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Training program helps Portlanders find new careers in health care
Click here for story Amid urgent shortages, AFSCME Local 328, OHSU, United We Heal, Unite Oregon partner to grow, diversify health care workforce
A Strategic Playbook for Integrating Worker Expertise into Business Strategy
Click here for story This worker voice how-to guide includes four pillars of a strong, meaningful worker voice strategy employers can use to strengthen existing employee engagement efforts and launch new employee
Behavioral Health Is the ‘New Kid on the Block’ for Unions.
September 25, 2025 Click the link to read the story.
United We Heal Innovative Program Partners With Employers To Fill Behavioral Health Workforce Gaps
September 22, 2025 With a statewide behavioral crisis and severe staffing crisis, United We Heal has developed a pathway for behavioral health workers to advance
OHSU Building Bridges Graduation
June 2025 Building Bridges is a FREE, entry-level healthcare career training program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Funded by the Future Ready Oregon
Oregon lawmakers allocated $85M to add mental health treatment beds, didn’t show same drive to expedite staffing
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/04/oregon-lawmakers-allocated-85m-to-add-mental-health-treatment-beds-didnt-show-same-drive-to-expedite-staffing.html April 3, 2024
AFSCME behavioral health apprenticeship nets federal funding
https://nwlaborpress.org/2023/02/afscme-behavioral-health-apprenticeship-nets-federal-funding/ Feb 15, 2023
Apprenticeship is catching on
https://nwlaborpress.org/2022/01/apprenticeship-is-catching-on/ Jan 19, 2022
Apprenticeship training model expands to mental health workers
https://nwlaborpress.org/2022/10/apprenticeship-training-model-expands-to-mental-health-workers/ Oct 19, 2022