This Learning History illustrates lessons learned and strategic choices made throughout planning, start-up, and implementation of the Mid Michigan Partnership for Training in Healthcare (M-PaTH). The content and themes of these lessons are aggregated across the three areas in which M-PaTH operated, and reflect input from interviews with multiple partners and participants about their personal experiences with and reflections on M-PaTH. Additionally, many hours of observation of M-PaTH administration and operations – including recruitment, orientation, applicant interviews, program workshops, and committee meetings – also inform this document.
CSW developed the M-PaTH Learning History to help other communities, both in Michigan and beyond, prepare to address the complex and pressing needs of dislocated workers through strategic partnerships. Far from a prescriptive roadmap or evaluation of M-PaTH or any other specific program, this document instead attempts to help regions consider and navigate key program, partnership and policy issues involved in effectively serving and/or customizing service models for dislocated workers.