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Start with the entry point that fits. Or bring us the gap and we can design something together.
Start With the Opportunity
Real-world experience around the programs you already have.
Workforce entry pathways
For organizations that already have education, training or community programs — but need more ways for people to gain meaningful experience around them.
This is not another standalone program. It adds an experience layer around what already exists.
Explore — entry-level experience
Give participants a practical way to see how community-health and healthcare work happens in real settings. Experiences can include observation, supervised support activities, service-day participation and exposure to different roles and work environments.
Build — structured OJT
Move participants from exposure into structured on-the-job learning with clear expectations, increasing responsibility and documented experience. A Workforce Experience Passport can track completed experiences, skills, readiness milestones and next-step opportunities.
Advance — next-step pathways
Help participants connect experience to what comes next, whether that is an apprenticeship, additional credential, continued study or a more advanced work opportunity aligned with their longer-term goals.
DEFINE THE OPPORTUNITY
Start with one population, one goal and one opportunity you want more people to reach. Keep the first pilot narrow enough to learn from quickly.
A college and local employers identify 20 students who are academically on track but have no meaningful work exposure.
Instead of a traditional internship, PinnWell coordinates a six-week rotating field experience where students spend one day each with a clinic, community organization, employer and mobile service team.
By the end, each student has documented exposure to multiple roles and a clearer next-step pathway..
PinnWell readiness gateway
For organizations that prepare people for opportunities but still see participants stall between training and actual placement.
The gateway coordinates readiness requirements that can delay internships, apprenticeships, clinical placements, programs and employment.
What the readiness gateway coordinates
The gateway focuses on the practical requirements that can slow down movement from training into placement. Depending on the pathway, that may include screenings, physicals, fingerprinting, documentation, record expungement, driver’s license restoration, credential steps, scheduling, referrals and other readiness requirements.
How the readiness gateway works
Requirements → Access → Delivery → Tracking → Ready.
PinnWell helps identify what is required, coordinates access to qualified providers and tracks where participants are in the process. Participating providers complete services within their scope.
Choose one pathway and map the steps that regularly slow people down between training and placement. Focus on the requirements the organization can influence or coordinate.
An employer has 60 open entry-level healthcare and support roles, while a nearby training program has 35 graduates. The problem is not training — it is the last 10%: missing physicals, fingerprinting, screenings, CPR renewals, transportation and paperwork.
PinnWell creates a 48-hour clearance pathway that bundles those requirements into one coordinated process and tracks how many candidates become fully eligible for hire.
Looking for a way to give back?
Explore PinnWell’s community-impact and philanthropy initiatives, including the ScreenWell Fund and ONE MORE Pledge.
Bring services closer
For organizations that know what their population needs, but the traditional service location is part of the problem.
Community access brings essential services into the places people already are — workplaces, campuses, community organizations, agencies and other trusted settings.
Where community access can happen
Services can be brought into workplaces, campuses, community organizations, agencies, courts and other trusted settings where people already gather. The goal is to reduce the extra travel, scheduling and coordination that can become a barrier to participation.
Possible delivery models
Models can include recurring access days, pop-up services, onsite screening and readiness events, mobile provider access, virtual connections and coordinated local fulfillment. A pilot can start with one service or population before expanding frequency, geography or service mix.
Choose one population, one recurring access barrier and one service that could be brought closer. Test a small delivery model before expanding frequency, geography or service mix.
A county court has participants spread across three rural communities, but only one approved testing location.
PinnWell identifies qualified providers within the service area, activates two mobile collection points on rotating days, coordinates scheduling and eligibility rules, and routes each participant to the closest available option.
The court sees one coordinated process while services are fulfilled through multiple local providers.
Extend What Already Works
For organizations that already have strong programs, practitioners or community relationships and want to reach more people without rebuilding the operating infrastructure themselves.
The partner keeps the program, brand, relationships and expertise. PinnWell helps make the model easier to extend.
What stays with the partner
The partner keeps ownership of its program, brand, relationships, expertise and core service model. PinnWell is not designed to replace what is already working; the role is to make that work easier to extend into additional locations, populations or delivery settings.
What PinnWell can coordinate
PinnWell can help organize provider and practitioner availability, scheduling and deployment, partner or site onboarding, mobile or virtual delivery, local fulfillment and visibility into how the program is being used across locations.
Related: PinnWell Provider Network • PinnWell Mobile App
Select one existing offering that would benefit from being available in another setting. Define what must remain with the partner and what PinnWell can coordinate, then test one portable or multi-site version.
A community organization has a successful behavioral-health support program in Grand Haven but wants to offer it in Muskegon and rural Ottawa County without opening new locations.
PinnWell helps convert the program into a portable delivery model by onboarding qualified local practitioners, coordinating host sites, managing scheduling and participant intake, and tracking utilization across locations.
The organization keeps its program, curriculum and brand; PinnWell provides the infrastructure that lets it travel.
Start With the Gap
Not every useful partnership fits a predefined model.
If your organization is facing an access, workforce, readiness or delivery challenge that does not fit one of the pathways above, PinnWell can work with you to design an approach around the population, problem and resources already in place.
When a custom partnership makes sense
A custom approach may fit when the challenge spans more than one service, requires coordination across multiple organizations, or does not fit neatly into an existing program model. The starting point is the gap: who is getting stuck, where it happens and what resources are already available.
Build something together
We can explore opportunities that connect education, community-based experience, service delivery and workforce readiness within one shared pathway. That can include defining partner roles, coordinating access points, identifying providers and testing a small pilot before expanding.
Related: Start with PinnWell • About PinnWell
Bring us one clearly defined gap. We’ll map the people, partners, services and delivery model around it and identify a practical place to start.
A college, behavioral-health organization, employer and community partner jointly create a “next opportunity” network for young adults who are not moving cleanly from school into work.
A participant may enter through any partner, and PinnWell coordinates the next best step — training, field experience, credentialing, support services or employment — without requiring them to restart the process at each organization.
Looking for a way to give back?
Explore PinnWell’s community-impact and philanthropy initiatives, including the ScreenWell Fund and ONE MORE Pledge.
Bridging the last mile between systems and the people they serve.
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