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Workforce Development Initiatives

• Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
  • Bridge Program: Preliminary Description
  • Local Workforce Investment Area (LWIA) Contact List
  • Bridge Program: Request for Proposal (Issued August 17)
    • Request for Proposal Pre-Application (due September 21)
    • Request for Proposal Application Format (due September 28)
       
• Illinois Board of Higher Education Public Agenda for College and Career Success
  • IBHE Public Agenda Statewide Plan for Workforce Development (4/14/09)
  • Final Public Agenda Report (1/9/09)
    • Executive Summary (6/11/09)
  • PowerPoint Presentations from Regional Forums
  • IHA Response:
    • IHA Workforce Task Force Comment Letter (11/5/08)
    • IHA Hospital Tool: IBHE Opportunities (11/5/08)

Workforce Investment Boards

• The Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago
  - Healthcare Workforce: Turning Crisis into Opportunity, Jan. 2007 (NOTE: Large document, may take time to download.)
  - CCC4C: Community College Consortium for Health Care
• Northwest Illinois Workforce Investment Board
  - Northwest Illinois Nursing Collaborative (NINC)
  - Northern Stateline Critical Skill Shortages Initiative in Health Care
• Central Illinois - CSSI Consortium - Jan. 24, 2008 Meeting, Springfield, IL
  - Central Region Status Report 2005-2007
  - Regional Summary (PowerPoint)
  - Meeting Notes
  - Hospital Scholarships/Tuition Reimbursement Information

Regional Consortiums

• Southern Illinois Online Nursing Initiative (SIONI)
• South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium's (SMHEC) Standard Clinical Affiliation Agreement Project
  - Standard Affiliation Agreement Registration
  - The Standard Clinical Agreement (PowerPoint presentation)
  - Clinical Affiliation Letter
• Partners in Nursing of Central Illinois (RWJ)
• DuPage Area Healthcare Leadership Council (DAHLC)

Rural Connections

• Reversing the Trend of Health Care Workforce Shortages in Rural Illinois (Matthew L. Hunsasker, MD, The National Center for Rural Health Professionals)
• Calling All Rural Pharmacists (PowerPoint presentation by David Bartels, PharmD, Vice Dean & Clinical Professor, University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Rockford)
• Experience a Team Approach to Rural Practice (six-week residential field experience - May 28-July 9, 2008, Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital)
• Connect SI Nursing Council - Governor's Sub Cabinet Nursing Project
• Rockford Rural Health Center