Meet Adrienne Perry, 23, whose eyes were opened to the vast oral health problems faced by adults and children during a trip to Guatemala. That trip, coupled with six weeks of intensive classes through SMDEP, awakened the third-year Howard University ...

The Faces of RWJF Human Capital

February 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

For 40 years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has been investing in people, or “human capital,” with the potential to be bold, innovative change agents, capable of improving the health and health care of all Americans. Watch a video featur ...

Advancing in Health and Health Care Careers - Rung by Rung

August 1, 2007 | Issue Brief

This issue brief, drawing on the experience of the Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, illustrates how one such career ladder system could work, as well as some important considerations when designing and implementing such a system. The al ...

Evaluation Identifies Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from a Collaborative in Health Care Workforce Development

January 31, 2011 | Program Result

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative invested $3.4 million in a first round of grants for workforce programs that were expected to train and advance nearly 700 low-income and low-wage, entry-level and incumbent workers.

Evaluation of Better Jobs, Better Care

October 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll

Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers (DCW).

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