Workforce


Improving Health & Healthcare Through Education.

WNY R-AHEC provides workforce development for individuals and organizations. R-AHEC offers valuable training using AHEC’s knowledge, experience, and expertise in workforce development. WNY R-AHEC has more than 20 years of experience in workforce development and training facilitation across twenty-three counties in Western/Central NY. In 2006, R-AHEC received a “Center Award for Excellence” from the National AHEC Organization for its health professions and workforce training programs. R-AHEC is a recognized, neutral, regional facilitation resource capable of successful implementation of workforce training and is a conduit for reliable, timely information. Additionally, R-AHEC has been a recipient of eight Health Workforce Retraining Initiative (HWRI) awards from the NY State Department of Health (DOH) beginning in 2001.

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  • Flexible solutions and competitive pricing.  Affordable and customizable self-guided, in-person and virtual training options.
  • Personalized learning. A dedicated team with outside experts assists with targeting core competencies; closing skill gaps; addressing behavior changes; and delivering learning curricula.
  • Support. Continuing education support staff will work in collaboration with you or your company to develop, customize, and deliver high-quality training courses.
  • Award-winning and credible training. Learn from a non-profit organization with more than 20 years of experience in workforce development and training facilitation whose training is backed by professionals and provides New York State approved continuing education credits.

Watch the introduction video and then click the links below to access our entire course catalogue.

Western New York Rural Area Health Education Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0685 and for Physical Therapy as an approved provider of physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education.