Join Kaiser Permanente’s 2024 Virtual Workforce Development Week

Join Kaiser Permanente’s 2024 Virtual Workforce Development Week

Kaiser Permanente employees are invited to join the third Workforce Development Week, February 6 to 8. At this virtual event, you’ll hear from colleagues and leaders across Kaiser Permanente with tips for building skills and developing your career. Health care is changing rapidly. The best way to prepare is to keep learning and build resilience. Sign up for Workforce Development Week to access the content.

Most sessions will be prerecorded and less than 15 minutes. View the sessions that interest you at any time, as your schedule allows, even after the week is over.

Sign up now. You need to register to access the content.

Workforce Development Week will focus on steps you can take today to:

  • Access education and training resources to enhance your professional skills
  • Explore career paths
  • Use tuition reimbursement and education trusts
  • Engage with mentors, counselors and coaches
  • Prepare for tomorrow’s jobs

Event highlights include:

  • Mentoring and Workplace Culture: A panel discussion February 6, from noon to 1 p.m. Pacific time, on how mentoring can help build a supportive workplace culture. Speakers: Patricia Pittman, George Washington University health workforce equity professor, and Laura Long and Ije-Enu Nwosu, Kaiser Permanente senior leaders.
  • EPIC (Education Partnerships Inspiring Change) Awards: These new awards honor the top workforce development efforts in the Labor Management Partnership. You decide People’s Choice for your favorite training program.
  • Workle: Play our version of Wordle, with a new challenge word each day.

 

Workforce Development Week is hosted by National Workforce Planning and Development. It’s sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, the Alliance of Health Care Unions, and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.

Welcome to the Training Fund, Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County

Welcome to the Training Fund, Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County

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Welcome to our new members from Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County (PHHCSC)! You will be eligible for our programs and services beginning January 1st, 2024.

We offer education and career advancement programs so that you can develop your skills, advance your career, and improve your professional opportunities. After January 1, please fill out our online member application to access available academic and career navigation services.

Watch our welcome video to learn more about the Training Fund!

These programs and services are available to you after you have been employed by PHHCSC for 90 days:

Sarah Taylor, RN at Providence Hospice and Home Care, talks about her experience with a HEET program coordinated by the Training Fund and how the program and benefits impacted her life.

I am Sarah Taylor. I have been a nurse 36 years. I have been at Providence Hospice 13 of those years. Graduated with my RN in 2010. I was an LPN for 25 years. I finally had decided to pursue getting my RN. I found so many obstacles trying to get into a program for a returning LPN. I had given up, that is where SEIU and Valley General Hospital in Monroe collaborated together to me and many others. The HEET grant was formed. HEET stands for health employees education training fund.  I would not have gotten my RN without this fund. I am always so grateful for this. This fund helped me with books, tuition, tutors and even scrubs for clinicals. There was a group of 15 of us from Valley General in Monroe. We all have our RN and some have continued to obtain their BSN. I can not begin thank this program enough on it has changed and impacted my life. 

Sarah Taylor

RN, Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County

  Tuition Assistance

Once you have worked at Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County for one year, you may also qualify for Tuition Assistance, which covers tuition, fees, and book costs for a wide variety of healthcare education programs at regional colleges and universities. But even if you have not yet worked at PHHCSC for one year, please contact us to explore academic support and resources, career planning, and how we can help you reach your goals.

Your Tuition Assistance application deadline is February 15, 2024 if you plan to attend school beginning April 2024 or later. We encourage members to contact us early to work with a Training Fund Navigator on your education plan.

Click here to learn more about Tuition Assistance. To begin the Tuition Assistance process, submit a Member Application form at the link below.

If you are currently in school and have already been receiving Tuition Reimbursement from your previous Education Fund, you may be able to add Tuition Assistance from the Training Fund. Please complete a Member Application form and connect with us to learn more about next steps.

We look forward to serving you as you pursue your education and career goals.

If you have questions or need help applying, please don’t hesitate to call the Training Fund office (425-255-0315) or email us.

The Training Fund Awarded $2 million as Career Connect Washington’s Healthcare Sector Leader

The Training Fund Awarded $2 million as Career Connect Washington’s Healthcare Sector Leader

Washington Jobs Initiative Sectoral Partnership Awards Training Fund $2M

The Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC), Employment Security Department, and Career Connect Washington (CCW) recently awarded the Training Fund $2M through the Washington Jobs Initiative Sectoral Partnerships. This funding will play a valuable role in supporting our entry-level healthcare pathway programs and partnerships.

In total, approximately $17M was awarded across eight sectoral partnerships and five key industries to help train and place 3,000 Washingtonians into good, family-sustaining, jobs. As Career Connect Washington’s Healthcare Sector Leader, the Training Fund is proud to continue facilitating cross-sector collaboration, pursuing workforce development opportunities, and promoting healthcare education and career pathways.

Maud Daudon, executive leader of CCW said, “The work of these sectoral partnerships will greatly enhance Career Connect Washington’s progress on providing new pathways to careers, especially for those farthest from opportunity.”

Read WSAC’s Media Release

Learn more about CCW and our work.

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The Training Fund’s 15-Year Anniversary Celebration

The Training Fund’s 15-Year Anniversary Celebration

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On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, members, education partners, healthcare employers and staff came together to celebrate the fifteen year anniversary of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training and Education Fund (Training Fund). We celebrated our innovative labor/management partnerships that drive workforce solutions, our members and their successes, our work over the last 15 years and our hopes for the next 15 years. Attendees included member speakers, representatives from major healthcare employers across Washington, and local dignitaries such as SEIU Healthcare 1199NW President Jane Hopkins, and King County Executive Dow Constantine. 

“Achievements are one of the things we’re here to celebrate. We are also celebrating partnership and perspectives. This is the cornerstone of what the Training Fund does.”

Laura Hopkins

Executive Director, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund

“I am really inspired by the member speakers … Thank you and congratulations. I’m always impressed by the Training Fund’s exceptional work and the impact 15 years of service has had on the healthcare community.”

Dow Constantine

King County Executive

Program participants and members shared their victories and stories. Labor and management partners spoke about the successes that have come from partnership with the Training Fund. Local politicians and leaders spoke about how the Training Fund is valuable for our communities. 

“I would like to give my thanks from the bottom of my heart to the SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund for helping me to pursue my dreams and making it possible to accomplish my aspirations”

Alex Knox

Nursing Assistant, MultiCare Deaconess Hospital

The event concluded with the presentation of the inaugural Diane Sosne Award by Diane Sosne on behalf of the Training Fund to King County Executive, Dow Constantine. The SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund proudly recognizes Dow Constantine, King County Executive, as an exemplary partner for his significant contribution to the healthcare workforce and community; his passion and dedication to equity, access, and workers’ advocacy; and for being a champion of Labor-Management collaboration.

Thank you Dow Constantine, King County Executive, April Sims from Washington State Labor Council, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Providence Swedish, UW Medicine, MultiCare Health System, Providence health system, PeaceHealth St. Joseph, Neighborcare Health, and everyone else who made the evening a grand success!

It was a FANTASTIC event. The people, presentations, personal stories, and celebration was incredible, along with the delicious food. WOW! Y’all know how to throw a celebration! I was honored to be a part of the event. SJI is excited and honored to be a collaborative partner with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Training Fund. The combined efforts of local and regional partners have increased the positive impacts to our communities and healthcare industry.

James Ramirez

Administration Service Manager , Seattle Jobs Initiative

“It’s really exciting to be able to see so many wonderful faces and people in the room tonight to be able to celebrate the great accomplishments of the Training Fund and how it has impacted and changed lives, not only in the workplace but think about the lives that have changed in our communities.”

Yolanda King-Lowe

Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund Board Member

The Training Fund’s accomplishments include:

  • Supporting more than 1,500 healthcare workers annually with Career Counseling services since 2018
  • More than $23.8 million awarded in federal, state, and private grants 
  • Six Washington State-registered Healthcare Apprenticeships (spanning medical/pharmacy & behavioral health pathways)
  • 106 pre-apprenticeship program participants since 2021
  • Career Connect Washington‘s Healthcare Sector Leader
  • 167 certified Nursing Assistants have completed our NA-C training program since 2021
  • 408 members have used Tuition Assistance to advance their careers and education in 2023 alone — 63% of them identify as BIPOC
The year is ending, don’t miss out on funding!

The year is ending, don’t miss out on funding!

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Submit for tuition assistance, education, training, or professional development funding by Dec. 31. The Training Fund encourages you to submit your funding requests and supporting documentation early to make the deadline.

Tuition Assistance

Submit your funding request for Tuition Assistance using this request form.

Professional Development

Eligible Professional Development activities can be reimbursed using these forms.

Nurse Specialty Certification & Professional Development

As an eligible RN, you can be reimbursed up to $300 per year for CEUs/courses, specialty nurse certification exam and re-certification fees, and professional memberships (providing CEU access). Use these forms under the Nurses (RN) tab.

Pro/Tech Conference Travel Funding Award deadline is Dec. 1

Pro/Tech Conference Travel Funding Award deadline is Dec. 1

The Pro/Tech Conference Travel Funding Award application deadline is right around the corner!

Did you know that we provide our Professional and Technical members with up to $1,500 per year (in reimbursements) to attend local and national conferences?* 

Apply before December 1 for any conferences that you plan to attend in 2024.

Professional and Technical workers also have professional development money available to them.

These benefits enable you to attend conferences, advance your career, and minimize personal out-of-pocket costs.

Here’s how it works:

  • Pro/Tech Conference funding can cover the cost of travel (hotel, transportation expenses, etc.) and registration fees.
  • Pro/Tech Professional Development benefits can cover the cost of attending a conference, e.g., registration fees.
  • Both benefits require members to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

The deadline to apply for a Pro/Tech Conference Travel Funding Award is December 1.**

*Applications must be submitted before the conference.

**For conferences in 2024.