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Learn how Westside Works Can Help You...

  • Attain free or low cost college courses for employee training
  • Achieve your workforce goals
  • Reduce overtime costs and improve ROI
  • Produce new leaders for the 21st Century
  • Select from a fresh pool of eager earn-to-learn job applicants
  • Enhance opportunities for current, reliable, low-level staff
  • Develop highly skilled and more productive employees
  • Contribute to local, economic and community development

About Westside Works

Westside Works, a West Hills Community College initiative, delivers support for employers aspiring to transform the local communities they operate and exist in and apprentices courageously pursuing life-changing professional growth. Its mission is to foster economic and community development by encouraging career advancement and living-wage attainment opportunities for a variety of apprenticeable occupations in urban and rural communities. West Hills Community College District’s colleges offer low-cost or free, coordinated apprentice instruction to business and industry partners utilizing innovative, registered apprenticeship programs to tackle a critical skilled labor shortage.
December 29, 2018
What is an Apprenticeship?
Apprenticeship offers just the right blend of "learning by doing." and theoretical instruction to produce workers who have just the right skills for each industry.
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May 18, 2020
California Human Resources Professional Apprenticeship Committee
The role of the California Human Resources Professional Apprenticeship Committee is to represent and govern its HR Professional Apprenticeship Program.
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May 18, 2020
Westside Works Early Childhood Educator Apprenticeship Committee
The role of the Westside Works Early Childhood Educator Apprenticeship Committee is to represent and govern its Early Childhood Educator Apprenticeship Program.
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September 09, 2019
How Apprenticeship Can Be A Resource For Employers
How Apprenticeship Can Be A Resource For Employers
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September 09, 2019
Apprenticeship Program Options for 2020/2021
Apprenticeship Program Options for 2020/2021
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December 31, 2018
A Call to Action
Westside Works is a Call to Action. Its mission is to ultimately change lives and foster economic and community development by training and employing the very people who have the ability to transform their own rural communities.
Apprenticeship Programs
December 30, 2018
Instruction Offered | Westside Works
View course options for apprenticeship programs tailored to your business needs in the following industry sectors
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December 29, 2018
What is an Apprenticeship?
Apprenticeship offers just the right blend of "learning by doing." and theoretical instruction to produce workers who have just the right skills for each industry.
Westside Works
December 28, 2018
Great Reasons To Start An Apprenticeship Program
Learn about some of the benefits of having an apprenticeship program including how it can reduce overall costs and improve productivity and retention.
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December 27, 2018
5 Steps To Starting An Apprenticeship Program
Learn how to partner with Westside work to establish a highly effective apprenticeship program
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97% of U.S. apprenticeship sponsors (private employers who offer apprenticeships) would recommend apprenticeship programs

Center for American Progress
2018
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94% of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development

Linked In
2018 Workplace Learning Report
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"Apprenticeship increases productivity; Employees in a structured training program are motivated to achieve"