Attendees at the Summer 2015 Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership meeting were presented with a unique opportunity to meet and interact with a unique team of healthcare innovators — two members of the design team behind My Gift of Grace: A Conversation Game for Living & Dying Well, a new initiative receiving national press coverage and sparking important, but often avoided, conversations about death, dying and end-of-life care among families and throughout the US healthcare system.
2015-16 IP MEETING CYCLE BEGINS WITH INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION BY LOCAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATORS7/23/2015
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The Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership (GPHP) has concluded another successful year — its tenth — of service to the employers, educators, workers, jobseekers and workforce development professionals of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Southern New Jersey. Highlights of the Partnership’s tenth year included its key supporting role in registering employer partner Philadelphia FIGHT’s Community Health Worker Apprenticeship Program with the Pennsylvania Apprenticeship & Training Council; its successful application for another multiyear, multimillion dollar US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration “on-the-job training” (OJT) grant; and another banner year of 500+ training completions by community residents and incumbent workers employed by GPHP partners. OJT Program year-in-review: Success Continues in Year 3 as DOL Renews, expands Grant support5/20/2015 The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund and Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership (GPHP) have successfully concluded the third year of their Health Careers Mobility Project (HCaMP), a $3 million federally-funded, four-year program to help long-term unemployed residents of the Delaware Valley secure jobs and begin climbing healthcare career ladders via subsidized On-the-Job Training (OJT). In October, GPHP and the Training Fund also announced their receipt of a second, $4 million OJT grant, extending the project’s reach into new occupations and prolonging service availability for another four-year period. “We are excited and truly honored that the Department of Labor has recognized and rewarded the success of our healthcare OJT model,” says GPHP Director Susan B. Thomas. “With our employer and labor partners’ assistance, and the cooperation of local public-sector and non-profit agencies, we’ve been able to make a major contribution to the Greater Philadelphia region’s economic recovery.” Since May 2012, more than 120 Delaware Valley residents have participated in OJT placements at healthcare employers in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware: 36 in Year 1, another 46 in Year 2, and 34 in Year 3. Approximately 95% of participants have completed their OJT placements, and 86% have successfully transitioned into full-time employment following completion.
IP Director Susan Thomas was one of five featured speakers at April's JOIN #WorkThatWorks Ignite Talks event. Learn more about the event at http://joincollaborative.org/ignite-talks-workthatworks/, and check out her talk here:
Guest speakers at the Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership’s April IP meeting discussed important education and privacy topics, covering important workforce topics from a wide range of different perspectives. “Convening representatives from all these different groups is one of the Partnership’s most essential functions,” IP Director Susan B. Thomas explained. “The IP is a forum where representatives from healthcare organizations can hear from bright young public servants, community service organizations, and experienced healthcare lawyers — and really consider what these developments mean for them and their organizations.” As usual, the meeting opened with IP Director Thomas’s review of quarterly and year-to-date achievements in training, fundraising and other Partnership activities. With one quarter to go before the conclusion of the 2014-15 IP cycle, the Partnership has completed 331 trainings and is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total; scheduled up-coming trainings include Teambuilding and Trust, HIPAA, Workforce Readiness, and Customer Service and Communications trainings for community health employers. Also announced were a number of pending grant applications: one to support the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund’s Practical Nursing Program, one to participate in establishing a National Center for Healthcare Apprenticeship, and one — just one of three applications endorsed by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter for the Wells Fargo & US Conference of Mayors “CommunityWINS” funding program — to support the creation of Community Health and Behavioral Health pre-apprenticeship programs for out-of-school, out-of-work young people. The Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership’s quarterly IP meeting helped launch a major Ebola Worker Safety Symposium, sponsored and organized by the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund’s Healthcare Occupational Safety Center. Featured speakers included guests from the Philadelphia Department of Health, US Centers for Disease Control, OSHA, and healthcare labor unions with members on the front lines of the fight against Ebola. More than 135 participants from seven nursing homes, six hospitals, five schools, eleven federal, state and local government agencies, four public service organizations and four unions participated in a day of speakers, panelists, live demonstrations and open Q&A periods IP Director Susan Thomas opened the day’s events with her quarterly summary of Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership activities and achievements. To date, the Partnership has completed 258 trainings, and is on pace for another banner year as a leading provider of low-cost, high-quality training solutions for the Greater Philadelphia region’s frontline healthcare workers and managers. The Partnership also announced that it had officially kicked off work on its new, $4 million On-the-Job Training (OJT) grant from the US Department of Labor, with a number of Community Health Worker placements already agreed to by participating employers. Also introduced was Lacey Dickinson, the Partnership’s new Employer Liaison. Lacey moved into her current role from another local industry partnership, the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, where she served as Membership Manager. Lacey can be contacted at [email protected] 150+ students & 25 Philadelphia healthcare professionals make 2014 Health Career Fair a success11/21/2014 Approximately 150 students from 11 Philadelphia high schools attended the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund’s Health Career Fair, an annual career exploration event at the Training Fund’s Breslin Learning Center in Center City Philadelphia. The 2014 Health Career Fair featured 25 healthcare and human service professionals from across the Greater Philadelphia region, whose generous donations of time and expertise helped make the Fair a success. Speakers at this year’s event included nurses, midwives, physical therapists, social workers, dentists, hospital system and insurance company administrators, behavioral health specialists, and others. Dr Walter Tsou, MD, MPH, delivered an inspiring and informative keynote address; Dr Tsou, a public health and healthcare reform consultant as well as a visiting faulty member at the University of Pennsylvania, is a former Philadelphia Health Commissioner and American Public Health Association President. This range of speakers helped student attendees at the Career Fair widen their perceptions of what it means to work in the local healthcare sector, and begin to grasp the huge range of employment opportunities open to students with almost any set of skills, interests and aptitudes. In addition to ten Career Panels, the Fair included interactive occupational health-and-safety training led by peer trainers from Lincoln High School. Four Lincoln students, who received their training through an OSHA-funded worker education program operated by the Training Fund, led their peers through hands-on, interactive educational presentations on disease transmission/prevention, dealing with hazards in the workplace, and other important occupational safety and health topics. The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund has received a $4 million H-1B Ready to Work Partnership grant from the US Department of Labor. This grant, which will be administered by the Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership, extends our current federal H-1B On-the-Job training (OJT) program for Nursing and Health Information workers, and allows us to include new occupations in the project, including Health Information Data Analyst and Community Health Worker (CHW). The new grant also includes start-up support for Registered Apprenticeships. On October 23, 2014, as a result of this award and our current OJT work, representatives of the Fund, our union affiliate and our employer partners had the honor of meeting with US Secretary of Labor Tom Perez. Secretary Perez invited us to join him in a roundtable discussion with two other projects, so he could learn more about efforts to hire and train the long-term unemployed in both our current project and the new grant, including our plans to implement Apprenticeships. |
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