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CLTCEC. Mission Statement. CLTCEC is dedicated to providing educational opportunities as tools of empowerment for long-term care workers to build better lives, provide quality care and meet and invest in the critical needs of the long-term care workforce. CLTCEC & ULTCW.
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Mission Statement • CLTCEC is dedicated to providing educational opportunities as tools of empowerment for long-term care workers to build better lives, provide quality care and meet and invest in the critical needs of the long-term care workforce.
CLTCEC & ULTCW • SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW), the 2nd largest SEIU local in the nation, represents 180,000 IHSS & nursing home workers in California • CLTCEC, a 501(c)3 non-profit supported through funding from ULTCW, provides educational opportunities to long-term care workers • CLTCEC is the largest trainer of IHSS workers, serving 5,000 workers per year
Three Pillars of our Work Training and Trust Fund Community Colleges CMMI Grant
Community College Partnerships • LACC (Los Angeles Community College) • Over 2500 students served annually • ESL • VESL • IHSSS • Computer skills • Growth strategy to serve all CA
Training and Trust Fund • Nursing Home members of ULTCW bargain money to be put into a fund • These dollars are used for training for these members • 18 contributing employers • Two (2) staff • 13 classes in 2014 • Computer skills • ESL and GED prep • C.N.A. cohort
CMMI Grant In 2012, CLTCEC received $11.8 million HCIA award for our project titled: Care Team Integration of the Home-Based Workforce Better Care Improve Health Lower Cost Grant Period: JULY 1, 2012 – JUNE 30, 2015
Project Partners • CLTCEC, Lead Agency • Overall project administration/management • Carrying out trainings • Partner Agencies: • SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) • Contra Costa County Department of Aging and Health Services • Contra Costa Health Plan • UCSF Center for Health Professions • Shirley Ware Education Center • SynerMed • IEHP (Inland Empire Health Plan)
Intervention – Better Care • TRAINING In-Home Supportive Services provider (personal home care aides or PHCAs) with a curriculum that enhances the training given to them by the consumers and to serve as health monitors, coaches, navigators and care aides. • INTEGRATING PHCAs into the healthcare system as a member of the consumer’s integrated care team. • IT IS THE CONSUMER’S CHOICE Participation and engagement in the intervention strategy is the consumer’s choice.
Core Competencies • Soft skills • Coach • Navigator • Communicator • Dress and Undress • Hard skills • CPR and First Aid • Hand Washing • Body Mechanics • Care of Teeth • Communication • Monitor • Care Aide • + 5 more that are still in development
IHSS worker stats in LA County • 130,000 workers • Languages served • English Spanish Armenian • Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) • Korean • 50ish years old • Predominantly women • 6th grade literacy level • Lives in poverty
Computer Training • A survey of our classes: • Less than 50% have either regular online, smart phone or computer access • Less than 50% feel relatively confident with their skill to use or access technology • The most popular class in both the Training and Trust Fund and our Community College partnerships: • Computer Skills
Training For The Future • Educational Access on Scale • 423,000 workers in CA • Shortage on the horizon • Continue to professionalize IHSS workforce • Gap on computer skills and access • Prepare C.N.A.s for EMRs • Computer skills
programs to address emerging needs • Continue CMMI training and get to scale in CA • Attach computer labs and specific computer skill training to CMMI classes • Expand access to Community College offerings • Computer skills • Adoption of CMMI curriculum • Smart Phone Pilot project • Addresses access, skillset, and integration
Corinne Eldridge Executive Director corinne@cltcec.org 213.210.6389 Thank you. Questions?