MoHealthWINs: Missouri Healthcare Workforce Innovation Networks

1. MoHealthWINs: Missouri Healthcare Workforce Innovation Networks National Council for Workforce Education Monday, October 22, 2012

2. MoHealthWINsMissouri Health Workforce Innovation Networks Funded under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) U.S. Department of Labor $20 million, three year grant awarded to a consortium of 13 Missouri colleges Start & end dates: October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2014 Fiscal Agent: Ozarks Technical CollegeAdministrative Coordination: Missouri Community College Association

3. Background In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act amended the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant Program. In 2010, President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which included $2 billion over four years to fund the TAACCCT program.

4. TAACCCT Purpose TAACCCT provides community colleges with funds to expand and improve programs that: • can be completed in two years or less, • are suited for workers who are eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Act, and • prepare program participants for pathways to employment in high-wage, high-skill occupations.

5. Participant Eligibility • TAA-Eligible • Unemployed • Underemployed • Low-Skilled • Veterans Priority

6. Who We Are: 13 Community and Technical Colleges and 14 Workforce Investment Regions

7. WHO WE ARE CONTINUED:25 EMPLOYER PARTNERS SIGNED ON TO SUPPORT MOHEALTHWINs

8. Health Science Educational Pathways and Participating Colleges

9. Federal Priorities, Missouri Strategies Priority 1: Accelerate Progress for Low Skilled and Other Workers Strategies: • develop a healthcare portal • restructure courses into modular formats and stackable credentials • enhance relationships between colleges and the public workforce system

10. Federal Priorities, Missouri Strategies Priority 2: Improve Retention and Achievement Rates and/or Reduce Time to Completion Strategies: • integrate basic academics into contextualized modules and provide supplemental instruction • develop student case management strategies • support articulation of credit for coursework and work experience (credit for prior learning)

11. Federal Priorities, Missouri Strategies Priority 3: Build Programs that Meet Industry Needs Strategies: • development of learning communities • employer engagement • internships • leveraging tuition assistance • programs to implement "learn and earn” opportunities

12. Federal Priorities, Missouri Strategies Priority 4: Strengthen Online and Technology-Enabled Learning Strategies: • develop hybrid, technology enabled programs • promote successful online learning and simulation • digital literacy courses

13. St. Louis Community College’s MoHealthWINs grant • Awarded $3.7 million of the $20 million Missouri grant. • Enroll 855 participants in two career pathways: Health Therapeutics and Health Informatics. • Major employer partners: BJC HealthCare (13 hospitals) and SSM Health Care (seven hospitals).

14. Paradigm Shift

15. Six Key Project Features • MoHealthWINs Portal Process • Boot camps to prepare participants for the entry into credit healthcare programs • Build stackable credentials and credit for prior learning • Provide “learn and earn” opportunities for participants through a newly-created Medical Services Workforce Outsourcing Center • Career pathway coaches • Cohort-based learning communities

17. Funded Programs • MoHealthWINs Portal • Accelerated GED • Digital Literacy Preparation • Healthcare Boot Camps • Therapeutics Pathway • Home Health Caregiver • Patient Care Tech • Certified Nurse Assistant • Health Informatics Pathway • Medical Information Intake Specialist • Help Desk/End User Support • Healthcare IT Technician Certificate of Specialization • Electronic Health Records Certifications

18. Sample IT in Healthcare Pathway

20. Partner Roles Employers • Assessment of employment needs • Curriculum and career pathway validation • Clinical and work-based learning opportunities Workforce Investment Boards • Recruitment and referral • Supportive services • Placement Colleges • Student assessment • Career pathway and program development • Instruction and coaching • Data collection and tracking

21. Projected Outcome Measures • Job placement - 65% • Job retention - 75% • Average annual earnings - $31,200 • Credit attainment rate (of credit program enrollment) - 70% • Attainment of certificate (less than 1 year) - 50%

22. Highlights of Progress To Date October 2011: Grant announcement Nov. - Dec. 2011: DOL final grant negotiations January 2012: Finalize partner budgets and work plans February 2011: Federal kickoff meeting, Washington, DC March 2012: Statewide MoHealthWINs summit meeting July 2012: Launch contextualized basic skills curriculum development work teams DOL Missouri site visit (July 30 – August 3) August 2012: College-wide orientation for internal stakeholders October 2012: Enroll initial cohort

23. MoHealthWINs Evaluation Progress Report, June 2012: Lessons Learned & Recommendations For Continuous Improvement • A fully engaged grant implementation and monitoring team should be in place at each college. • Program maps clearly outlining how participants moves through a set of intermediate, stackable credentials aimed at skill development, employment, and/or final program completion should be in place. • Each college should build its capacity to more closely monitor the progress measures described in its grant proposal. • To share best practices, identify barriers, maintain the focus of innovation, and promote sustainability, the Grant Team should partner with member colleges to form statewide Continuous Improvement Teams organized around program pathways and common issues faced by member colleges. • Colleges should direct increased attention to the overall goal of innovation and change across the campus and the State. This is NOT just another grant to deliver traditional programs.

24. Excellence = 5 • All programs scheduled to start in Year 1 have started. MoHealthWINs Implementation Update • Good = 4 • Some programs started in Year 1 and the rest will start in Fall 2012 Eight Colleges Started 18 Programs In Year 1, With 213 Participants. By The End Of Fall 2012, 10 Colleges Will Have Started 25 Programs. • Making Progress = 3 • Limited or no programs started in Year 1, but programs will start in Fall 2012 or Spring 2013 • Lacking Progress = 2 • No programs started in Year 1.Immediate action is needed to ensure Fall/Spring star-up. • Poor = 1 • Performance is poor and Spring 2013 program start-up is in doubt.

25. Missouri Manufacturing Workforce Innovation Networks (MoManufacturingWINs) • Funded under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) U.S. Department of Labor • $15 million, three year grant awarded to a consortium of nine Missouri colleges • Start & end dates: October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2015 • Fiscal Agent: St. Louis Community College • Administrative Coordination: Missouri Community College Association

26. Missouri Partnership • Eight Missouri Community Colleges and Linn State Technical College • Local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) • United Auto Workers LETC • National Association of Manufacturers • Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry • Credentialing Organizations • Local Employers

27. Approach • Transforming delivery of training to 3,300 adults - TAA-eligible individuals - Unemployed - Underemployed - Low-skilled workers - Veterans Priority • Targeted occupations - Production - Machining - Welding - Industrial Maintenance - Transportation and Logistics

28. Founding Partners Partners

29. St. Louis Community College • Serve 442 individuals • Over 1,000 Industry Recognized Credentials • National Career Readiness Certificate (plus) • Certified Production Technician (CPT) • Certified Logistics Associate (CLA) • National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) certification • Innovations • Engaging in Sector Partnerships • Accelerating instruction • Embedding industry-recognized credentials within degree programs • Incorporating more online and hybrid training • Contextualizing and integrating basic skills into the technical coursework • Integrated manufacturing portal process • Certificate of Specialization in Precision Machining • Aligned with AAS in Computer Integrated Manufacturing

30. Thank you and please visit us at:www.mccatoday.org/mohealthwins This workforce solution was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The solution was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of labor. The Department of Labor makes not guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information on linked sites and including, but not limited to, accuracy of the information or its completeness, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability, or ownership.