Upskilling for Healthcare Professionals
Equitable Health Impacts: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
You’re already working at the forefront of healthcare. Now you can expand your impact and build on your experience with new tools to advocate for patients and continue to develop practices centered on the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Innovate and Elevate Your Healthcare Skillset
Frontline healthcare workers are continually asked to do more with less, requiring new skillsets to better handle an ever-evolving environment. Offered at no cost to Californians, Upskilling for Equitable Health Impacts: DEI is comprised of two concurrent courses that build on healthcare professionals’ understanding and experience with DEI and provide sector-specific training. As communities across California continually shift, the environment and delivery of healthcare services will change with them — and an active understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion will be paramount at the personal, departmental, and organizational levels.
Expand Your Healthcare Impact
Advance your career and benefit the communities you serve. Enroll today!
Training Program Pathway:
Upskilling for Equitable Health Impacts: DEI
This is a flexibly paced, non-credit, and competency-based program. Upon completion, you’ll earn a Calbright Certificate of Competency and may be eligible to earn continuing education units through your professional associations.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Healthcare Setting
- Personal awareness and managing blindspots
- Compassion, empathy, and curiosity
- Creating an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Appreciating challenges and differences to advance a culture of health
Upskilling Practical Applications
- Engage in real-world scenarios through structured learning activities
- Demonstrate effective listening, conflict resolution, and collaboration skills to advance healthcare solutions
- Apply your experience and skills from the first course!
Note: While Calbright programs are flexibly paced, enrollment agreements are limited in duration.
Students are enrolled in successive 6-month terms for a maximum program length of three years.
Tuition-Free Programs
Our online community college is currently tuition free for residents of California, over the age of 18, with a high school diploma or GED.
Certificate in Less Than One Year
We measure progress by the skills you’ve mastered — not by how many hours you’ve spent in the classroom — so you can move at the speed that’s right for you. With consistent time and progress, students can complete the Equitable Health Impacts: DEI program in as little as 10 weeks.
Academic and Career Support
In addition to tutoring and academic support, our career services team can help you prepare for your job search, from practicing interviews and refining your resume to virtual events with employers and industry professionals.
FAQs
Who can be a student at Calbright?
Calbright is open to all California residents aged 18 years or older who have a high school diploma or GED equivalent.
All Californians — regardless of immigration status — are welcome to enroll.
It is really free? How?
Yes! All of our programs are currently free thanks to public funding from the State of California. That includes program tuition, testing costs, and technology resources like laptops and WiFi devices from our lending library.
Because our programs are free, we don’t need to offer financial aid.
Why should I attend Calbright?
First, our training programs prepare you to earn industry-recognized certifications (via exams offered by third-party providers like CompTIA and Salesforce), proof to employers that you’re ready to succeed in a new career on day one of employment.
Second, every student that completes a program also gets a dedicated team of professional experts that will coach you to be the best version of yourself during your job search.
Third, all of our courses are flexibly-paced and 100% online — designed around your own unique life circumstances so school never gets in the way of other priorities.
Plus, Calbright comes at no out-of-pocket cost to you. Even the cost of the exams to receive industry-recognized certifications (such as the CompTIA A+, Security+, and Salesforce Certified Administrator exams) in your program of choice are covered.
We also offer resources that include (but are not limited to) technology support through our Chromebook and WiFi hotspot lending library; career counseling; and mental health services. All this and more make Calbright a great choice if you’re looking to level up your skillset.
What job training programs do you offer? What makes them unique?
We currently have five online, flexibly-paced training programs: IT Support, Medical Coding*, Cybersecurity, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform Administration, and Equitable Health Impacts: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
These programs are the first of many, with each fitting into wraparound services designed to prepare you for success in the job market.
*Please note that we are currently not accepting new applications into the Medical Coding program.
What kind of time commitment should I expect as a Calbright student?
That depends on you and the pace you want to set, but all of our courses are designed to be completed in the shortest time possible — generally under a year. Your specific estimated time of completion will be determined when you meet with your Academic Success Counselor to develop your Comprehensive Student Education Plan (CSEP).
You can expect complete a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) certificate in less than six months with an average weekly commitment of 6-12 hours.
For our IT and Cybersecurity programs, expect to complete your certificate in eight to ten months, assuming the same weekly commitment of 6-12 hours.
With consistent time and progress, you could complete the Equitable Health Impacts: DEI program in as little as 10 weeks.
How long does it take to enroll and start classes?
Starting an application is easy! If you’re ready to begin your journey with us, click here. If you still have questions or would like to get in contact another way, you’ve got plenty of options.
You can always reach out to success@calbright.org and someone from our team will get back with you via email ASAP.
You can also use the webchat function on our homepage, call us at 1-833-956-0225, or text us at (510) 330-1817.