Success Stories by Topic: Job training and adult education

• Highland County Community Action Organization Television Show Program
  September 2009
  The Highland County Community Action Organization created a cable television show as a means to efficiently reach individuals and families who are spread throughout their rural service area, in their own homes.
• Great Basin College Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2009
  This project aimed to recruit new EMTs, to help rural communities retain new recruits, to provide training, to secure training equipment, and to improve pre-hospital response services in the state of Nevada.
• Protecting the Golden Hour
  May 2009
  The main purpose of the Protecting the Golden Hour project was to develop and implement an adaptable, ongoing system of training, coordination, and accountability among 18 rural emergency medical service (EMS) units in Region 2.
• Northeast Minnesota Area Health Education Center Iron Range Health Occupations Today
  July 2008
  The Northeast Minnesota Area Health Education Center Iron Range Health Occupations Today (H.O.T.) program provides health career pathways for students by establishing education partnerships to support and increase student skills as they discover health care career opportunities.
• Hertford Northampton Farmer Market (North Carolina)
  June 2007
  The Hertford Northampton Farmer Market is a local venture to provide alternative markets for former tobacco farmers.
• Public Health Certificates Offered Online
  June 2007
  The Tennessee Department of Health created an online training program where department staff can earn certificates in applied epidemiology, health leadership or healthcare management.
• Thiel Hospitality House
  March 2007
  The Thiel Hospitality House is a community supported short residence opportunity for not just loved ones of hospitalized patients in crisis, but for overnight ambulatory care patients, visiting practitioners, and health professions students as well.
• Northeastern Oklahoma Community Health Center Alzheimers Project
  January 2007
  The Northeastern Oklahoma Community Health Center is addressing the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease by providing information and education to individuals who are caregivers to those suffering from the disease.
• Human Services Educational Programs
  January 2007
  This project involves developing and implementing a Human Services Certificate Program and a Human Services Associate of Applied Science Degree Program, that will train and educate individuals for jobs that support the delivery of a broad range of health-related services currently lacking in GBC's expansive, rural service area.
• Agrasafe
  July 2005
  While it may be impossible to alter the distances between farmers and first response services, AgraSafe recognized the value of offering quality training to first responders, family members, and coworkers.
• Cold Water Safety in the Schools Program
  July 2005
  This program was established to deliver cold water safety and survival training to rural teachers, paraprofessionals, pool staff, and rural elementary, middle, and high school children throughout Alaska.
• Enhancements to Healthy Families Nurturing Families
  July 2005
  This grant project was designed to address the high incidence of juvenile crime, family violence, and substance abuse among families raising teenagers.
• Merging Medical Education and Community
  July 2005
  The crux of this project was to support community-defined health projects across the State and to involve 21 medical students in the delivery of community-based primary health care services.
• Rural Health Outreach Project (Hazard, Kentucky)
  July 2005
  This project was designed to improve access to mental health, primary care, and other necessary services such as education, social services, housing, and job assistance for people with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Healthy Kids Clinic
  July 2005
  Three local school districts, two local health departments, one nonprofit health agency, and all local area physicians and dental providers formed a consortium to provide health and dental services to students in the schools regardless of income or insurance status.
• Moving Beyond Enrollment
  July 2005
  This network was formed to support experienced community-based outreach workers in providing the follow-up necessary to educate Medicaid clients, help them solve problems, and utilize the health care system most effectively in order to receive health care.
• Rural Health Outreach Grant Program (West Wendover, Nevada)
  July 2005
  Four consortium members created this program to provide local access to mental health services and to provide a school-based program teaching resiliency and social skills to school-aged children and their parents.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
• For Our Children
  July 2005
  The project objective was to provide improved health care services to 2,500 K - 12 students by using grant funds to provide a full-time Registered Nurse and one dedicated social worker to local public schools.