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Collaborative Solutions to Health Workforce Shortages in Connecticut

Collaborative Solutions to Health Workforce Shortages in Connecticut. July 20, 2005. Connecticut is experiencing shortages in a number of workforce areas, including allied health, teaching in specific fields and levels, information technology and engineering.

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Collaborative Solutions to Health Workforce Shortages in Connecticut

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  1. Collaborative Solutions to Health Workforce Shortages in Connecticut July 20, 2005

  2. Connecticut is experiencing shortages in a number of workforce areas, including allied health, teaching in specific fields and levels, information technology and engineering.

  3. As a result of relatively flat higher education budgets almost all base funding increases have gone to meet collective bargaining costs.

  4. Connecticut higher education is presented with demands for more workforce production without substantive new resources.

  5. Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education (BGHE) directed the Department of Higher Education to seek to leverage resources through strategic partners.

  6. Focused on four strategies: • Building career ladders and transfer pathways • Fostering interest and preparation in demand fields • Developing collaborative, multi-institution responses to defined needs • Incenting shared responsibility across state government, private industry and higher education to meet state demands

  7. CT Department of Higher Education developed disciplinary “pathway” agreements and coordinated outreach efforts in the areas of technology, nursing, teaching, early childhood education and engineering.

  8. Projected

  9. How did we get there? • CT Articulation Model for Nurse Educational Mobility • State provided incentive funds beginning in 2002 totaling $2.5 million • State funds were only available if the institution agreed to reallocate some of its resources to the project and if local hospitals and allied health organizations agreed to a share of fiscal and outreach responsibility. • State legislative creation of an Allied Health Workforce Council on which DHE sits.

  10. We have embraced a “divide and conquer” philosophy in terms of approaching CT’s workforce shortages discipline by discipline, but simultaneously we have accepted the reality that the only way to meet needs is to press higher education and our partners for reallocations, collaborations and connectivity.

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