Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
Apprenticeship provides opportunities for individuals to access well-paying careers through a training model that combines paid on-the-job-training and classroom education. This model can support access to opportunities for economic mobility for nontraditional learners and individuals from historically underserved communities. However, many promising candidates never pursue apprenticeship, and those who do ...
Erin Duckett is a TA consultant in the Workforce Program Area at AIR with over 15 years of experience in workforce development, with an emphasis on apprenticeship and sector partnerships. Duckett is a skilled facilitator, trainer, and coach with experience implementing and coaching apprenticeship expansion efforts. Her primary responsibilities fall under ...
The TA Partnership provides technical assistance to state, regional, and county system of care communities currently funded to operate the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, including those that have juvenile justice-involved youth as a population of focus. ...
To address the U.S. talent gap crisis, organizations are investing in skills-based practices to provide an expedited and more equitable approach to fill talent pipelines. AIR has engaged in this work and has partnered with a Fortune 500 technology company to expand the reach of their public facing, no-cost skills-development ...
Brittany Lenertz is a senior TA consultant with AIR. Her primary responsibilities include providing subject matter expertise, support and leadership on various projects, primarily for state and local workforce areas. She has over 20 years of experience in the public workforce development system. Lenertz’s work at AIR has included program ...
Christal Ramos is a managing director in the health division. She has over 16 years of experience implementing and studying policies and interventions to improve health equity, particularly for people with Medicaid or who are uninsured, and for communities of color. She is experienced in leading mixed-methods research, evaluation and ...
In this blog post, AIR TA Consultants Erin Duckett and Amy Beller discuss apprenticeships as a potential solution for the shortage of teachers in U.S. schools from early education through high school.
Personality phenotype has been associated with subsequent dementia in studies of older adults. This study used Project Talent data to examine whether personality during adolescence—a time when pre-clinical dementia pathology is unlikely to be present—confers risk for dementia in later life.