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For nearly 40 years, we have brought together local leaders, practitioners and organizations to prepare youth for the future.
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Workforce Ready
An Employer’s Guide to Youth and Adult Registered Apprenticeships Youth and adult apprenticeships offer employers a powerful workforce development strategy to cultivate the next generation of skilled workers while addressing current and future workforce needs. This guide is designed to help employers understand the fundamentals of apprenticeship programs and the...
How A Chronic Illness Impacted My Success At My First Job
While having a chronic illness creates additional levels of stress for employees and responsibilities for employers, it also creates unique opportunities to connect with coworkers and customers. Explore this story of resilience as New Ways to Work spotlights Oliver Peyser-Thomas—a high school senior in Columbus, GA who battles Type 1...
How To Help As Ice-Raids in LA Damage A Generation
Dear Friends,These last six months have seen an unparalleled attack on our mission to improve the quality of life for youth and young adults throughout California. From the banning of diversity, equity and inclusion policies at the federal level, to the defunding of major educational and workforce initiatives, to the...
From Greenhouse Trainee to Agripreneur: How Soilless Farming and CSS Farms Laid the Foundation for Neso Farms
Being a student agripreneur means learning to juggle lecture halls with planting beds. In 2024, I found myself waking at dawn to tend nutrient solutions and checking textbooks by moonlight. I still picture the day I stood in a sudden downpour, water cascading over me while I adjusted drip lines wet,...
What's New
A New Year. A New Ways.
A Letter From Our President
We welcome 2021 as a year of hope and rebuilding. While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate many communities and families, we must continue to advocate for and rebuild our social institutions of education, work and social well-being.
I am proud to join the New Ways to Work team as President and Executive Director. As we enter 2021, New Ways to Work has revised its vision, mission and value statements to reflect our dedication to the field of youth workforce development.
Current Initiatives
Check Out Our Latest Toolkits!
Check out the four Work-Based Learning Toolkits we have recently completed, all of which support early workplace exposures, explain quality work-based learning and the career development continuum, describe work readiness/professional skill standards, and provide definitions of the full range of WBL options. Each toolkit includes support materials, tip sheets, fact sheets and implementation tools. To learn more, or to have us tailor a toolkit for your organization, just give us a call at 707-824-4000 x22.