Abstract
The nation’s policy agenda for employment and training increasingly includes efforts to create health career pathways for low-income and skilled individuals—from new entry through advancement—by engaging employers as key partners in workforce development through sector-based partnerships (National Skills Coalition 2018). This chapter presents findings from the Health Care Employer Research Initiative, a four-year partnership between the New Hampshire Office of Minority Health and Refugee Affairs (OMHRA) and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.¹
The goal of this research initiative was to examine how New Hampshire