This practice brief introduces work-based learning, a central and novel aspect of how workers in the Jobs to Careers initiative are trained and advanced, and it illustrates an approach to implementing this core concept at the initiative’s sites in Arizona and Oregon.A partnership headed by Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff designed a four-step, work-based learning process for public health technicians on the Navajo reservation. The partnership headed by Asante Health System then adapted and refined that process for the setting of an urban hospital, showing how the method can be successfully applied in a completely different environment. The experiences of the two partnerships illustrate how practitioners—at Jobs to Careers sites and in the health care sector in general—might apply this concept to frontline health work.
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ResourcesA Primer for Work-Based LearningHow to Make a Job the Basis for a College EducationOverviewMore in Behavioral HealthFindings from Research into Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus’s Work-Based Learning Program for Mental Health Workers
A Frontline Worker at SSTAR
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A Research Summary
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Frontline workers and training staff of Humility of Mary Health Partners
A profile of Rachel Clark, frontline worker for Humility of Mary Health Partners
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A National Convening on the Direct-Care Workforce in the Eldercare/Disabilities Services Sector
Assisted Living in Portland, Oregon
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Work-based Learning
Building on Community Resources
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