SCRANTON, PA — Tiffany Jackson, organizational development director at the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, recently completed the 2023 Northeastern Pennsylvania Workforce Leadership Academy and joins alumni of the program as members of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunity Fellows Network.

The Scranton Area Community Foundation, in partnership with the Aspen Institute and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, hosted the Workforce Leadership Academy. The 10-month peer-learning community brought 22 fellows from Lackawanna and Luzerne counties to a series of retreats, workshops and action-learning projects. The regional program aims to create system changes in the workforce development field.

Fellows worked with leading practitioners throughout the country to deepen networks; strengthen systems leadership skills; apply race, equity and system change frameworks to their work; and to increase their understanding of effective strategies and programs, a Wright Center spokesperson wrote.

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Workforce Leadership Academy is one of eight national academies that were launched in 2023. As an alumnus of the academy, Jackson joins fellows from 14 previous academies in 11 cities in the United States and Canada. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy organization based in Washington, D.C.

The Wright Center for Community Health operates 10 primary and preventive care practices in Northeast Pennsylvania, including a mobile medical and dental unit called Driving Better Health. Its practices offer integrated whole-person care, meaning patients typically can go to a single location to access medical, dental and behavioral health care. It also offers community-based addiction treatment and recovery services. 

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education is one of the nation’s largest Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net consortiums that are funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. It develops the physician workforce in eight residency and fellowship programs.

For more information about the Wright Center, go to TheWrightCenter.org or call 570/230-0019.