Recent Awards and Updates HR Committee – Board of Trustees Meeting
Recruitment Team Receives Diversity Award • The Alameda Health System (AHS) Recruitment Team recently received the Diversity Spirit Achievement Award. Sukari Dixon and Sean Belisle received the award on behalf of AHS. The award was presented to AHS at the Diversity Employment Career Fair in Oakland. • This accolade is given to organizations that demonstrate efforts made to implement, advance and perpetuate Diversity & Inclusion within the workplace and community. It is hoped that through this recognition others will become inspired, educated and motivated to emulate such outstanding efforts to support Diversity & Inclusion. 2
Awards and Recognition
AHS Receives Linked Learning Award What is Linked Learning: • Linked Learning is a successful approach to education based on the idea that students work harder and dream bigger if their education is relevant to them. The Linked Learning approach integrates rigorous academics that meet college-ready standards with sequenced, high-quality career-technical education, work-based learning, and supports to help students stay on track. For Linked Learning students, education is organized around industry-sector themes. • Linked Learning exposes high school students to previously unimagined college and career opportunities by turning their education into a personally relevant, engaging experience. Research shows that Linked Learning students have higher rates of engagement and higher graduation rates than their peers at traditional high schools. This approach to education is helping to create a disciplined, prepared, and productive future workforce, ready to succeed in college, career, and life .
The Award • Alameda Health System (AHS) received the Linked Learning Employer Champion Award from the Linked Learning Alliance. The award recognizes AHS HealthPATH; the workforce development initiative of AHS that prepares youth and young adults for healthcare careers.
Alameda Health System Receives Linked Learning Champion Employer Award The Linked Learning Alliance is a statewide coalition of education, industry, and community organizations dedicated to improving California’s high schools and preparing students for success in college, career, and life. Established in May 2008, the Linked Learning Alliance aims to build a collective voice and coordinate efforts to expand access to Linked Learning in California—an approach to high school that integrates rigorous academics with real-world learning opportunities in fields of engineering, health care, performing arts, law, and more. 6
AHS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT/CAREER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INCUMBENT WORKER UPGRADE TRAINING/CAREER LOCAL HIRING INITIATIVES OTHER PIPELINE PROGRAMS ADVANCEMENT HEAL SEIU Ed Fund contract Internship placements for community-based 30 60 90 Day Onboarding Internship program for high school training providers (e.g., The Unity Council, JVS) Automated check-in’s for hiring students at Highland, Eastmont, & manager SLH. 250/year Mentoring in Medicine & Science High Road to Training Partnership Allen Temple Career Fair Community Church hosting a Job Coaching Pilot Bridge program for EVS & Food Service community event on wellness and we participated as an Pilot job coaching program for Internship program for high school and workers at Highland and AH interested in Employer in Alameda County. frontline workers during 90 day college. 30/year career advancement. Offered in 2018. Ed Fund probationary period. Train managers seeking grant funding for year 2. to provide coaching. East Bay Innovations Pathway mapping project City Career Fair EEOP-Recruitment Select 3-4 pathways to map and develop user- Commitment to diversity hiring. We participate Advertising campaign to increase Internship for individuals with friendly interface for AHS employees, hiring annually in this fair. It is a national event-we attend the candidates in job categories where developmental disabilities. 3-4/year managers, and community partners. Alameda County event and were awarded this calendar underutilization was identified year (19) for the Diversity Spirit Award. FACES for the FUTURE Coder Apprenticeship EDD Partnership In partnership with the SEIU Ed Fund. Coder Hosted several events with the EDD in Oakland: Internship for high school students at training for a small cohort of AHS employees. 1. ‘Apply this’ workshop to educate the SLH and AH. 30/year 3-5/year. community on the application process 2. ‘Keep it moving’ hiring event hosted for Transportation Program Workers 3. ‘What cooking?’ hiring event hosted for food service workers and cooks ELAM Fellows MA Apprenticeship Alameda County Social Services In partnership with the SEIU Ed Fund. MA 1. Hosted ‘Apply this’ workshop to educate the Fellowship for physician graduates of training for a small cohort of AHS employees. community on the application process the Latin American School of Medicine 3-10/year. 7 in Cuba. 4/year
AHS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT/CAREER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INCUMBENT WORKER UPGRADE TRAINING/CAREER PIPELINE PROGRAMS ADVANCEMENT AHS Volunteer Program In-House Career Counseling Event 380 year Event for current AHS employees to provide information on j ob opportunities at AHS Health Career Connection Engineering Apprenticeship at AH Summer internship for college students. 8/year Worked with union to place 1 person in an apprenticeship program at AH Healthpath Panelist MA Certification Program Working with the Ed Fund to support current MAs to meet new 1. Panel member to discuss healthcare careers certification requirement Pathfinder Cohort Presenter Employee University 1. Presentation on careers in healthcare for HS OLE would like to develop online training for all AHS employees to students upgrade skills Health Advocates Workshop 1. Participate in HA event and host a workshop for mock interviews and resume review 8
Employee Profiles HR Committee – Board of Trustees Meeting
Ramon Lopez Registered Nurse, ICU Highland Hospital I’m driven by what I felt I lacked growing up — that’s how I want to make a “In my unit, I’m difference. And AHS has given me a great platform for that. encircled by a great When I received my associate degree, I became the highest educated individual in my family . Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of influences to guide me into higher group of senior and education. But I did have one person I looked up to when I was in high school: Ms. Gower, a retired registered nurse. She gave me an image of fulfillment that I’d never expert nurses who are seen. I gravitated toward that. That’s where nursing started for me. always willing to guide I began my undergrad education at Diablo V alley Community College, then I transferred to Samuel Merritt University here in Oakland. I came to love the me to the next level. If community of Oakland because it reminded me of the community that I came from — a lot of underserved immigrants, people that were afraid of medical institutions. you show them that you But when I would do my community hours as a student, everybody would talk about Highland Hospital. That piqued my interest. And here I am, working in the ICU. want to learn they’ll I love being here. It’s a great place to be mentored. In my unit, I’m encircled by a teach you everything great group of senior and expert nurses who are always willing to guide me to the next level. If you show them that you want to learn they’ll teach you everything they they know.” know. I always see myself as a student, eager to learn and push myself to the next level professionally and personally — like when I hiked up Mt. Whitney , 14,000 feet in the air. I never thought I could do it. But I set the doubt aside and took one step at a time. Once you reach limits that you feel you never could before, it’s amazing how rewarding it is. So why don’t I go to the next mountain? Why not climb the next obstacle?
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