Success Stories by Topic: Workforce

• Behavioral Health Services Model Project
  May 2009
  The primary focus of the project was to expand the number of behavioral health encounters by increasing the number of, and access to, behavioral health care providers.
• 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.
• Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative “Club Scrub”
  March 2008
  Rural providers collaborated on an interactive, after-school program called “Club Scrub” – a community partnership involving local hospitals and their respective school systems. The primary goal of the program was to increase awareness of health-related professions.
• Leadership Development Services
  August 2007
  The Public Hospital Cooperative (PHC) and its formal Leadership Development committee have developed the Leadership Development Series, which focuses on education for hospitals, clinics, and long-term care unit managers.
• Dickenson County Virginia Child Care Center
  June 2007
  Several organizations in Dickenson County Virgina worked together to build a state-of-the-art child care facility to serve workers at technology-based customer-service call centers.
• 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.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships/AHEC Program
  June 2006
  WVRHEP/AHEC is made up of 11 consortia and four Area Health Education Centers each with a local board of directors. Approximately 800 rural community leaders, local rural health providers, and higher education institutional representatives are involved in all aspects of the program.