In partnership with other mission-driven organizations, Dwyer Workforce Development’s Healthcare Villages initiative helps individuals who lack opportunity successfully pursue life-changing careers in the healthcare industry. The purpose of the initiative is to reduce the personal challenges many of our Dwyer Scholars face that limit their ability to transition to permanent healthcare jobs and lead stable financial lives.
How do our Healthcare Villages accomplish this goal? It’s simple.
Dwyer Workforce Development uses critical workforce interventions to construct our purpose-driven Healthcare Villages. These Villages provide a robust offering of services to our Dwyer Scholars and their families, including housing assistance, childcare support, and resource centers for training use and associated programming.
We offer multi-income housing options as a workforce intervention. This can include:
Housing assistance will be available to Dwyer Scholars for up to two years while they are actively engaged in the Dwyer Scholar program.
Dwyer Workforce Development partners with childcare centers already operating in close proximity to our Healthcare Villages and within our Dwyer Scholars’ communities.
The childcare centers will serve Dwyer Scholars who reside in the multi-income housing as well as those who live in the community.
The resource centers within our Healthcare Villages allow us to conduct intake screenings, ongoing Dwyer Scholar assessments, and counseling sessions. Dwyer Scholars can connect with local outreach coordinators from their community as a primary point of engagement during their career journeys.
Additionally, the resource centers will serve as a venue for Dwyer Scholar events and to assist them with accessing community benefit programs, applying for government assistance, and utilizing necessary services such as legal, tax, and financial literacy.
Community support can make a world of difference in someone’s life—and that’s exactly what our Healthcare Villages aim to do. Working with our partners and host communities, Dwyer Workforce Development serves as a meaningful and foundational partner to help transform more lives in more places. Our Healthcare Villages model is designed with intentional “committed flexibility” so that we can adapt and follow our host community’s needs and challenges as they evolve over time.
Dwyer Workforce Development selects partners and host communities for our Healthcare Villages by concentrating on areas:
We’re currently in the process of establishing several Healthcare Villages in our service areas—but we’re always looking for the opportunity to add more locations to the map!
West Baltimore
In Partnership with Ames Memorial UMC – Ames Shalom Community, Inc.
East Baltimore
In Partnership with the Mary Harvin Transformation Center Community Development Corporation
In Partnership with the Southern Streams Health and Wellness Center and Southern Baptist Church
