MISSOURI’S Funding awarded under the U.S. Department of Labor’s

Trade Adjustment AssistanceCommunity College and Career Training Grant

Program

• $500 million in FY11 grant funds to expand and improve the ability of eligible institutions to deliver education and career training programs – capacity building grants

• Awards to institutions of higher education and consortia of two or more individual eligible institutions

• Includes public, proprietary, or other non-profit educational institutions

• Period of performance is 36 months

• Includes implementation and start-up, program development and enhancement, and grant close-out

USDOL ETA PROGRAM OVERVIEW

WHO WE ARE:13 Community and Technical Colleges and

14 Workforce Investment Regions

MoHealthWINs Grant Team

and Consortium

Colleges

Workforce System Employers

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

Health Informatics Therapeutic Services Diagnostic Services Support Services

Health Information Technologist

Information Systems Medical Intake Specialist

Security Support Technician

Computer Support Technician

Certified Nursing Aide Certified Medical

Technician Licensed Practical Nurse Associate Degreed Nurse

Pharmacy Technician Medical Aide

Feeding Assistant

Hearing Instrument Specialist

Medical Lab Technician Phlebotomist

Radiologic Technician

Environmental Engineer Maintenance Technician Mechanical Technician Biomedical Technician

Health Sciences Pathway Participating Consortium Colleges Health Informatics East Central (EC), Jefferson (JC), Linn State (LS), Metropolitan (MCC), Moberly

(MACC), Ozark (OTC), St. Louis (STLCC) Therapeutic Services Crowder (CC), East Central (EC), Metropolitan (MCC), Mineral Area (MAC), North

Central (NCMC), St. Louis (STLCC), Three Rivers (TRC) Diagnostic Services East Central (EC), Jefferson (JC), Moberly (MACC), Ozarks (OTC), State Fair (SFCC),

St. Charles (SCC) Support Services Linn State (LS), Metropolitan (MCC), Mineral Area (MAC), Ozarks (OTC)

Health Science Educational Pathways and Participating Colleges

Who are the Eligible Target Participant Population?

1. Trade Act Assistance Participants

2. Unemployed Participants

3. Underemployed Participants

4. Low Skilled Participants

Priority 1: Accelerate Progress for Low-Skilled and Other Workers.

Strategies: MoHealthWINs will develop a healthcare portal that will assess and develop participants’ skills, restructure courses into modular formats, introduce flexible schedules, create bridge programs into shorter certificate modules and enhance relationships between colleges and the public workforce system.

This is an actual MoHealthWINs Transitions class at East Central College, Union, MIssouri

Priority 2: Improve Retention and Achievement Rates and/or Reduce Time to Completion.

Strategies: MoHealthWINs will integrate basic academics into contextualized modules and provide supplemental instruction, develop intensive student services interventions, and support articulation of credit for coursework and work experience (Credit for Prior Learning).

Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Missouri – MaintTech -Modularized certificate programs in stationary engineering and HVAC.

Priority 3: Build Programs that Meet Industry Needs Including Developing Career Pathways.

Strategies: MoHealthWINs will focus efforts on industry needs through the development of learning communities, employer engagement, internships, and leveraging tuition assistance programs to implement “learn and earn” opportunities.

Priority 4: Strengthen Online and Technology-Enabled Learning.

Strategies: MoHealthWINs will develop online or hybrid, technology-enabled programs, including strategies to help becoming a successful online learner with digital literacy courses as well as enhance training with online simulation software programs of study.

First fiscal year of MoHealthWINs (Sept 30, 2012):• Eight colleges started 18 new programs• 219 participants enrolled in MHW programs• MAC’s hybrid integrated electronic software lab

By the end of 2012:• 25 programs at 10 colleges• OTC’s mobile hearing instrument training lab• MCC’s information technology simulation lab

First Year RESULTS

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.

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