HealthForce Minnesota

Grants opportunities: Funded projects & outcomes

2009
Actualization Team Project Descriptions
Approved Requests for FY 2009 Funding $850,688.00

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-06:	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:	K12-02
Title:	High School Health Science Education
Description:	Bloomington Public Schools partnering with Normandale Community College and Fairview Health Systems This project seeks to integrate all aspects of the Health Sciences/Biomedical program. This includes rigorous coursework for diverse learners in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math as well as applied healthcare career pathways. By linking with project partners, 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:	Southeast Service Cooperative, Mayo Clinic 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 creating new curriculum for teachers in the Mayo Career Education Programs, strengthening STEM education, and extending current partnerships between school districts and the Mayo Clinic in southeastern Minnesota.
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:	HIRED, Minneapolis Public Schools Broadway Teen program, Minneapolis Community and Technical College 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. Teachers and healthcare professionals through the use of personal inventory tools, work-based learning, and essential, coordinated social and academic services serve students. The intent is for students to achieve their educational goals and begin college credit classes at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (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:	Northland Community and Technical College, White Earth Tribal Community College, Mahnomen Health Center, Pioneer Memorial Care Center This northern Minnesota project seeks to engage Native American students in health careers through two initiatives. The first initiative will provide nursing assistant training on the reservation and supports students through paid mentorships at healthcare facilities in the community. The second initiative seeks to support 20 LPN students in the program by offering a NCLEX prep course, NCLEX test fees and assisting with 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:	Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis Public Schools, &dlquo;Jump Start&drquo; Initiative The Jump Start Initiative will focus on preparing diverse urban 11th and 12th grade students to access post secondary college ready. 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 pre-college coursework during the summer after their junior 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. They will design contextualized developmental coursework by infusing health-related case studies, readings, and topics that will engage and excite students to master basic skills needed for college readiness upon graduation and to pursue health-related career pathways.
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:	Project for Pride in Living, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Hennepin County Medical Center, Park Nicollet, North Memorial Medical Center, Allina, Regions Hospital and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics Building on the 2007 funding from HealthForce Minnesota, this project will expand the Partners in Careers (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 an individualized remediation plan based on placement assessments. The program then ladders participants into jobs and health career programs with local community and technical college partners.
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:	Mankato Area Adult Basic Education, South Central College, South Central Workforce Council, Healthcare Education Industry Partnership This project seeks to engage 50 Spanish speaking students in a 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. Once the Core Curriculum is completed, students will be introduced to various educational pathways for heathcare 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 within the community among the adult basic education, workforce centers and technical college so residents and participants are more strategically served.
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:	Minnesota Health and Housing Alliance, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Healthcare Education Industry Partnership, Presbyterian Homes and Services, North Central Kansas Technical College This project, called the Health Support Specialist Registered Apprenticeship Program, replicates a Department of Labor (DOL) program piloted in Kansas. A Registered Health Support Specialist, a new category of worker, serves persons in older adult services with expanded responsibilities as compared to a 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:	Central Lakes College, Lakewood Health system, Riverwood Healthcare Center, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brainerd Medical Center 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 healthcare 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:	Winona State University - Rochester: College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Rochester Community and Technical Colleges Department of Nursing 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:	$80,575.00
Team Leader(s):	Winona State University - Rochester: College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Rochester Community and Technical Colleges Department of Nursing

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