East Bay Health Pathway Partnership Goals:

1. Build a comprehensive and deep map of regional Health labor market needs, within the context of ACA and delivery system redesign, as the basis for greater alignment of employer priorities with education and training capacity and content. Establish a forum for monitoring and responding to emerging future needs.

2. Identify core competencies employers need in health career pathways and creative, efficient ways of partnering to best prepare east bay youth and residents.

3. Analyze and map existing supply side educational pathway work to identify gaps and targets for new curriculum and health pathway programs.

4. Develop a structure and strategies to support individual health pathway initiatives to be successful and foster collaboration and leverage resources for greater collective impact. Enhance the impact of current investments, minimize duplication of effort and increase sustainability.

5. Develop a coordinated approach to employer engagement and partnerships.

6. Build a linked, sequential health pathway system that provides comprehensive support for young people from K-12, through community and four year college, health professions school and employment in our communities. Grow our own health workforce and leadership and the scale and in the professions that we need.

7. Lay a foundation for an ongoing regional health care sector intermediary effort that will support coordination of supply and demand side issues and collaboration.