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Forsyth Tech added to list of federal Apprenticeship Ambassadors

The U.S. Department of Labor has named Forsyth Technical Community College to its latest list of Apprenticeship Ambassadors.

The Biden Administration created the ambassadors program to expand and connect the institutions that provide education and on-the-job experience for prospective employees.

Forsyth Tech’s Learn & Earn program is now part of that effort. 

Amy Davis-Moore is a former instructor at Forsyth Tech who now works for ApprenticeshipNC, an agency that works with the state’s 58 community colleges to develop a pipeline of workers for the state’s employers.  

She says apprenticeship programs used to be known for skilled labor and manufacturing work. But with shortages across many job sectors, the need for programs like Learn and Earn has expanded.

“We’re working with early childhood education, we’re working with healthcare in the area of RN (nursing)," she says. "We have apprenticeship opportunities in areas that oftentimes aren’t thought of as apprenticeship roles.”

Davis-Moore says one of the goals of the ambassadors program is to increase job opportunities for women, people of color, and residents of rural areas.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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