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News Release
ETA News Release: [03/26/2004]
Contact Name: Lorette
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Phone Number: (202) 693-3984
Grant is Part of Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative
WASHINGTONU.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced a grant of $113,296 to the National Foundation for the Advancement of Elder and Disabled Care in America, part of the American Health Care Association (AHCA). The grant, part of the Bush Administrations High Growth Job Training Initiative, will develop Best Practice models to address the workforce challenges faced by nursing homes.
Today we are announcing another grant in a $24.4 million effort to help train workers for jobs in the high growth health sector of our economy, said Chao. With this $113,000 grant, the American Health care Association will develop a model program designed to improve recruitment for long-term health care jobs. If this program is effective, we can expand and duplicate it throughout the country.
Among the objectives of the grant are a practical how to guide for nursing home managers and administrators to combat the nursing shortage in long-term care. The grant will also help long-term care providers to connect with the public workforce investment system to improve recruitment efforts and make the profession more attractive to prospective employees.
The grant was presented to AHCA by the Labor Departments Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Emily Stover DeRocco. The health care industry is predicted to grow at a rate of 28 percent between 2002 and 2012, adding 3.5 million new jobs, said DeRocco. This grant will support a template for partnership between nursing homes and the public workforce system that will help recruit and prepare workers to continue providing quality long-term health care to Americas seniors.
AHCA and the National Commission on the Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care will support the project. Both organizations will work to communicate and implement the Best Practice models identified by the project.
The Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative is a strategic effort to better prepare workers to take advantage of new job opportunities in high growth sectors of the American economy. Through executive forums with leaders of expanding industries, critical workforce gaps and issues are identified. Solutions, like todays grant, are then created in cooperation with employers, educational institutions and the public workforce system. Health care is the first in a series of industry rollouts planned under the Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative.
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