Jun 25, 2026 · 30 min · 14 segments
What if young people could earn a paycheck, build real skills, and start a career – all before finishing school? Youth apprenticeships make it possible, but too few young people can access these…
Laura BergerGuest
Gloria RivieraHostChris GrantGuestNo entities detected.
For listeners who are totally new to this and know next to nothing, can you start us off by just talking us through what youth apprenticeship, that's what we're talking about today, what is that and what makes it different than, say, an internship?
Yeah, so maybe it'll be helpful to start out a little bit about what an apprenticeship is.
And this is a program that combines paid, structured, on-the-job training with classroom learning.
An apprenticeship is something that I think a lot of folks know that has been around for a long time.
So for a youth apprenticeship, it takes that same model, but it starts it earlier while either a young person is a student in high school or sometimes they are high school aged.
Some states have definitions, but really it's just taking this apprenticeship model and designing programs for high school age young people.
For listeners who are totally new to this and know next to nothing, can you start us off by just talking us through what youth apprenticeship, that's what we're talking about today, what is that and what makes it different than, say, an internship?
Yeah, so maybe it'll be helpful to start out a little bit about what an apprenticeship is.
And this is a program that combines paid, structured, on-the-job training with classroom learning.
An apprenticeship is something that I think a lot of folks know that has been around for a long time.
So for a youth apprenticeship, it takes that same model, but it starts it earlier while either a young person is a student in high school or sometimes they are high school aged.
Some states have definitions, but really it's just taking this apprenticeship model and designing programs for high school age young people.
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