Health Care

Workforce Updates

December 2022

Federal funding opportunity: DOL Nursing Expansion Grant Program

This funding opportunity will address bottlenecks in training the United States nursing workforce and expand and diversify the pipeline of qualified nursing professionals through two training tracks. 

1. The Nurse Education Professional Track will increase the number of clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators by training new or upskilling experienced current or former nurses (including retired nurses) into advanced postsecondary credentialing necessary for nurses to become clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators. 
2. The Nursing Career Pathway Track will train frontline health care professionals and paraprofessionals, including direct care workers, to advance along a career pathway and attain postsecondary credentials needed for middle- to high-skilled nursing occupations during the grant period of performance. Through the Nursing Career Pathway Track, grantees will develop training partnerships between clinical settings and education and training providers to support accelerated learning and expanded access to clinical residencies and specialty care rotations.

The application deadline is Jan. 6, 2023. Click here for the full grant notice.

Public workshop to explore aging population needs and health workforce

The National Academies' Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education is hosting a two-session workshop series, Addressing the Needs of an Aging Population through Health Professions Education and Implementation to explore the needs of the aging population, and an ideal health workforce to meet those needs in terms of numbers and skillset.

• Part 1, on Dec. 7 at 3 - 5 p.m. will discuss educating learners across the life course and understanding the importance of social determinants of health in health promotion and disease prevention.
• Part 2, on Dec. 8 at 9 - 11:30 a.m. will discuss preparing the health workforce for an aging population and building interprofessional programs to address the needs of older adults.

Click here to register for one or both sessions.

Webinar focuses on family caregivers of older adults with trauma

The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York is hosting Supporting Family Caregivers of Older Adults with a History of Trauma on Dec. 8 at 11 a.m. The webinar will discuss person-centered, trauma informed care.

Click here to register.

Virtual dementia education series underway

The final session of the Virtual Dementia Education Series for health care professionals, offered by the Alzheimer's Association Chapters of New York State and the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center will be held on Dec. 8 at noon. December's session is focused on Professional Spiritual Care and Dementia 

This session is approved for continuing education credits for social workers and 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM.

CCSI offering motivational interviewing training

On Dec. 8 at 9 a.m. - noon, CCSI is hosting Motivational Interviewing (MI): A Trauma-Responsive & Equitable "Way of Being" with Others. This 3-hour learning session will focus on the most recent books by William R. Miller, PhD. Those who have received previous training or coaching in MI, and/or those who are curious and want to deeply explore MI are invited to actively participate in this collaborative dialogue.

The session will be held at CCSI, 1099 Jay Street, Building J. 

Click here to learn more and to register.

Chamber to offer DEI Leadership Exchange Program in 2023

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Exchange is an exclusive space for diversity leaders in the Greater Rochester community to share ideas, skills, and strategies to shape business practices and create meaningful differences in their organizations and community. 

Participants must be DEI decision-makers at an organization in the Greater Rochester nine county region, and must be a Greater Rochester Chamber member. 

Click here to learn more.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Basics course offered for free in 2023

The New York State Association for Infant Mental Health is offering seven free sessions of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Basics. 

Each training session is comprised of two tracks: 

• Track 1, held on day 1 from 9 am - 4 pm and day 2 from 9 am - 12 pm, is for everyone who works with or on behalf of very young children, their families and caregivers.
• Track 2 is for those who support the workforce, including supervisors and administrators, coaches or consultants. Completion of Track 1 is a pre-requisite. Participants in Track 2 attend day 1, and stay for the afternoon of day 2.

Topics include:

• What is IECMH?
• What do we know about infant development? What kinds of relationships do babies and very young children need to become strong and secure?
• Attachment: The key to healthy Social-Emotional development.
• Trauma: It changes things – for children, families, and us!
• IECMH Best Practice Principles, and the NYS-AIMH Endorsement®. 

Courses are limited to 50 attendees. Click on the links below to register for specific dates.

• Jan. 19 and 20
• Feb. 16 and 17
• March 16 and 17
• May 18 and 19
• June 22 and 23
• Sept. 21 and 22
• Oct. 23 and 24

Public health workforce resources shared at APHA 2022 conference

A number of resources to support and enhance the public health workforce were shared at the recent American Public Health Association conference:

• The Public Health Workforce Calculator - for local health departments to estimate the number of full-time equivalents needed to deliver foundational public health services.
• ChangeLab Solutions Public Health Law Academy - to improve public health professionals' understanding of the use of law and policy to improve population health outcomes, including a free certificate program.
• Results from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), conducted by the de Beaumont Foundation and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO).
• New to Public Health residency program - University of Wisconsin - Madison offers a virtual cohort program for professionals in their first year of public health practice who are currently employed at a local, regional, tribal or state governmental public health agency. New cohorts are expected in February, May, August and November 2023.
• Performance management and workforce development resources from the Public Health Foundation.
• PublicHealthCareers.org - an informational site to introduce the variety of career opportunities in public health.

Health home care managers make a difference

A recent data review by Greater Rochester Health Home Network (GRHHN), an affiliate of FLPPS, and Lead Health Homes across New York state demonstrates their impact on the health and well-being of the individuals they serve across NYS.

The infographics above illustrate the significant impact that the GRHHN network of care managers have by connecting individuals to primary care and assisting individuals who were homeless to secure, safe, and stable housing.

These outcomes are critical to addressing health inequities within the Finger Lakes region and ensuring access to health care services. 

HHS workforce webinar recording now available

A recording is now available for a recent webinar hosted by the Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families entitled Promising Practices: A Discussion on Human Services Workforce. The webinar features expert panelists discussing promising practices and examples of how human service leaders are addressing shortages and building support for agency-wide workforce partners.

Click here to watch.

Health workforce data available from HRSA

The Federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) provides data and dashboards on health workforce programs, including Health Workforce Shortage Areas, Health Workforce Projections and an updated Nursing Workforce Dashboard.

Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals available now

The Public Health Training Centers, in partnership with the National Network of Public Health Institutes, has developed Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals that can be used in developing racial justice education training. The development of these competencies is consistent with agencies across the country declaring racism a public health issue, and expressing interest in ongoing health equity and racial justice training.

Please share your health care workforce updates

If you have a training opportunity or workforce update you'd like us to share, you can send it to melissa.pennise@commongroundhealth.org, and we will add it to the next newsletter.

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