Futuro Health Receives $1.32M in Grants to Empower Healthcare Employers to Grow Their Own Workforce

This Thanksgiving, Futuro Health is proud to announce $1.32 million in new grants aimed at fostering stronger collaborations with healthcare employers committed to creating a workforce that reflects the diversity of their communities. The funding will support the expansion of learn-and-earn programs and apprenticeship-based workforce development models. Major contributors, including the College Futures Foundation and the U.S. Department of Labor, are helping advance Futuro Health’s mission to grow the largest network of allied healthcare workers in the nation, improving the health and wealth of communities.

Giving Thanks: Futuro Health Scholars Share their Gratitude

During this season of gratitude, we invite you to hear from our Scholars, who share heartfelt stories of how Futuro Health has shaped their journeys with opportunities, support, and a sense of belonging.

Meet our Student Services Team

Futuro Health’s Student Services Team includes Success Coaches, Outreach Team Members and Facilitators, each dedicated to supporting our Scholars in their educational journey towards a fulfilling career in healthcare.

Two Crises, One Solution

Futuro Health Receives $10.2 Million Grant from the Elisabeth C. Deluca Foundation

WorkforceRx Podcast

Joe E. Ross, President of Reach University

Episode #95: Turning Jobs Into Degrees

For those who can’t afford to leave their job to earn a degree, there’s a relatively new ‘learn and earn’ model that essentially turns a job into a degree program. It’s called the apprenticeship degree, and we’re going to learn all about it on today’s episode of WorkforceRx from Joe Ross, president of Reach University, which is dedicated to growing this approach. As Ross tells Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan, Reach’s first area of focus is K-12 schools where it can offer classroom aides, cafeteria workers and other staff without bachelor’s degrees a pathway to the teaching profession. A typical student might do online seminars twice per week in addition to working fulltime. Not only will this help with the teacher shortage, Ross says, it also increases diversity. “Paraeducators are much more likely to look like the students they serve in a given community than the teachers.” Find out how the programs are funded, how liberal arts courses can be integrated into the workplace experience and what models Reach is developing for the behavioral health sector as this innovation becomes more popular.