Our friend, Southwest WA Area Health Education Center (AHEC), is offering a FREE 3-hour Practical Application to Comprehensive Treatment of Pain training on the “safe integration of opioids into personalized pain management.” 

FREE

Available to: ANY licensed/certified health sciences provider in Washington state

All completers will receive a certificate of completion from PriMed.

Where: Virtual

When: Asynchronous through October 31st, 2024

Grant period ends September 30th, 2024.

The  Practical Approaches to Comprehensive Treatment of Pain program empowers you with the skills to effectively diagnose and treat pain holistically, highlighting both opioid and nonopioid options. You’ll master the safe integration of opioids into personalized pain management, mitigate risks, and identify signs of opioid dependence. Gain the expertise to optimally manage your patients’ pain and medication use to make a positive impact on public health.

Questions? Contact:

Pat Lange, Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Manager

Office: 360-786-9722 ext. 209

Cell: (253) 223-5997

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.

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.

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. 

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!

Learn more about our work and accomplishments over the last 15 years in our press release 15 Years of Advancing Healthcare Careers, Creating Career Pathways and Improving Patient Care across Washington.

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 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.