Projects
Proven through practice: 17 local partnerships of health care providers, education institutions, and other community organizations have designed and implemented the Jobs to Careers approach to improve outcomes for frontline workers and their employers. Launched in 2005, Jobs to Careers awarded three-year grants to these partnerships to:
- Create lasting improvements in the way institutions train, advance, and reward frontline employees; and
- Test new models of education and training that incorporate work-based learning
The partnerships trained over 800 frontline workers across four subsectors of health care: community health centers; hospitals; long-term care facilities; and behavioral health facilities. Learn more by browsing by subsector.
Creating a career ladder in behavioral health
Embracing Native-American traditions in training workers for public health and nursing careers
Training hospital staff for patient care positions
Addressing the demand for skilled patient care workers
Responding to the needs of a multicultural community
Upgrading the addiction counseling skills of frontline behavioral health workers
Improving long-term care through a better trained nursing assistant staff
Meeting the need for hospital staff skilled in information technology
Building the skills of hospital administration staff
Addressing the need for skilled bilingual and bicultural health care center workers
Advancing frontline hospital workers through an accelerated, part-time nursing degree program
Defining competencies for frontline behavioral health workers
Building the competencies of direct care staff to better serve residents of elder care facilities
Improving community-based care for HIV-positive clients
Building a career pathway to medical assistant jobs
Raising the skills and wages of frontline community health center workers
Training frontline hospital workers to fill patient care and administrative positions
