Coastal Plains RESA

Insuring a well educated and highly skilled workforce

What is YAP?

Youth Apprenticeship was initiated in Georgia to insure a well educated and highly skilled workforce. It is designed to bring together the components necessary for a successful career. Its key components include:

• school-based learning

• work-based learning

• connecting activities

Youth Apprenticeship provides an opportunity for juniors and seniors to start preparing for a career while still in high school. YAP consists of:

• a sequence of courses that develops each student's academic and occupational competencies
• on-the-job learning guided by a skilled work-based mentor
• skill development based on competency standards developed by industry and labor

Through Youth Apprenticeship students are able to:

• earn wages while learning from skilled professionals
• increase career options and future employability
• strengthen academic skills
• experience the connection between education and real-life work skills
• earn post-secondary credit while in high school
• experience potential careers in the workplace