Paris and Mason (1995) describe Boston's Pro Tech youth apprenticeship program:
"The [Boston] Pro Tech model is a 2+2 youth apprenticeship program which articulates classroom learning, clinical internships and work experience over the last two years of high school and two years of community college. Pro Tech targets 'non-college bound youth,' basing selection for participation on 10th grade students' academic performance, attendance, teacher recommendations and interest in the occupational field. The health careers apprenticeship program is coordinated by a partnership of the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC), private employers, labor organizations, and non-profits. Each high school has a lead teacher/coordinator, who receives staff development and training to help coordinate curriculum and serves as a liaison to hospital staff. Each hospital has an appointed human resource worker/coordinator who helps train hospital staff to serve as mentors on clinical rotations. Both coordinators meet with the Pro Tech central staff regularly to discuss curriculum, hospital and school components and issues. Each school is adapting the Pro Tech program to meet its mission and goals with curriculum development and modification designed independently at each school. Although each school takes a unique approach, all curricula is integrated and applied, based on a common set of educational resources developed by teachers, the hospitals and with consultants from World Education (Jobs for the Future, 1993). The work-based component of the Pro Tech program is designed to integrate with the core curriculum, and provide sequential, progressive and broad based work experiences for student apprentices. All work-based experiences are paid, and as the students progress through the program, an increasing amount of their time is spent on-the-job in positions directly related to their occupational choice." (p. 43-44)
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