How Oregon Works: Portland nonprofit uses $18M in grants to diversify region's health care workforce

About 1,000 people in the Portland metro area are in training for health care jobs with the help of two federal grants. Worksystems, a nonprofit that provides workforce development to residents in Portland and Multnomah and Washington counties, is using two grants totaling $18 million to develop a more diverse health care workforce in the region. The grants run until 2020. The goal is to get 1,800 people from low -income and/or under-represented communities trained in jobs in nursing, medical…
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