May 2021 Work Force Newsletter

Health Care

Workforce Updates

May 2021

Virtual workforce lunch and learn planned

Common Ground Health invites you to attend one of two lunch and learn webinars in June, presented in partnership with MCC. We will share results from the 27-county regional health care workforce skills and competencies survey and information about MCC's health career pathway analysis. The sessions are meant for leaders in education, community based organizations and health care and will end with a brief discussion and Q&A.

The webinars are offered  at 12 - 12:45 PM on June 8 and June 29. Both dates will cover the same content. 

Click here to view the agenda and register for one of the sessions.

A webinar link will be shared after registration.

FLPPS Learning Management System is available

We’re excited to announce that FLPPS is now opening up their Learning Management System (LMS) as a service and community asset.

The FLPPS LMS now has over 150 training courses as a resource to the community. Some popular topics include: Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, Leading Virtual Teams, Preventing Sexual Harassment for Employees in New York, Unconscious Bias, Care Management courses, links to CPI and OASAS courses and so many more!

Did you know that a Learning Management System can transform an organization by:

• Providing a centralized location for all trainings
• Reducing staff time and cost by offering consistent, efficient training
• Allowing online learning to be accessed on-demand, using any device
• Delivering instructor-led training, webinars, videos, interactive content, assessments and attestations
• Making it easy to assign and track training completions
• Consolidating training records from both internal and external systems
• Storing certifications, eliminating manual recording and tracking
• Providing program, job, and board related courses and curriculum
• Allowing you to apply for grants that require formal training tracking and reporting
• Providing reporting for compliance and audits

To learn more about how FLPPS can provide training expertise or set up a demo, email learning@flpps.org.

Health literacy series scheduled

Sponsored by the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center, Ithaca College is offering a free, online professional development series on health literacy. Remaining topics in the series include:

• Building a health literate organization (10 AM May 19)
• Best practices for telemedicine (10 AM June 9)
• Effective cross-cultural communication (10 AM June 16)

Click here for more information and to register. 

Disability intersectionality series set

Starbridge is hosting four virtual workshops on intersectionality. The first session, Intersectionality, Not a Trend but Reality, is led by Luticha Doucette and will introduce the concept of intersectionality and how disability impacts identity and vice versa.

This free event will be held at 12 - 1 PM May 20.

Click here to register. 

Developmental disabilities fellowship recruiting now

The University of Rochester’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program is a training program funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Human Resources and Services Administration. LEND trains future leaders and advocates in the field of developmental disabilities, who value interdisciplinary, person-centered care and partnership. One of 52 programs in the U.S., and the only program serving upstate New York, UR LEND is known for its work in the areas of disability education, advocacy, and policy. The fellowship has recently expanded its focus to include specialty training for self- and family-advocates, who serve as leaders and help educate others about disability rights and policy decisions that affect the lives of people with disabilities.

Annually UR LEND trains 18 to 24 fellows within 13 disciplines including: advocacy, audiology, dentistry, education, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, public health, speech and language therapy, and social work.

The 2021-2022 LEND cohort will start in August. 

Click here to learn more and apply for this opportunity.

Women of color summit to take place

Eleversity is offering a 4-session Women of Color Summit to engage in discussions designed to address systemic barriers, inequities and disparities for women of color. This year's theme, Healing, Restoration and Resilience will reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing inequities by race, ethnicity and income.

Sessions cost $50 each (or $160 for all 4 sessions) and will be held via Zoom on June 3, 10, 17 and 24. 

Click here to learn more and to register. 

Chamber offers successful supervision training

In July the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is offering a 5-week virtual training on successful supervision. Topics covered in this training include:

• Supervisors' roles and responsibilities
• Achieving performance goals
• Problem solving and decision making
• Delegation and positive accountability

Course sessions will be held 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM on July 13, 15, 20, 22 and 27.

Click here to learn more and to register.

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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