Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care explores new ways to help frontline health care workers get the skills they need to do their current jobs better and to advance to higher-skilled, higher-paid positions. Jobs to Careers not only benefits workers and their families but also helps employers retain talented and committed workforces and ensure that patients receive the highest-quality care.

A hallmark of Jobs to Careers is work-based learning: frontline employees master occupational and academic skills in the course of completing their jobs tasks and fulfilling their day-to-day responsibilities. While working full time, frontline employees enter college and earn academic credit for workplace training.

This $15.8 million initiative supports 17 partnerships of employers, educational institutions, and other organizations to create lasting improvements in the way frontline workers are trained, rewarded, and advanced. Jobs to Careers is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with The Hitachi Foundation and the U.S. Department of Labor. Jobs for the Future manages the initiative.