The first step to financial security and growth is having stable employment. The National Urban League launched the Urban Apprenticeships Jobs Program (UAJP) to not only help career and job placement, but to create a pipeline of employable people of color across America.

Our Approach

The UAJP creates employment opportunities for historically underemployed, and underutilized, communities through registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs. When it was first launched, the original focus of the UAJP was limited to efforts to recruit individuals for registered apprenticeship opportunities in the wireless infrastructure industry.

In 2017, the focus expanded to registered apprenticeship programs across multiple occupations with a specific focus on the following industries: construction, telecommunications, information technology, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare.

Our Impact

Since its launch in 2016, the UAJP has set in motion a pre-apprenticeship program focused on the fiber optics industry in Charlotte, NC, and has conducted multiple equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity and inclusion webinars across the country. In addition to these accomplishments, the UAJP has been very successful in participant enrollment and establishing partnerships.