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### Transforming Frontline Healthcare: Empowering Workers through Credentialing and Training ###

Discover the Jobs to Careers initiative aimed at enhancing the skills and earnings of frontline healthcare workers in Owensboro. Through accelerated, work-based LPN training and partnerships with community colleges, this program focuses on credentialing incumbent nutrition and environmental staff, helping them nearly double their earnings. By fostering collaboration between employers and educational institutions, we equip lower-paid workers with essential competencies, enabling career advancement and improved patient care. Learn more about this $15.8 million initiative and its impact on over 1,000 workers across 17 sites. ###

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### Transforming Frontline Healthcare: Empowering Workers through Credentialing and Training ###

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  1. Experience and Approach: Credentialing Frontline Workers in Healthcare • Not for Circulation without Permission • Mark Popovich • The Hitachi Foundation • mpopovich@hitachifoundation.org

  2. Introducing Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care Owensboro: Regional Medical Center and Community & Technical College Accelerated, Work-Based LPN Training/Credentialing Incumbent Nutrition and Environmental Staff Almost Double Earnings Meet Staff Requirements for Crucial Regional Employer

  3. Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care • Explores new ways for employers and educational institutions to help • health care workers to do their current job better and advance • Focused on incumbent workers who are lower paid, often not • credentialed and involved in the lion’s share of direct patient care • R&D on “Work-Based Learning” • Partnerships define important competencies/knowledge, engage at • the work site and through distance learning and/or more traditional • “training” approaches • Workers master and demonstrate occupational and academic skills • $15.8m, five-year initiative supporting 17 sites/partnerships www.jobs2careers.org for extensive background materials on the Initiative and on Work-Based Learning.

  4. Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care

  5. Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care Characteristics of J2C Program Participants 17 Sites, About 1,000 Front Line Workers, 34 Employers Women 89% High School or Less 61% Minority Black 19% Hispanic 23% Other Minority 27% Average Age 36 years old Married 52% Children 53%

  6. Jobs to Careers: Results and Change Oriented Partnerships Preliminary: Further Gains Are Likely

  7. Jobs to Careers: Results and Change Oriented Partnerships Preliminary: Further Gains Are Likely

  8. Credentialing Conundrum

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