Based on the landscape analysis, the EdSystems team proposes the following strategies to both prepare residents for living wage roles in the health sciences sector and meet labor market demands:

• Expand program offerings leading to more middle-skills technologists or high-end technicians, e.g., medical laboratory or cardiovascular technologist.
• Create the structures to move other typically non-stackable roles with industry certifications or licenses (e.g., pharmacy technician, phlebotomist, medical assistant) into more advanced administrative roles and clinical functions. Working with employers, create apprenticeship or ”earn and learn” opportunities for these employees to move into more advanced non-nursing administrative or clinical roles.
• Ensure entry-level assistants (CNA’s, medical assistants) aren’t “stopping out” at these roles. Build capacity of partner nonprofits to provide alumni career pathway supports to individuals employed in these occupations. Pilot these programs through philanthropy but ultimately integrate them into WIOA structures.
• Consider replicating early childhood’s “Gateways to Opportunity Registry” model (including registration, transcript reviews, access to informational sessions and training, access to scholarships) in health sciences.