will be validated

5. Reward skill development

6. Support college entry, persistence, and completion

7. Provide comprehensive student supports

7 PRINCIPLES OF

WORK-BASED LEARNING?WHAT IS

Exposes participants to the world

of work

Strengthens academic learning

Exposes participants to a career

field

Enhances professional

skills

Provides a temporary or permanent

job

APPRENTICESHIP: QUALITY, RIGOR, STANDARDS• Paid employment with wage increases commensurate with skill gains• Structured on-the-job learning supervised by a qualified mentor, and typically a

year or more• Related training and instruction that complements on-the-job learning• Ongoing assessment of skills development• Culminating in a recognized postsecondary credential

BENEFITS TO PARTICIPANTS

BENEFITS OF WORK-BASED LEARNING

• Develop professional and career-track skills

• Gain real-work work experience

• Earn postsecondary credentials that match employer expectations and needs

BENEFITS TO EMPLOYERS

BENEFITS OF WORK-BASED LEARNING

• Employees have the information and skills needed to make informed job

and long-term career choices

• Reduced turnover – excellent

retention

• Greater productivity

• Lower costs

WORK-BASED COURSES

Key features:

• Integrates the classroom and workplace by formalizing instruction that happens during work• Reflects the unique production needs of a company because teaching happens on the job• Fulfills program requirements for a community college certificate or degree• See www.jff.org/workbasedcourses

An innovative way to bring college to the production line by using the job as a learning lab

V I S I T U S T O D A Y A T J F F. O R G

THANK YOU!Center4Apprenticeship.jff.org

Hi, I’m

JOHN DUNNAssistant Secretary for Apprenticeship and Worker Training,

California Labor and Workforce Development Agency

SETTING THE STAGE: CALIFORNIA

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

CA Future Health

Workforce

LWDA

DAS

CWDB

DCAETP

CCCCO

ROCP

APRIL 2018’S WORKFORCE EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY FOR HEALTHCARE SYMPOSIUM

v The building trades ensure adequate workforce pipelines by maintaining a ration of one apprentice for every two journeyworkers turning sixty-one on a given year.

v Whether such a system could take hold in health is yet to be determined.

v Statutory, regulatory, and cultural obstacles must be surmounted.

SPECIFIC CHALLENGES

Licensure

Fragmented Funding Process

Program Inflexibility

Paucity of Instructors

Additional Rural Obstacles

Cultural Resistance

NEXT STEPS

DAS work to eliminate statutory & regulatory barriers

Rebrand apprenticeship

Expand multi-employer partnerships & form regional consortia

AB 2105 legislative report

Future Health Workforce Commission's strategic plan