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Stepping Up

What is Stepping Up?
Stepping Up is an innovative career ladders program that provides training, education, career coaching, and support services for entry-level workers at Rhode Island Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital and for low-income Providence residents. 

The goals of the program include:

  • Provide workers and residents with the tools and supports they need to create or advance in a health care career
  • Meet employer workforce shortage needs, particularly in the area of credentialed occupations with significant current and projected vacancies
  • Create a pipeline from the surrounding neighborhoods into health care jobs that enables neighborhood residents to access entry-level jobs and then to move up over time
  • Develop innovative practices that enhance the capacity of employers and workforce organizations to meet the needs of employees and low-income residents

Who is Stepping Up?
Stepping Up is a partnership between the UNAP/RI Hospital Health Care Education Trust and Women & Infants Hospital.  Other partners include Teamsters Local 251, Community College of RI, Insitute for Labor Studies, District 1199 SEIU, Lifespan Learning Institute, Dorcas Place, Genesis Center, RI Latino Professionals Association, United Way of RI, and Making Connections-Providence.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?
Then check out Stepping Up, a career ladder program for employees of RI Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital, as well as Providence neighborhood residents, who are interested in getting ahead at work by continuing their education and/or getting a new job in health care.  For more information contact Aime Brissette at 831-3647 or abrissette@steppingupri.org.

Stepping Up staff will help you:

  • Explore the many job options at RI Hospital
  • Determine what you need to get a new job
  • Develop a plan to learn new skills and/or return to school

Stepping Up services include:

career exploration - job shadowing - mentoring - job counseling
academic advising - financial aid planning - tutoring - internships

Stepping Up programs will include:

  • academic support to current nursing and radiology tech students
  • college prerequisites
  • refresher math and english classes
  • computer classes
  • foundation skills (medical terminology, teamwork, communication, etc)
  • job-specific classes
  • English-as-a-Second Language
  • High School Equivalency (GED) classes
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