| Category: Creating/Expanding the Vision of Youth for Health Careers |
| Project 09 K12-02: |
High School Health Science Education |
| Project 09 K12-04: |
Connecting Classroom and Careers |
| Project 09 K12-06: |
Training Teenage Parents/Pathways |
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| Category: Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Healthcare Workforce |
| Project DIV-02: |
CNA Training for White Earth Reservation |
| Project DIV-04: |
Jump Start Initiative |
| Project DIV-07: |
Project for Pride in Living |
| Project DIV-07: |
Bilingual Healthcare Program for Latinos |
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| Category: Developing/implementing programs/projects to provide advancement opportunities for the incumbent healthcare workforce |
| Project 09 WF-02: |
Health Support Specialist Program |
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| Category: Developing new curricula and/or programs to meet current and future healthcare workforce needs |
| Project CD-02: |
Medical Assistant Program |
| Project CD-03: |
Nursing Curriculum - Simulation |
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| Category: Creating/Expanding the Vision of Youth for Health Careers |
| Project: |
09 K12-02 |
| Title: |
High School Health Science Education |
| Description: |
This project seeks to integrate all aspects of the Health Sciences/Biomedical program by including rigorous coursework for their diverse learners in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math as well as applied healthcare career pathways. By linking with their partners in the project, the school system will accomplish three goals. The three goals of the program are to redesign the curriculum based on existing national and state best practice curriculum, to link rigorous secondary coursework with career pathways and post secondary coursework with professional development for teachers, and to further strengthen the partnerships in the community. |
| Funding: |
$75,000.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Bloomington Public Schools |
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| Project: |
09 K12-04 |
| Title: |
Connecting Classrooms and Careers |
| Description: |
This project seeks to bring mobile Science labs into the community by providing science teachers with training at MAYO hospitals and clinics and then connecting teachers from the Educator Academy to the mobile science lab for their local high schools. Major goals of the project include creation of a new curriculum for teachers in the MAYO Career Education Programs, strengthening STEM education, and strengthening the current partnerships in the SE Minnesota area between the area school districts and the MAYO Clinic. |
| Funding: |
$75,000.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Southeast Service Cooperative, MAYO Clinic and Rochester Area Math Science Partnership |
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| Project: |
09 K12-06 |
| Title: |
Training Teenage Parents/Pathways |
| Description: |
This urban Health Pathways project educates culturally diverse youth about career opportunities in healthcare and prepares them for success in post-secondary training programs. The project includes the redesign and integration of math, science and technology into the Health Pathway curriculum. Through the use of personal inventory tools, work-based learning and essential coordinated social and academic services students are served by professional teachers, healthcare professionals and students will achieve their educational goals and begin college credit classes at MCTC. |
| Funding: |
$70,000.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Minneapolis Community and Technical College and Broadway School |
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| Category: Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Healthcare Workforce |
| Project: |
09 DIV-02 |
| Title: |
CNA Training for White Earth Reservation |
| Description: |
This northern Minnesota project seeks to engage Native American students in health careers by two initiatives. The first level of engagement is to provide nursing assistant training on the reservation with paid mentorships at healthcare facilities in the community. The second grant involvement seeks to support 20 LPN students in the program with an NCLEX prep course, NCLEX test fees and job placement in the local community. |
| Funding: |
$110,000 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Northland Community and Technical College |
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| Project: |
09 DIV-04 |
| Title: |
Jump Start Initiative |
| Description: |
The Jump Start Initiative will focus on preparing diverse urban 11th and 12th grade students so they are ready to access post secondary college. Cohorts of diverse learners in their junior year will be assessed in the Accuplacer. Based on their placement levels in reading, writing, and math, students will be able to take the pre-college coursework during the summer before their senior year and continue into the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. Each offering will be co-taught by a high school and college faculty member who will design contextualized developmental coursework through infusing health-related case studies, readings, and topics to engage and excite students to master basic skills needed for college readiness upon graduation and to pursue health-related career pathways.
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| Funding: |
$67,670.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Minneapolis Community and Technical College |
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| Project: |
09 DIV-06 |
| Title: |
Project for Pride in Living |
| Description: |
This program builds on the 2007 funding from CIHSEP and expands the PIC pilot program to other employers and larger numbers of participants. Focusing on diverse urban incumbent workers, the grant interventions are aimed at assisting current healthcare employees and diverse urban residents. Participants are assessed for learning and work readiness, and provided with an individualized remediation plan that is based on placement assessments. The program then ladders participants into jobs and health career programs at a local community and technical college partner. |
| Funding: |
$100,000.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Project for Pride in Living, Allina Hospitals |
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| Project: |
09 DIV-07 |
| Title: |
Bilingual Healthcare Program for Latinos |
| Description: |
This project seeks to engage 50 Spanish speaking students in bilingual offering of the Minnesota Health Care Core Curriculum. During the bilingual course of study students will increase their skills in English reading, writing and mathematics. Upon completion of the Core Curriculum, the students will be introduced to various educational pathways for heath care including direct patient care, Community Health Worker, phlebotomy, central service technician and dental office support personnel. This project also seeks to build stronger working partnerships among the Adult basic education, workforce centers and technical college within the community to serve residents and participants more strategically. |
| Funding: |
$89,943.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Mankato Area Adult Education |
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| Category: Developing/implementing programs/projects to provide advancement opportunities for the incumbent healthcare workforce |
| Project: |
09 WF-02 |
| Title: |
Health Support Specialist Program |
| Description: |
This project, called the Health Support Specialist Registered Apprenticeship Program, replicates a DOL program piloted in Kansas. This new category of worker, a Registered Health Support Specialist, serves persons in older adult services in expanded ways compared to the traditional Nursing assistant. This program targets frontline long term care staff, theoretical instruction and on‑the‑job learning to provide a platform in which participants receive mentoring and incremental wage increases in accordance with their increased skill levels. Further innovation includes the use of a student E-folio for student learning management, and eventual adoption of the Kansas curriculum at the Minnesota State College and University system campuses. |
| Funding: |
$100,000.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Minnesota Health and Housing Alliance |
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| Category: Developing new curricula and/or programs to meet current and future healthcare workforce needs |
| Project: |
09 CD-02 |
| Title: |
Medical Assistant Program |
| Description: |
This project supports the development of a new Medical Assisting program at Central Lakes College to the rural areas of Brainerd and Staples in Northern Minnesota. On-line course offerings, simulation, electronic medical record training and a “pathway” model will serve students from the West Central and North Central regions of Minnesota. With a vision of engaging younger students in the program, the project will also seek to build stronger partnerships among the local college, Workforce Center, secondary schools and regional K-12 providers and eventually offer five new health care programs for area residents. |
| Funding: |
$82,500.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Central Lakes College, Brainerd Medical Center |
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| Project: |
09 CD-03 |
| Title: |
Nursing Curriculum -Simulation |
| Description: |
The goal of this project is to expand and revise the WSU generic RN option and graduate nursing curricula to include simulation. This goal will be achieved by purchasing METI Pedia SIM and developing and integrating the patient care simulators into the students’ learning at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The initial simulations will prioritize high-risk emergency and common pediatric disorders. The simulators will help nursing students attain a higher level of clinical competence in the pediatric population. |
| Funding: |
$73,429.00 |
| Team Leader(s): |
Winona State University - Rochester: College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Rochester Community and Technical Colleges Department of Nursing |
