Grant to boost health care training
Published 9:04 pm Thursday, June 29, 2017
MOULTRIE, Ga. — WorkSource Southwest Georgia has been awarded the High Demand Career Initiative (HDCI) Sector Partnership Grant from the Georgia Department of Economic Development – Workforce Division (WFD). The grant award is for $187,658.
Each WorkSource Area in Georgia could select a sector industry to use in their grant application. WorkSource Southwest Georgia chose the healthcare industry for their sector strategy partnership.
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During listening sessions, healthcare institutions expressed their need of building talent pipelines in training Certified Nurses Assistants (CNA) to Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) to Registered Nurses (RN). With the same theme of training needs being repeated throughout these institutions, it became obvious that the Healthcare Sector was ideal to build this program around. The planned program will be a 2-year program aimed at addressing the labor training needs, building partnerships within the healthcare industry and aligning education and training programs to meet these needs. One of the goals of the program is to be self-sustaining at the end of the 2-year period and to have the communication and collaboration infrastructure established.
WorkSource Southwest Georgia operates under the Southwest Georgia Workforce Development Board (WDB) which serves 14 counties in Southwest Georgia including Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth counties.