SEIU Healthcare
Training Centre

The SEIU Healthcare Training Centre is a union-led education and workforce initiative powered by SEIU Healthcare, designed to strengthen the healthcare workforce by investing directly in the people who do the work.

About

SEIU Healthcare represents healthcare workers across Canada. Education and career pathways in healthcare can be complex and difficult to navigate.

The SEIU Healthcare Training Centre was created to support education, career pathways and workforce readiness across healthcare.

The Training Centre provides clear information, practical preparation, and skill development to help healthcare workers move forward in their careers. It supports a range of pathways across the healthcare system, including regulated professions and ongoing workforce preparation.

This work reflects SEIU Healthcare’s long-term commitment to supporting healthcare workers and strengthening the healthcare system by investing in people.

At its core, the Training Centre is built on a simple belief: a stronger healthcare system depends on workers who are supported to learn, grow, and lead.

Our Strategic Focus

The Training Centre is built as an integrated ecosystem, guided by three commitments that shape how education leads to lasting impact.

Educate

Deliver accessible, high-quality education and professional development that reflects the real conditions of healthcare work and supports career growth over time.

Integrate

Ensure education leads to opportunity – connecting learning to work through partnerships, pathways and alignment with the broader SEIU ecosystem and beyond to the health systems in need.

Empower

Provide the supports and learning environments people need to succeed, recognizing the whole learner and enabling completion, confidence, and long-term participation in the sector and long-term participation in the healthcare sector.

Together, these commitments ensure education is not an endpoint, but a lever for stability, transformation, and system-level change.

Leadership

The Training Centre is guided by leaders with deep experience in healthcare education, workforce development, and union-led systems change.

Tyler Downey

President, SEIU Healthcare Training Centre

Dr. Siobhan Bell

Senior Executive Director, SEIU Healthcare Training Centre

Felicia Samuel

Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, SEIU Training Centre.