December 2021 Work Force Newsletter

Health Care

Workforce Updates

December 2021

Career pathway program aims to launch more than 550 students in healthcare and social services fields

Through its System Transformation and Community Investment Program, Finger Lakes Performing Provider System (FLPPS) is partnering with Monroe Community College (MCC) and other community colleges and partners in the region in establishing a sustainable model for long-term career pathways that expand the healthcare workforce pool and provide opportunities for more diverse individuals to achieve economic mobility.

Starting in spring 2022, the two-year program will take place at five SUNY community colleges: Cayuga, Corning, Finger Lakes, Genesee, and Monroe. Students will receive mentoring and case management services at each college in collaboration with Action for a Better Community to increase success and completion rates. Students will also be connected to community resources — including services for housing, transportation, and childcare — to support their basic needs so that they can focus on their academic and career goals. The colleges will work with BOCES, Hillside, Catholic Family Center, PathStone, area school districts, and other workforce programs to build a recruitment pathway for students from under-served areas.

New program focuses on primary care
and behavioral health in Latino neighborhoods

His Branches Community Health Center, Ibero-American Action League, and
Finger Lakes Performing Provider System (FLPPS) are collaborating to address health and health care disparities among the Latino population in the City of Rochester; disparities that have been highlighted and intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are approximately 3,000 families in the Upper Falls, South Market View Heights, and Beechwood communities that need better access to primary and behavioral health services. His Branches will create access to these services by hiring bilingual providers, nurses, and case managers, and provide mental health services in the same location as primary care. Ibero will coordinate care with His Branches by conducting outreach to its clients and connecting individuals to these services at His Branches.

To build their new care team, His Branches is currently accepting applications for bilingual providers, nurses, and case managers.

Click here for more information or to apply for a position at His Branches.

Family Caregiver Initiative seeks to reimagine respite care for family caregivers

Funded by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation and Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, Exhale, The Family Caregiver Initiative, is a training and grant opportunity coming soon to Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Wyoming and Monroe counties.

Exhale is an opportunity for businesses and organizations to work together to find innovative solutions that give caregivers an opportunity to breathe a little easier. In a short series of virtual workshops, those interested in developing a project will receive free training in creative problem solving and project management, as well as a stipend of $500 for participation and a chance to explore this opportunity for further funding. The workshop series begins January 5, 2022.

An information session will be held on December 16 at 11 AM. 

Click here to learn more and to register for the full workshop series. 

Governor Hochul announces Nurses for our Future Scholarship

Governor Kathy Hochul announced the Nurses for our Future Scholarship, to cover tuition for 1,000 new healthcare workers to get RNs at SUNY and CUNY. The program is an effort to help address the shortage in healthcare workers in hospitals around the state.

Click here to read the full press release.

HRSA funding available for dental clinical educator career development

Funding is available to support academic career development of dental faculty (DDS, DMD, DH) who teach primary care dentistry or primary care physicians (MD, DO) who focus their teaching on the integration of oral health in primary care.

A technical assistance webinar will be held on Thursday, December 16 at 1-2:30 PM. Applications are due February 14, 2022.

Click here to read the notice of funding opportunity.

HRSA funding available for Regional Public Health Training Centers

Regional Public Health Training Centers seek to develop current and future public health leaders though Leadership Institutes. Moreover, the program aims to establish and enhance collaborative partnerships among state and local health departments, primary care providers, and related organizations (to include non-traditional partners) as they work together to address critical local public health needs.

Applications are due January 24, 2022.

Click here to learn more.

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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