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Creating Apprenticeship Friendly LBS Services:  Apprenticeship and Understanding the Market Opportunity (Module #1)

Laubach Literacy Ontario (LLO) has developed a series of resources to support LBS agencies in increasing their capacity to support apprenticeship – with the goal of creating apprenticeship-friendly LBS services. There are four modules:

• Module 1: Apprenticeship and LBS – Understanding the Market Opportunity
• Module 2: Preparing a Learner for Apprenticeship
• Module 3: LBS and Apprenticeship Support
• Module 4: Supporting Apprentices to Become Journeypersons

• Describe the apprenticeship system
• Express reasons why LBS agencies could benefit from addressing apprenticeship as a goal path
• Learn why LBS is a good fit for apprentices
• Describe factors that are impacting the labour market and increasing the need for apprentices
• Perform a market analysis in your community
• Analyze the skills needs of the growing apprenticeship talent pool
• Identify apprenticeship stakeholders in your community
• Recognize how to work with apprenticeship stakeholders in your community
• State the required criteria for an LBS agency to serve the apprenticeship goal path
• Describe your agency’s current strengths related to serving the apprenticeship goal path
• Evaluate if increasing your involvement in apprenticeship is a good fit for your agency
• Prepare your staff to develop a service for learners on the apprenticeship goal path
• Express one or more areas of development for your agency to increase its ability to respond to the needs of the apprenticeship goal path
• Describe apprenticeship’s connection with the Skills for Success framework