Healing Communities Through Workforce: Where Energy, Health, and Affordability Converge

About This Webinar

Families across America face an impossible tradeoff every month: pay the energy bill or pay the medical co-pay. Run the AC during a heat wave or buy asthma medication. These aren’t separate crises — they collide in the same household budget.

In this inaugural session of JPI Group’s webinar series, four cross-sector leaders explored a powerful idea: that workforce development is healing infrastructure — the connective tissue between energy affordability, public health outcomes, and economic mobility.

The conversation went deep on what integrated energy-health-workforce programs look like in practice, how to braid funding across silos, and how to measure impact beyond job placements — including healthcare cost avoidance, energy burden reduction, and household economic mobility.

What You’ll Learn

• How energy burden shows up in health outcomes — and in institutional costs
• Cross-sector collaboration models that work beyond pilot projects
• Strategies for building local talent pipelines that serve both energy and healthcare needs
• Approaches to braiding utility, healthcare, and workforce funding streams
• How to measure impact beyond placements — economic mobility, health improvements, and reduced energy burden
• Real examples from programs in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, and Chicago

Who Should Watch

This webinar is built for leaders in utility workforce development, energy efficiency program management, healthcare workforce strategy, public health and population health, workforce development boards, community-based organizations, and state energy and labor agencies. If your work touches the intersection of energy, health, and workforce — this conversation is for you.