Workforce Development - Caregiver Training Initiative

Workforce Development Solicitations for Proposals

Caregiver Training Initiative - Award List and Project Summary

The following is a list of the projects awarded for the Caregiver Training Initiative on January 31, 2001. A summary of each project, including awardee name, address, and phone number, and a short description of the project is available below. You can also view the region map. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print the map. You can download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.

Awardees	Region	Amount
Greater Long Beach Workforce Development System	8	1,598,500
Kern County Employers' Training Resource Department	6	2,696,250
North Bay Employment Connection (NBEC)	3	1,350,000
Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium	1	2,696,250
Riverside County Local Workforce Investment Area (RCLWIA)	6	2,242,500
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA)	2	2,685,750
San Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc.	9	2,684,750
San Francisco Private Industry Council	3	1,350,250
San Jose/Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Board	4 & 5	2,696,250
SELACO Workforce Investment Board	8	1,938,500
Ventura County Human Services Agency	7	400,500
West Hills Community College District/Central San Joaquin Valley	5 & 6	2,660,500
TOTAL		25,000,000

Greater Long Beach Workforce Development System 200 Pine Avenue, Suite 400 Long Beach, CA 90802	Ray O. Worden (562) 570-3811
Region: 8 Area Served: Long Beach	Award Amount: $ 1,598,500
Summary: The Greater Long Beach Workforce Development system is proposing to provide healthcare industry training to local residents enrolled in Welfare-to-Work and/or Workforce Investment Act programs. Through a strategic plan to move customers from entry level positions through higher level skilled healthcare positions, we will attempt to address the critical healthcare worker shortages in our local labor market. Partnering with our public educational institutions, our local Service Employees International Union, and our local public assistance provider, we plan on closing the gaps between the labor market needs and the needs of an aging society.
Kern County Employers� Training Resource Department 2001 28^th Street Bakersfield, CA 93301	John Nilon (661) 336-6849
Region: 6 Counties: Inyo, Kern, Kings, Mono, & Tulare	Award Amount: $ 2,696,250
Summary: Beginning with the end in mind, our five county consortium of Inyo, Kern, Kings, Mono and Tulare counties in collaboration with over fifteen public and private organizations, submit this proposal. The objective of this project is to attract, train, and retrain caregivers to address the critical shortages of healthcare workers in our region. Through the use of a comprehensive marketing campaign that includes job fairs, mass media, and a Web site dedicated to healthcare, we will attract CalWORKS recipients, unemployed, underemployed, and dislocated workers for training in healthcare professions from entry level home health aides through nurse practitioners. We will retain incumbent workers by creating and marketing opportunities for advancement within the healthcare profession. By beginning with the end in mind we have designed the strategies, programs and processes of this project for long-term sustainability through the collaborative efforts of the regional partners and partnering agencies.
North Bay Employment Connection (NBEC) 1700 Second Street, Suite 378 Napa, CA 94559	Chris Burns (707) 253-2620
Region: 3 Counties: Marin, Napa, Solano & Sonoma	Award Amount: $ 1,350,000
Summary: The NBEC Caregiver Training Initiative is a collaborative effort of workforce investment areas from Napa, Sonoma, Marin and Solano counties. Job seekers and the working poor will be targeted to increase their skills and earning potential. Our career ladder model (from IHSS to LVN) is also a work-first model � local employers are committed to hiring and training participants. Individuals who are not work-ready will first receive job readiness training. Recruitment will occur through our network of 50+ partners and the employer community. An intense marketing campaign will start the project ensuring that employers and job seekers know the initiative�s opportunities.
Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium 7420 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969	Charles Brown (530) 822-7145
Region: 1 Counties: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yuba	Award Amount: $ 2,696,250
Summary: Region I (far northern California) is experiencing a shortage of qualified nurses in the healthcare industry, while at the same time sustaining unemployment rates significantly higher than the state as a whole. This Northern California Employment Network Health Caregiver Training Project would address the problem by creating a continuum of healthcare education from CNA to LVN and RN in cooperation with the healthcare industry. The plan calls for a five step region-wide strategy that will position and link the four workforce investment areas in a continuum of health occupational education, improve access to community colleges and Regional Occupational Programs, and develop private industry support as a significant feature. This project will serve 350 individuals. The outreach will target CalWORKS, welfare, low-income clients, dislocated homemakers, so called "aged out" foster youth, as well as underemployed individuals in the healthcare industry. The project funding will be used as seed money to establish a sustainable healthcare training and employment infrastructure. The outcome goals focus on the credentialling rate, entered employment rate, retention rate, adult earnings rate, and customer satisfaction.
Riverside County Local Workforce Investment Area (RCLWIA) 1151 Spruce Street Riverside, CA 92507	Kathryn Fortner (909) 955-3100
Region: 6 Counties: Riverside & San Bernardino	Award Amount: $ 2,242,500
Summary: The Riverside/San Bernardino Caregivers Training Initiative provides innovative methods of increasing the number, quality, and wages of entry level caregivers through three customized training plans: a collaboration of small RCFE/Home-Health Aid employers, a corporation based WtW plan, and an acute-care hospital project. These plans include training components targeting limited English Speakers and emancipated foster care youth populations. Add-ons to increase wages and quality care include a geriatric care aide, RNA; acute care CNA, and promotion to LVN. Collaboration of public, not-for-profit, and corporate systems is the linchpin to this proposal successfully implementing a holistic and replicable approach to the caregiver crises.
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA) 1217 Del Paso Boulevard Sacramento, CA 95815	Kathy Kossick (916) 263-3800
Region: 2 Counties: Alpine, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra and Yolo	Award Amount: $ 2,685,750
Summary: The Capital Area Investment Zone proposes to met the workforce development needs of the healthcare industry through a strong seven county regional collaborative consisting of three Workforce Investment Areas, three community college districts, ROP, adult education, labor, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities located in Region 2. The focus will be on recruiting and training long-term CalWORKS recipients for Certified Nurse Assistant and In-Home Health Aide positions, providing formal training for incumbent In-Home Supportive Service providers who will earn educational credits, providing job placement at local health facilities and providing the opportunities for advancement into Psychiatric Technicians, Licensed Vocational Nurses, or Registered Nurses. Case Management, incentives, extensive support services, and other necessary supports provided by One-Stop Career Center staff will ensure client motivation, attendance, and continued participation.
San Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc. 1551-4^th Avenue, Suite 600 San Diego, CA 92101	Lawrence G. Fitch (619) 238-1445
Region: 9 County: San Diego	Award Amount: $ 2,684,750
Summary: The San Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc. in collaboration with 24 project partners has developed the San Diego Caregiver Training Initiative (SDCTI) Project to help meet the critical and growing need of the local health care industry for a qualified workforce. The SDCTI Project activities include the following: program and service coordination; eligibility and suitability assessment; a broad variety of training and professional development education options; supportive services; and job and career development, placement and retention services.
San Francisco Private Industry Council 1650 Mission Street, Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94103	Pamela Calloway (415) 431-8700
Region: 3 Counties: San Francisco & San Mateo	Award Amount: $ 1,350,250
Summary: San Francisco and San Mateo counties in Region 3 are proposing a program for recruiting, training and retaining 300 individuals in caregiver professions. Partners include county welfare agencies, Workforce Investment Boards, Public Authorities, organized labor, employers, community colleges, school districts, and Community Based Organizations. In addition to providing skills training in a variety of venues and formats, we will focus on basic skills and vocational English as a Second Language, both within a health care context. Coordination staff will ensure a seamless delivery system that addresses career ladders along the caregiving continuum, offer support services so that people can participate, and make improvements in caregiver curricula.
San Jose/Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Board 50 West San Fernando Street, Suite 900 San Jose, CA 95131	Leslie Parks (408) 277-5880
Region: 4 & 5 Counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, & Santa Cruz	Award Amount: $ 2,696,250
Summary: The proposed Greater Bay Area Training Initiative (CTI) is a six-county collaboration encompassing all mandated partners in Region 4 and the counties of Monterey and San Benito in Region 5. The CTI will focus on recruiting and providing services to new and incumbent works at the lower skill levels of the continuum of care and then providing training, support services and follow-up to ensure career growth opportunities. Regional system building is a key feature of the proposal to raise awareness and professionalism within the healthcare industry while developing regional standards to support the continuum of care.
South East Los Angeles County (SELACO) Workforce Investment Board (WIB) 10900 E. 183^rd Street, Suite 350 Cerritos, CA 90703	Bill R. Plaster (562) 402-9336
Region: 8 Counties: Los Angeles and Orange	Award Amount: $ 1,938,500
Summary: Expanding on a highly successful Welfare-to-Work program with a 95 percent retention rate, the SELACO WIB addresses an imbalance of opportunity within the health care industry. Its proposed CTI initiative builds infrastructural change by focusing (primarily but not exclusively) on the overlooked convalescent care sector. While guiding CalWORKS recipients and inexperienced workers to CNA and/or CHHA certification, the program offers incumbents a progressive career training path, including generalist/LVN and specialized tracks. All told, 300 WIA and WtW enrollees will be served by a partnership that involves employers, educational institutions, and local DPSS-GAIN offices throughout Region 8.
Ventura County Human Services Agency	Barbara J. Fitzgerald (805) 652-7602
Region: 7 County: Ventura	Award Amount: $ 400,000
Summary: This proposal requests funding of $450,000 to augment existing training programs and to establish a career pathway for upgrading skills leading to higher paying caregiver jobs. The augmentation of existing training would consist of short-term home Health Care training courses with a clinical work-based training component. The upgrade path includes training for Certified Nursing Assistant, Licensed Vocational Nurse or Acute Care jobs. The vocational training portion will be provided by the Ventura Community College District and area Adult Schools through their existing health care programs. The County�s Job and Career Centers will coordinate the program with local training providers.
West Hills Community College District/Central San Joaquin Valley	Frank P. Gornick (559) 935-0801
Region: 5 & 6 Counties: Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced	Award Amount: $ 2,660,500
Summary: West Hills Community College and its regional partners from Areas 5 and 6 are proposing a comprehensive plan to recruit new health care career trainees, expand training opportunities across a multi-county area, work with employers to ensure entry level employment options, and develop a pool of qualified applicants who will participate in the fast-track Psychiatric Technician training program. The Central San Joaquin Valley will house the new State Mental Hospital, which will employ 1,500 people by 2003. This new, major employer creates a dynamic opportunity for economic self-sufficiency for rural citizens and regional economic development. An innovative marketing strategy, development of articulation agreements, implementation of a rural transit system and new training options makes this proposal unique and responsive to regional employer needs. Currently all partners work with Welfare-to-Work and WIA eligible students. Our training strategies reflect a solid approach in preparing the San Joaquin Valley for the expanding health care needs of Central California.

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