3.2.4. Time and Planning Constraints

UIC TA providers noted some of the challenges related to the tight HWC timeline, both in terms of what content could be covered in the sessions and in terms of limitations in time to plan the sessions. Several UIC TA providers shared the challenges that stemmed from working within a time-bound grant structure, in which funds allocated to activities such as the HWC needed to be spent down within a short time frame. This presented problems with HWC planning, limiting UIC TA providers' abilities to engage labor expert TA providers in much of the planning in advance of the meetings themselves:

*"* ... *ultimately we only had so much time to devote to developing this curriculum and structuring these meetings that there are certain things with the curriculum that I think we may have done di*ff*erently that would facilitate learning in a di*ff*erent way. I wonder if we had brought in all of the* ... *if they had the capacity to do this, if we had brought in all of the TA providers from the get go to develop a curriculum in a more collaborative way."—UIC TA provider.*
