WSI – Apprenticeship & Pre-Apprenticeship

One of the biggest workforce challenges we face as a country is how to meet the growing demands for home care workers.

As one of our nation’s strongest training models, apprenticeship provides individuals the unique opportunity to work and develop their skills at the same time through a mix of paid on-the-job training and classroom instruction.

This report details the dynamics and challenges of the residential construction industry and provides a profile of the Workers Defense Project, a non-profit and membership-based organization based in Austin, Texas that seeks to provide low-wage workers, particularly those in the construction industry, with resources to improve their working and living conditions.

This resource provides an overview of residential construction work in the United States including information about the demographics of workers in the industry, the size of the workforce, wages and benefits, and working conditions.

This publication shares research from site visits conducted to construction pre-apprenticeship programs in Baltimore, Hartford, Milwaukee, and Portland, Oregon.

This publication shares research from interviews with leaders from 25 promising and innovative pre-apprenticeship programs from across the country.

This document is a profile of a construction pre-apprenticeship program and provides information about the program’s history, training design and curriculum, funding, partners and industry engagement.

This document is a profile of a construction pre-apprenticeship program and provides information about the program’s history, training design and curriculum, funding, partners and industry engagement.

This document is a profile of a construction pre-apprenticeship program and provides information about the program’s history, training design and curriculum, funding, partners and industry engagement.