Health departments are critical drivers for change. The Learning Agenda for Systems Change is a tool health departments can use to transform their approach to building a workforce that has the cross-cutting capabilities needed for their communities to achieve their highest level of health. The Learning Agenda for Systems Change Toolkit 2.0 provides a framework for a new way of thinking for workforce development, connecting it to community health assessment data to ask the question: What does our workforce need to know or be able to do to change the conditions that hold our community challenges in place? The LASC Toolkit 2.0 offers an action-oriented, stepwise, and iterative process for health departments and their partners to use transformative learning as a driver for systems change.

The Learning Agenda for Systems Change provides a stepwise and yet iterative approach to collectively identifying the root causes of today’s complex challenges and developing a multi-level, multi-pronged learning approach to address conditions needed for systems change. Moreover, the Learning Agenda for Systems Change offers health departments an opportunity to advance their practice by better integrating existing assessment and planning efforts related to accreditation, including Community Health Assessments (CHAs), Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs), Strategic Plans, and Workforce Development Plans. If you’re ready to learn more and practice applying the Learning Agenda for Systems Change to workforce development planning, we hope you’ll join us!