Quarterly meetings are open to all stakeholders invested in creating a stronger, more inclusive healthcare workforce in Chicagoland. Meetings typically include updates on CHWC projects, presentations featuring healthcare workforce programs and opportunities to partner, collaborative discussions on critical workforce issues, and networking time. A detailed agenda for this meeting will be posted here a couple weeks prior.

Quarterly meetings are open to all stakeholders invested in creating a stronger, more inclusive healthcare workforce in Chicagoland. Meetings typically include updates on CHWC projects, presentations featuring healthcare workforce programs and opportunities to partner, collaborative discussions on critical workforce issues, and networking time. A detailed agenda for this meeting will be posted here a couple weeks prior.

UIHealth boasts one of the largest volunteer departments in Illinois. The department not only provides support to staff and patients, but also serves as a talent pipeline. In recent years, over 350 volunteers have transitioned to employment within the health system!  Join Kinga Keilman, Senior Director, Volunteer Services, Workforce Development & Clinical Rotations, and her colleagues on January 21st (3-4PM,

Health systems across the country are grappling with the shortage of registered nurses, expected to reach over 300,000 nationally by 2027. Join us to learn how two health systems, The University of Vermont Health Network and Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina (now a part of Advocate), are investing in their frontline talent to improve financial well-being among teammates while

Join us to learn how Condensed Curriculum International (CCI) worked with UMass Global and Mass General Brigham to build the Ready-To-Work program, designed to offer no-cost, short-term training programs to underemployed Boston residents and existing employees seeking advancement. Through their partnership with CCI, the Ready-To-Work team has successfully recruited and enrolled over 15,000 candidates, resulting in more than 750 job

Do employer-based health and well-being initiatives exacerbate health inequities? Join researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Health Work to learn about their ongoing collaborative project with a regional mid-Atlantic health system, studying the organization’s efforts to implement an equitable culture of health and well-being (HWB). The research focus has at its center the idea that health equity

Agenda includes: Re-cap of our 2025 accomplishments. Report-out on our Chicagoland Respiratory Therapy Workforce Summit, which brought together over 100 leaders to examine the shortage of respiratory therapists and develop strategies to increase the number of respiratory therapists in our region through collaborative working groups. Report-out on the Equitable Career Pathways grant project led by Malcolm X College, the Chicagoland

AGENDA:  CHWC updates including results from our 2024 year-end survey, presentation of our 2025 strategic plan, and an update on the Good Jobs Challenge Local healthcare workforce data overview (Lightcast Industry Snapshot & Lightcast Job Posting Analytics) and discussion Healthcare workforce policy update from Illinois Health & Hospital Association Update on a grant initiative to increase Black male participation and

Learn about workforce services and funding offered by the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, the non-profit umbrella organization that operates the largest public workforce system in the country. As the designated administrator of federal workforce development funding for the City of Chicago and Cook County, The Partnership oversees a network of approximately 70 community-based organizations, American Job Centers, satellite sites, and

Join us to learn how a no-cost partnership with Rivet School can be a game-changer for your workforce development strategy, providing healthcare organizations with ROI-driven career development opportunities for non-clinical frontline staff. Rivet School and Ochsner Health System will share their high impact partnership model that has supported upskilling employees from entry-level roles to management and specialist roles in patient

Hospital systems across the country are struggling to fill frontline clinical roles and provide accessible opportunities for employees to advance. In response, more and more employers are working with training providers to build on-the-job training and apprenticeship models. Join us for the second in a multi-session series to learn how a South Carolina community college took the lead in building

Hospital systems across the country are struggling to fill frontline clinical roles and provide accessible opportunities for employees to advance. In response, more and more employers are working with training providers to build on-the-job training and apprenticeship models. Join us for the first in a multi-session series to learn how an Ohio system built programs to upskill their incumbent workforce