About Workforce Development
HASC Workforce Development is a multi-pronged effort to support health care workforce needs across Southern California. The initiative focuses on areas with a shortage of trained and qualified employees.
- College to Career Diversity Internship Program (CDIP)
- CLC Diversity in Health Care Scholarship and Stipend Program
- Priority Workforce Job Portal
- RN Specialty Pipeline Project
- SlingShot Initiative (Los Angeles and Ventura counties)
- Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Health Care Sector Collaborative (LA County)
- Quarterly Health Care Workforce Survey (statewide)
- Strong Workforce Program (statewide)
Other Workforce Resources
Workforce Development Board Contacts
Contact
For more information, contact Soyinka Allen, [email protected] or (213) 538-7022.
Podcasts
Lisa Mitchell, HASC Program Director, Workforce, speaks with Rebecca Evans, Executive Director of the Workforce Development Board of Ventura County (WDBVC) — Aug. 4, 2022
Teri Hollingsworth, HASC Vice President, HR and Education Services, and Cynthia Avila, WDBVC, are interviewed on KVTA Radio’s Workforce Wednesdays — June 24, 2022
In-person LEAD Academy 2024
If you’re a new health care manager or want to enhance your leadership skills, LEAD Academy was made for you! Join us at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, Glendale, for six intensive monthly sessions. You’ll gain insights that empower you to better understand and use your strengths as a leader.
LEAD Academy Informational Webinar
Overview Are you a health care manager who wants to reach your leadership potential in 2024? Learn about the LEAD Academy training experience in this free informational webinar. LEAD Academy is an intensive, 12-module program that will empower you to better understand and use your strengths. Through immersive learning and tools, you’ll discover how to […]
Scholarship Donors Help Students Pursue Health Care Careers
Communities Lifting Communities (CLC) and HASC are grateful to CalOptima, CenCal Health, Gold Coast Health Plan, Inland Empire Health Plan and L.A. Care Health Plan for their generous donations to the Diversity in Health Care Scholarship and Stipend Program. Thanks to their support, employees of HASC member hospitals will receive a financial boost to help […]
Bring Diverse Talent to your Hospital: Host a 2024 CDIP Intern
The HASC-Health Career Connection (HCC) workforce diversity program is known as the College to Career Diversity Internship Program, or CDIP. CDIP is a full-time, paid, project-based internship program that identifies and recruits local, diverse, high-performing upper-division college students and recent graduates seeking health care careers. Host an Intern We are now accepting host applications for the CDIP 2024 […]
CLC, HASC Announce First Diversity Scholarship Winners
Communities Lifting Communities and HASC are pleased to award seven health care scholarships through the Diversity in Health Care Scholarship and Stipend Program. Launched in 2023, the program was created to help reduce health disparities and improve community health throughout Southern California by fostering a more diverse workforce. It aims to achieve this goal by […]
Registered Nurse Ambulatory Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort
This summer, HASC, in partnership with HealthImpact and the Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board (SELACO WDB), saw the first cohort of 15 nurses graduate from HealthImpact’s California Registered Nurse Ambulatory Specialty Apprenticeship Program. The 12-month transition-to practice program supports nurses, new either to practice or to the specialty, through their first year working […]
El Camino College Offers Workforce Literacy Training
HASC is pleased to partner with El Camino College to offer the Workforce Literacy Training Program for hospital employees. This grant-funded initiative is designed to remove barriers to advancement by increasing language and math literacy for workers with limited English communication skills. The program has three primary components: English and math literacy, digital literacy and […]
Central Coast Workforce Summit Continues the Momentum
On July 27, HASC convened 50-plus stakeholders from hospitals, academic institutions, workforce boards and state partners at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The goal: to discuss the workforce supply and demand gap for nursing and allied health professionals across the Central Coast region. This workforce summit, in its second year, was intended to continue […]
Honoring Our Hospitals and Health Care Workers
As we celebrate National Hospital Week, May 7 to 13, I want to highlight the significant contributions our hospitals and health care workers make to our communities. In addition, we honor the compassionate healing work of our nurses as we recognize National Nurses Week, May 6 to 12. Did you know that Southern California hospitals […]
HASC, Stakeholders Join Summit on Health Care Workforce Gap
Recently, under the leadership of West Los Angeles College, HASC staff joined 50-plus stakeholders from community colleges, community partners and employers to address the supply and demand gap for allied health workers in Los Angeles County. The group convened at the college and listened to employers discuss their workforce needs, concerns and suggestions for curriculum development, and forecasts of future […]