Policy & Research Initiative
Minnesota Youth Healthcare Pathways
Examining the policy and regulatory landscape for young people in healthcare careers across Minnesota.
A policy and legal research initiative of The Marmon Foundation. This track explores state-level questions about youth participation in healthcare — age requirements, education pathways, licensing barriers, and structural gaps that affect when and how young people can begin healthcare careers in Minnesota.
A research initiative of The Marmon Foundation — in development
What this initiative examines.
Minnesota Youth Healthcare Pathways focuses on the policy-level questions that sit above individual job listings — the structural and regulatory environment.
Regulatory landscape
How state law, licensing boards, and institutional policies shape when young people can enter healthcare roles — and where barriers exist.
Education pathways
The intersection of K-12 education, career and technical education (CTE), post-secondary enrollment options, and healthcare credentialing in Minnesota.
Comparative research
How Minnesota's approach to youth healthcare workforce development compares to other states — and what models produce earlier, stronger pathways.
Grounded in the Pathways Project.
This policy research builds directly on the Rochester Youth Healthcare Pathways Project's verified findings — the data on what's available to young people in Rochester informs the policy questions this initiative asks at the state level.
StatusMinnesota Youth Healthcare Pathways is a research initiative in development. It is not proposed legislation, and no bill has been introduced. The informal working title "The Marmon Act" refers to this research track's conceptual direction, not any filed or pending legislation.