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US DOL Awards Workforce Development Grants
July 06, 2007
The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $3 million in three-year grants to six organizations to prepare workers for careers in long-term care.
Award-winning organizations include:
Capital Workforce Partners of north central Connecticut, whose CNA Advancement Initiative will deliver training programs at the worksite and facilitate system changes to promote career pathway development for CNAs;
the Mississippi Hospital Association Health Research & Educational Foundation, which will recruit high school students into dual enrollment practical nurse programs with incremental certification as a CNA, recruitment into LTC jobs, and accelerated career paths for advanced education;
the University of Alaska in Anchorage, which will implement a Long-Term Care Apprenticeship Program across three regions of the state, via distance instruction and on-the-job learning, for direct service workers and certified nursing assistants in facilities and home-based care;
the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments, which will implement and coordinate a comprehensive direct care worker career pathway that meets the needs of all direct care providers with a career ladder/lattice of certified/credentialed training;
the Workforce Investment Boards of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties, N.Y., which will develop a regional Long Term Care Direct Care Worker On-the-Job Training Program to provide clinical and workplace skills for employees and new hires at all partner facilities, improving recruitment efforts, developing managerial skills, and more; and
Neosho Community College in Eastern Kansas, which will recruit new workers from two new labor pool populations—high school students and retired senior citizens—and implement strategies to retain incumbent CNAs.
Click here to read the DOL's press release.
Elise Nakhnikian
Communications Specialist
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
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