April 2024 Work Force Newsletter

Health Care

Workforce Updates

April 2024

Workforce Consortium to feature Center for Health Workforce Studies

The spring 2024 meeting of the Regional Consortium on Health Care Workforce will feature a presentation by Dr. Robert Martiniano, senior program manager at the Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany School of Public Health. Dr. Martiniano's presentation will highlight new data on:

• Recruitment and retention
• Registered Nurse Education programs
• Registered Nurse Burnout
• Health Profession Shortage Areas

The meeting will be held on April 19 at 1 - 3 p.m.

If you would like to attend this meeting, please email Kira Jackson with the subject line "April Consortium meeting" to receive the meeting invitation.

National Health Service Corps accepting Scholarship Program applications

The National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program is accepting applications until April 25, 2024.

Eligible students must be pursuing primary care training leading to a degree in medicine, dentistry, or a postgraduate degree or postgraduate certificate from a school or program in nurse midwifery education, physician assistant education, or nurse practitioner education. In exchange for scholarship support, participants must serve a minimum two years of service at a National Health Service Corps-approved site in a Health Professional Shortage Area.

Click here to learn more.

Discover health care careers with the FLPPS Health Careers Now website

FLPPS launched their Health Careers Now website in an effort to help strengthen and ensure there is a skilled and sufficient healthcare workforce in the Finger Lakes Region. Learn more about careers in peer advocacy or long-term care, and browse LTC job openings in the Finger Lakes Region.

Call for Presenters for NYSARH Rural Health Symposium is open

The New York State Association for Rural Health is accepting proposals for presentations for the 2024 Rural Health Symposium, to be held on Thursday and Friday, September 18-19 at the Holiday Inn, Binghamton.

The symposium strives to provide practical and meaningful information on current trends that influence the ability of communities to provide and/or access quality and affordable health care for rural New Yorkers. Presentations should specifically address rural circumstances on the following themes selected by the planning team: aging, climate change, cultural competency, developing future leaders, rural health careers, social care networks, and substance use.

Proposals are due April 30, 2024.

RochesterWorks seeks employer partners for ROC Your Job program

RochesterWorks is looking for additional employers to partner with for the ROC Your Job youth after school employment program. Participating employers can expect:

• 100% of the cost of employee wages covered by RochesterWorks.
• Support of Monitors/Job Coaches to support the placement.

To learn more, please see the Intern Request Form FAQs for employers or providers. To request an intern, submit the Intern Request Form. 

Interested employers in need of further assistance can contact Delia Smith by email at dsmith@rochesterworks.org or calling (585) 258-3500 ext. 5232. 

Alzheimer's Association accepting grant applications to enhance respite care

The Alzheimer’s Association is accepting applications for the Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI) Grant. The CDRI is a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to making respite service providers (adult day centers, in-home services, innovative models) more dementia-capable and provide the best person-centered care possible. 

Beginning in June 2024, the CDRI will provide a maximum of 20 grants totaling $4 million annually for the next five years to respite providers. Providers can learn more and apply at alz.org/CDRI. Applications are due on May 1.

Chamber offers Athena Leadership Training

The Greater Rochester Chamber is offering Athena Leadership Training programs. With separate classes for both men and women, this 10-month virtual ATHENA leadership training course is designed to ignite leaders through inspirational training programs that meet individuals where they are in their leadership journey and usher them into a new paradigm of self-discovery. The ATHENA Leadership Institute™ offers inspiring, empathy-based programs for community and organizational leaders as well as emerging leaders looking to grow personally and professionally. 

Register by April 5. Leadership training for men. Leadership training for women.

SUNY Corning offers team productivity training

On Tuesday, April 9 at 9 a.m. - noon, SUNY Corning Community College is offering Best Practices for Team Productivity. Workshop participants will explore their approach to teamwork and how to shape new behaviors. Participants will complete a free DiSC assessment prior to the training and use these results to understand how to improve as a teammate. Through knowledge-sharing about the roles of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Result in improving team productivity, participants will engage in active learning throughout this session.

This training costs $175.00 and will be held at Corning Community College Airport Corporate Park Campus. Businesses in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben interested in seeking funding to send promising leaders from their organizations to this training should contact CSS Workforce NY at 607-937-8337.

RRH & URMC collaborate for Black maternal health event

Collaborative Efforts to Improve Black Maternal Health will be held on April 11 at 7:30 a.m. - noon at Riedman Training Center and online. Keynote speaker, Jennie Joseph, will deliver "Operationalizing Perinatal Equity, Quality and Safety in Materno-Toxic Zones - Every Person, Every Time."

This hybrid event is for doulas, midwives, obstetricians, gynecologists, and community members working to improve maternal health. 

Click here to register.

ROCTalent Summit to be held April 16

The Rochester Chapter of the Association for Talent Development will host its ROCTalent Summit on April 16 at 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hilton Inn in Rochester. Topics include: virtual connection skills and strategies, AI and technology, leadership, DEI strategies & wellbeing.

ChangeLab Solutions webinar focuses on policy approaches to support mental health workforce

This webinar will cover challenges that master’s-level providers experience in entering and remaining in the behavioral health care field. Panelists will explore key policy levers that can be used to support and expand the workforce — for example, provider credentialing processes, licensing boards, license portability processes, workforce expansion incentives, network adequacy requirements, and postgraduate training. The speakers will also offer insight into health care models, such as value-based care, that can effectively integrate behavioral health in health care settings.

The webinar will be held on April 17 at noon. Click here to register.

SJFU Center for Nonprofit Leadership to host training on employee retention

On April 18 at 8 - 9:30 a.m., the Center for Nonprofit Leadership will host "Cultivating Commitment: Nurturing Organizational Culture for Long-Term Employee Retention." This training will cover strategies for creating a motivating workplace, recognizing and addressing employee stress, and implementing effective communication practices.

To register, contact Melanie Phillips at mphillips@sjf.edu or 585-899-3769.

Disability employment summit focuses on inclusion

RochesterWorks, Finger Lakes Works and ACCES-VR are hosting a series for employers on creating a more inclusive workplace for people with disabilities. A Disability Employment Summit will take place on April 23 at 9 a.m. - noon at Finger Lakes Community College, featuring:

• Jeffrey Tamburo, Northeast ADA Center, Yang Tan Institute of Employment & Disability, Cornell University - "Making the Business Case: Disability Inclusion as a Business Engagement Strategy"
• Julia Rood, ACCES-VR - "Deaf Culture"
• Terry Martin, Voila Technology - "Assistive Technology in the Workplace"

Click here to register for this free event.

Registration is open for Speak Life! Health Equity Conference

Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy launches oral health workforce project

On March 14, The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy launched The Future Oral Health Workforce Project: Oral Health Equity Through Workforce Design. The recording and slides from the kickoff webinar are available on the project's webpage: Oral Health Workforce | SCAANY

If you have an interest in oral health access issues, please take a moment to complete a stakeholder survey to inform the project.

If you would like to sign up for future emails regarding webinars and events for this project, please email oralhealth@scaany.org.

Causewave offering grants capacity building initiative to nonprofits

With support provided by the Rochester Area Community Foundation and the Greater Rochester Health Foundation, Causewave Community Partners is offering free grant writing support to small and mid-sized nonprofits.

Click here to learn more about this new initiative.

Thompson Health announces FLCC nursing scholarships

UR Medicine Thompson Health is offering a new scholarship for second-year nursing students at FLCC. Students must complete an application and an interview with Thompson's nursing leadership. Scholarship recipients must agree to work for the health system for two years after graduation.

Click here to learn more.

NYSDOL offers Educator Career Development Ambassador Program

To support the design and implementation of career-readiness curricula statewide, the New York State Department of Labor in partnership with the New York State Education Department launched the first New York State Department of Labor Educator Career Development Ambassador Program, a four-week paid summer training for teachers, librarians, and counselors in Grades 6 to 12 to develop, implement, and deliver 21st century career-readiness curricula or strategies to New York’s students.

More information and a link to the application for this summer's cohort can be found at this link. Applications are due on May 1.

Workplace wellness toolkit available

The National Association of Community Health Centers has a Workforce Wellness Toolkit that draws on principles of trauma-informed care & offers specific clinic practices that support workers to better regulate their nervous systems and resist the real threats of moral injury and burnout.

The toolkit offers sample workflow changes, emails, meeting agendas, and brief individual and team exercises that health centers can download, customize, and integrate into day-to-day clinic life.

NYS Area Health Education Center presents health equity series with continuing education credits

Western NY Rural AHEC offers teen-led professional development for providers

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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