The Missouri Community College Association’s MoHealthWINs grant office hosted a summit recently at Camden on the Lake in Lake Ozark for state workforce officials, local workforce investment boards and community college leaders. The statewide consortium grant partners came together to implement activities in support of the $20 million MoHealthWINs grant.
The program will train more than 3,200 Missourians for healthcare jobs across the state. Those eligible to receive training include persons receiving Trade Adjustment Act assistance, as well as the unemployed, underemployed and under-skilled. Innovative and accelerated educational opportunities will be administered at Missouri’s community colleges and Linn State Technical College in support of several healthcare occupations, including health informatics and nursing.
- 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, and enhance relationships between colleges and the public workforce system.
- 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.
- Priority 3: Build Programs that Meet Industry Needs. 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 hybrid, technology-enabled programs, including strategies to help becoming a successful online learner and digital literacy courses.