Spotlight on Your Funds

December 2024

Members’ Voices Headline the Benefit Funds’ 2025 Member Calendar

The Benefit Funds will soon release their 2025 member calendar featuring 1199SEIU participants in the monthly Members’ Voices video series. Each member’s calendar page includes a QR code that will link to their Members’ Voices video, in which they share why they began their health journey and encourage and inspire other members to get and stay healthy. The calendar also includes information about Benefit Funds services and programs, as well as healthy living information, resources and tips. The Benefit Funds will mail the calendar to Delegates and to members who participated in wellness programs in 2024. Members may request a copy or download the calendar by visiting the Benefit Funds website. Visit the Members’ Voices page to watch 2024 videos, as well as new videos each month of the members featured in the 2025 calendar.

Training and Employment Funds Hold Third Round of Career Pathways Training Program Orientations

The 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds (TEF) are offering the third in a series of orientations for members interested in receiving assistance through the New York State Career Pathways Training (CPT) Program. TEF is one of three organizations recently awarded a total of $646 million through the CPT Program to recruit and train healthcare workers in selected occupational shortage areas. The orientations—which begin December 3 and continue throughout the month, either remotely or in person—will focus on members interested in careers as licensed mental health counselors, social workers, credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Participants will learn more about the CPT Program and the educational financial support they may receive, such as tuition assistance, tutoring support services and job placement assistance. Members may visit MyTEF to view the schedule and to register.

Child Care Corporation Encourages Members to Register for 2025 Programs

The application periods for the 1199SEIU/Employer Child Care Corporation’s Anne Shore Sleep-Away Camp Program and the Joseph Tauber Scholarship Program (JTSP) are underway. The Anne Shore Sleep-Away Camp Program allows eligible children ages 9 to 15 to attend one- to four-week summer sleep-away camps with such offerings as sports, art, outdoor adventures and technology. Members can apply online via MyAccount through January 31, 2025. For more information, members may email AnneShoreCampProgram@1199Funds.org or call (212) 564-2220. The JTSP supports the academic goals of children of eligible members by awarding scholarships to those attending accredited undergraduate colleges and universities in the New York City metro area. Members whose children are or will be enrolled in college during the fall 2025/spring 2026 term can submit a request for an application on the JTSP website by January 31, 2025. 

The Institute for Continuing Education Presents Upcoming Programs

The 1199SEIU Greater New York Education Fund strengthens the healthcare delivery system by offering 1199SEIU members training and education programs designed to help improve patient outcomes and provide quality care. Please share these opportunities with members at your facility. (The full schedule is available on the program calendar.)

Advances in Stroke Care

Sunday, December 8

8:45 am to 4:30 pm

This interprofessional symposium will focus on the diagnosis and management of strokes, including the role of nutrition in stroke recovery, pharmacotherapy options for ischemic stroke, and the identification and treatment of different syndromes that develop after a stroke.  

For more information, visit the Institute for Continuing Education’s web page, call (212) 894-4390 or email Institute@1199Funds.org.

Meet Our Featured Member

Melissa Spells from Jamaica Hospital

Why did Melissa Spells begin her health journey? Read For Your Benefit online to find out!

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