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Strategic Skills Collaborative

Join a peer-to-peer virtual community dedicated to strengthening the public health workforce’s strategic skills

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Finding Joy at Work: How Wake County Public Health Is Building a More Resilient Workforce

Wake County used listening tours to guide wellness offerings, tailored clinical sessions with professional counselors and social workers, and programming built around what staff said brings them joy.

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Kentucky Uses PHIG to Give 61 Local Health Departments the Resources they Need to Serve Communities Well

Kentucky is expanding workforce capacity by allocating PHIG funds directly to local health departments and partnering with the Kentucky Health Departments Association on tuition assistance programs.

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How Louisville’s Health Dept. Hit an 85% Retention Rate

The Louisville Metro Dept. of Public Health used PHIG to collect, track, and act on data related to workforce needs, preferences & satisfaction. As a result, the department hit a retention rate of over 85%.

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Why the New Jersey Dept. of Health is Investing in Grant Writing and Evaluation Training

The New Jersey Department of Health is using PHIG to build foundational capabilities across the agency, specifically training staff to write grants independently and design effective program evaluations.

Image of Omolola "Lola" Taiwo the Executive Director of Performance Management and Quality Improvement and PHIG Evaluator at the New Jersey Department of Health