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Center Presents on Efforts to Advance Public Transportation Apprenticeship at DOL Meeting

Posted April 2016

April 19 -21, Xinge Wang, Deputy Director and Tia Brown, Program Manager attended the American Apprenticeship Initiative National Meeting held in Washington, DC. Tia Brown participated in the Industry Specific Opportunities for Apprenticeship Expansion panel on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. She was joined by Anne Whetmore the AAI Grant Apprenticeship Specialist, a South Seattle Community College and Dr. John Gaal Director of Training and Workforce Development for the St. Louis - Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council. This panel was an open discussion of innovations and challenges where Tia Brown discussed mentorship, apprenticeship facilitation and implementation, conversion of apprenticeships into hybrid models, and the Center’s Train-the-Trainer.

For more information on the American Apprenticeship Initiative, please download the Center’s informational poster or contact Program Manager Tia Brown at tbrown@transportcenter.org.