Health Care Career Consortium

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Health Care Career Consortium

• Long Term Care
• Career Ladder Program

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Problem Statement

• Poverty wages (7.5 hourly) and minimal hours
  available to IHSS workers trap them in cycle of
  poverty with little opportunity for advancement
• Growing shortage of trained health care providers
  in the C.N.A, LVN, and RN levels (projected job
  openings in 2005 in California 33,100 in C.N.A
  level, 24,330 in LVN level, and 45,930 in RN
  level1)
• 1 Source Funding the Education and Training of
  the Health Care Workforce. Santiago Jackson,
  Asst. Superintendent LAUSD, 11/08/02

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Project Goals

• To promote participants economic
  self-sufficiency through opportunities to move up
  career ladder in the health care field
• To place C.N.A and LVN graduates in long term
  care facilities

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Career Ladder
Program Preparation
Criteria
LVN 38,000

• Assessment
• Basic Skills

1000 hours of C.N.A experience
C.N.A 21,000

• Assessment
• Basic Skills
• Pre-requisite Courses

175 hours of IHSS experience
IHSS 15,600
Estimated annual salary in LA
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Project Objectives

• To educate and case manage 600 IHSS workers in
  C.N.A track over a four year period
• To educate and case manage 135 C.N.A workers in
  LVN track over a four year period
• To place 80 of graduates in long term care
  facilities and ensure 90 day job retention

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Consortium Partners

• Los Angeles Mayors Office
• Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
• Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD)
• Workforce Investment Board (WIB)
• Homecare Workers Training Center (HWTC)

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Los Angeles Mayors Office

• Establish collaboration among different
• agencies participating in the consortium

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LAUSD and LACCD

• Skills Assessment
• Childcare for participants children (?)
• Courses (including facilities and instructors)
• 1. Basic Skills, including literacy, ESL/VESL,
  computer skills, and survival skills (effective
  communication, personal budgeting, etc.)
• 2. C.N.A, LVN education

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WIB

• Funding for 50 of project, with the remaining
  50 to be covered by in-kind contributions by
  other project partners
• Total estimated annual cost 900,000, with WIB
  providing 450,000 towards this goal

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HWTC

• Project Coordination
• Outreach to potential participants
• Assessment mechanism
• Career counseling and job placement
• EOS and mentor programs to guide participants
  through the program.