Project Title: 21st Century Learning STEM Equipment
Project
Recipient: Pierce College
Amount: $475,000
Location: Puyallup and Lakewood,
Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Pierce College to enhance the level of education they provide by purchasing high-tech, hands-on science, technology, mathematics, engineering, and nursing learning equipment to enhance the quality of education.
Importance: By providing advanced learning tools, funding for this project would prepare students for careers in promising science and technology industries.
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Project Title: Afterschool Violence Prevention
Program
Recipient: TOGETHER!
Amount: $120,000
Location: Lacey, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow TOGETHER! to prevent youth violence by providing elementary school students with a proven social skills program to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior.
Importance: This program will foster safer school and neighborhood environments by providing children with the skills they need to address challenging situations in a non-violent manner.
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Project Title: Bridging the Gap
Recipient: Coalition of Essential
Schools Northwest
Amount: $350,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Coalition of Essential Schools Northwest to provide out-of-school youth with the opportunity to receive education and career preparation.
Importance: By targeting a severely underserved population, this program will decrease the high school dropout rate and stimulate the local economy by preparing students for post-secondary education and careers.
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Project Title: Expansion and Renovation of
Central Washington Hospital’s Medical
Recipient: Central Washington
Hospital Campus
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Wenatchee, WA
Purpose: This funding will to support Central Washington’s expansion and renovation.
Importance: This funding will increase access to health care in Central Washington by aiding in the expansion of the emergency room at Central Washington Hospital, which is currently too small to meet the demand placed upon it. This project will double the size of the emergency room, allowing the hospital to handle increased visits and improving access to emergency care.
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Project Title: Center for Water Policy
Recipient: Eastern Washington
University
Amount: $300,000
Location: Spokane, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Eastern Washington University to educate, conduct research, and disseminate vital information on regional water issues.
Importance: Water is an increasingly complex issue in the inland Northwest. In addition to improving public awareness of water issues, the information provided by this funding would allow for more informed decision making about water use in the region.
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Project Title: College Readiness Program
Recipient: El Centro de la Raza
Amount: $100,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow El Centro de la Raza to increase the number of students that are prepared for and pursue post-secondary education by providing comprehensive counseling, tutoring, and educational services to Latino middle and high school students.
Importance: In addition to providing vital mentoring services to an underserved population, this funding would positively impact the community by engaging youth in education instead of negative behaviors.
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Project Title: Community Health
Improvement Initiative
Recipient: United General Hospital
Amount: $400,000
Location: Sedro Woolley, WA
Purpose: Funding would be used for the purchase of equipment for United General Hospital’s Community Health Improvement Initiative which includes the implementation of an electronic ICU, as well as purchasing bariatric equipment.
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Project Title: Dental Education in the Care
of Persons with Disabilities
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $569,200
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide equipment to assist in the renovation of the 35-year-old facility and will upgrade the clinic with the goal of improving the health and safety of patients.
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Project Title: Electronic Health
Records for Behavioral Health
Recipient: Behavioral Health
Resources
Amount: $500,000
Location: Olympia, WA
Purpose: This project is for the purchase of equipment to adopt electronic medical records, fully integrating an electronic health records system serving Thurston, Mason and Grays Harbor counties’ health care network.
Importance: Untreated mental illness often results in uncorrelated overuse of emergency rooms and criminal justice resources. Electronic Health Care connectivity to hospital and court systems will lead to better communication and appropriate services for mentally ill individuals.
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Project Title: Electronic Medical
Patient Identification Clinical Data Exchange
Recipient: Valley Medical Center
Amount: $674,000
Location: Renton, WA
Importance: This project will save lives, increase Valley Medical Center’s ability to provide timely and accurate patient care by implementing a robust Electronic Medical Record system for the hundreds of thousands of citizens served by one of Washington State’s largest community/public hospital districts.
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Project Title: Emergency Department
Capacity Expansion Project
Recipient: Virginia Mason Medical
Center
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Importance: Virginia Mason’s new Emergency Department will meet the growing demand for health care sought reducing wait times for patients and reducing delays for patients admitted to the Virginia Mason hospital through the emergency department. Virginia Mason’s new emergency department has been designed not to be bigger, but to be more efficient. The actual space of the new emergency department has been designed to promote the improved flow of patient care and abolish the waits and delays with the goal of increasing quality and reducing waste.
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Project Title: Early Intervention for Dropout
Prevention
Recipient: New Futures
Amount: $350,000
Location: Seattle, SeaTac, and
Burien, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow New Futures to provide low-income children and families with academic and developmental supports.
Importance: In addition to putting vulnerable youth on the path to success in education and careers, this program would work to lower the local rate of drug use, teen pregnancy, and gang involvement.
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Project Title: Early Learning Skill and
Knowledge Development for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care
Providers
Recipient: Ready by Five Yakima
Amount: $250,000
Location: Yakima, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Ready by Five Yakima to provide informal child care providers such as family or neighbors with early childhood learning skill and knowledge development.
Importance: In Yakima County, sixty percent of child care is provided by friends, family, or neighbors. This program will help these children obtain the necessary skills they need in order to arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
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Project Title: Expanding Specialty
Health Care Services for the Low Income Residents in Snohomish and King
County
Recipient: King County Project Access
Amount: $40,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This project is for the purchase of one-time equipment and supplies for the expansion of King County Project Access.
Importance: King County Project Access connects low-income, uninsured and publically insured patients with a network of 500 specialty physicians, hospitals and ancillary services in King County and is growing to serve Snohomish County patients with Snohomish County physicians, hospitals and ancillary services. Without this network of services, many of these patients would not see specialists because of lack of access or cost and this request would provide equipment to allow King County Project Access the capability to help more patients.
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Project Title: Financial Literacy Training
Program
Recipient: Northwest Indian College
Amount: $410,000
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Northwest Indian College to expand financial literacy education opportunities.
Importance: The current economic climate has underscored the need for basic financial education in our country. Funding for this program will help hundreds of low-income tribal families achieve self-sufficiency through sound financial decisions.
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Project Title: Good Samaritan Hospital
Health Information Technology Advancement
Recipient: MultiCare Health System
Good Samaritan Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will help install wireless infrastructure and components in the new patient tower at Good Samaritan Hospital. This infrastructure will support patient, medication, bed and equipment tracking system through the use of radio frequency identification technology.
Importance: Funding for this project will benefit the residents of East Pierce County by improving health care efficiency while reducing unnecessary expenses and improving patient care. The project will lead the way with cutting-edge 21st century technology for Pierce County that will be a role model for hospitals locally and nationwide.
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Project Title: Health Care Employment
and Economic Development Initiative
Recipient: Health Work Force
Institute
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will go to facility improvement and operational costs for the Health Care Employment and Economic Development Initiative.
Importance: The health care workforce problem is multi-faceted in Washington state as the population is aging and growing, the labor force is aging and shrinking, and health care reform will increase demand for care. This funding will help rhe Health Work Force Institute’s is to identify the most promising strategies to address the health care workforce needs and to convene and facilitate collaboration among health care, education, philanthropic, and government sectors. These collaborations will attract and prepare many more health care workers to meet the rising demand.
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Project Title: Improving Health Care
Delivery through Technology
Recipient: Mid-Valley
Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Omak, WA
Purpose: This funding will go to provide equipment to upgrade hospital information systems at Mid-Valley Hospital.
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Project Title: Industry Skill Panels
Recipient: Washington State
Workforce Board
Amount: $1,470,000
Location: Olympia, WA
Purpose: This funding will expand and improve proven models for collaboration between employers, workforce development, and education to meet the employment needs of business and individuals.
Importance: This funding will help this program will provide workers with high-demand skill sets by improving the skill panels model of engaging and meeting the needs of key industry sectors and employers.
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Project Title: Institute for
Continuous Performance Improvement
Recipient: Seattle Children’s
Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: Funds would go toward facilities and equipment to establish an Institute for Continuous Performance Improvement, which would provide education and hand-on learning to external health care stakeholders on how to incorporate CPI principles into their clinical and operational settings.
Importance: This funding will help Seattle Children’s Hospital expand a health care system that delivers quality care efficiently, reduces medical errors, and improves patient satisfaction, all with the byproduct of cost reduction.
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Project Title: Legacy Pediatric
Critical Care Telemedicine Service
Recipient: Legacy Health
System
Amount: $125,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding will purchase mobile telemedicine units to improve pediatric health outcomes.
Importance: Funding for this project will extend emergency services to children in medically-underserved areas around southwest Washington by purchasing telemedicine units that would connect outlying clinics with Children’s Hospital for consults and help real-time diagnosis of children in underserved areas.
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Project Title: International Policy Center
Recipient: National Bureau of Asian
Research
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the National Bureau of Asian Research to launch an international policy center to further the nation’s defense and intelligence initiatives.
Importance: In the current global security climate, it is more important than ever to ensure that the nation has the most high-quality research and analysis available on critical issues like nuclear nonproliferation, energy security, and counterterrorism. This funding will help expand the National Bureau of Asian Research’s efforts to address these and other issues.
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Project Title: Mechanical Engineering
Equipment Program
Recipient: Olympic College
Amount: $370,000
Location: Bremerton, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Olympic College to provide a high-quality mechanical engineering degree program.
Importance: This program will stimulate the regional economy by providing students with access to a baccalaureate degree program in a field with high local demand.
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Project Title: Medical Residency
Program
Recipient: Skagit Valley Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Mount Vernon, WA
Purpose: This funding will purchase equipment and support improvement to facilities for a new 9,200 square foot graduate medical education and residence program at Skagit Valley Hospital.
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Project Title: Navos Mental Health
Center Facilities and Equipment
Recipient: Navos
Amount: $714,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding is to support
improvement to facilites and the purchase of equipment to assist with
the care of metal health patients in the new outpatient mental health
center at Navos.
Importance: This funding will help with the expansion of a new outpatient mental health center, which will replace an existing substandard facility and enhance the only non-profit organization in King County offering a full spectrum of mental health services for low-income adults and children.
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Project Title: Northern Border Policy
Institute
Recipient: Western Washington
University
Amount: $300,000
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Western Washington University to expand northern border trade research.
Importance: This project would seek to identify and remove barriers to economically-important trade between the US and Canada while at the same time maintaining crucial security measures that mitigate international terrorism.
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Project Title: Nursing Educational Equipment
Recipient: Pierce College Puyallup
Amount: $129,000
Location: Puyallup, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Pierce College Puyallup to purchase hands-on medical simulation equipment.
Importance: Simulation equipment provides hands-on training in a low-risk setting to improve the skills of the health care workforce. In addition to raising the quality of the college’s nursing program, this funding will help to build a skilled medical workforce to address the severe nursing shortage facing the region.
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Project Title: Nursing Education
Equipment and Teaching Lab
Recipient: Olympic College
Amount: $459,263
Location: Bremerton, WA
Purpose: This funding will help provide equipment and supplies for the Nursing Education Equipment and Teaching Lab project that will centralize training services on the Olympic College campus to help expand the health care workforce.
Importance: This funding will increase the capacity of the nursing program at Olympic College to help the current and projected need for trained nurses.
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Project Title: Pacific Rim Blood
Alliance Perfect Match Program
Recipient: Puget Sound Blood Center
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support equipment and supplies associated with research, clinical testing, equipment and recruitment to expand the Perfect Match Program to more minority donors and to add additional cord units to the available national registry.
Importance: This funding will help the Perfect Match program focuses on expanding the ethnic diversity of the blood donor population and increasing the ability to support serious medical needs of patients requiring frequent, multiple blood transfusions. Ethnically diverse patients requiring multiple transfusions need matched blood because there is a risk of serious, possibly fatal, complications if the blood is not perfectly matched – this blood is most likely found among donors of similar ethnic composition.
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Project Title: Peace Island Medical
Center
Recipient: PeaceHealth Whatcom Region
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Bellingham, WA
Purpose: This funding will go toward purchasing equipment and the improvement of facilites for the new Peace Island Medical Center, a Critical Access Hospital on San Juan Island, a rural and underserved island community.
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Project Title: Providence Program
of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Expansion
Recipient: Providence
ElderPlace Seattle and Heritage House at the Market
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will help with equipment purchase and facilities updates for the new PACE Center at Heritage House which will help to serve the need of elderly and vulnerable residents in surrounding downtown Seattle communities.
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Project Title: Push for Permanence
Recipient: Olive Crest Pacific
Northwest
Amount: $250,000
Location: Bellevue, Kennewick,
Spokane, and Tacoma, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Olive Crest Pacific Northwest to provide vital support services to foster children and children in unstable home situations, including the reunification of families and providing youth with successful living skills.
Importance: At a time when child abuse and neglect are reaching unprecedented levels, this funding will help at-risk children at a time when state budget crises are causing a significant reduction in resources that are available to support children in unstable situations or in foster care.
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Project Title: Rainer Beach Medical
and Dental Clinic
Recipient: Puget Sound Neighborhood
Health Centers
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would go to the purchase and installation of equipment for the new NeighborCare Health’s Southeast Family Dental Clinic.
Importance: The current dental clinic in Southeast Seattle is being forced to establish a new permanent clinic site as a result of Seattle Housing Authority redeveloping its current site. This clinic currently serves 4,300 patients annually and is the leading community health care provider of dental access to Seattle’s low-income and uninsured residents. This funding will purchase equipment for the new and expanded facility that will include medical and dental care in one.
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Project Title: Regional Education and
Training Center (RETC)
Recipient: Regional Education and
Training Center at Satsop
Amount: $900,000
Location: Elma, WA
Purpose: This funding will support programs providing rapid certifications, entry-level degrees and diplomas, and advanced certifications. RETC also will provide training facilities and resources for federal, state and local Homeland Security and Emergency Management personnel.
Importance: This funding will place between 800-1,000 unemployed workers or underemployed workers into family-wage jobs. RETC’s programs will partner with targeted employers and industries to ensure participants are ready for immediate employment.
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Project Title: Regional Skills Alignment
Project
Recipient: Workforce Development
Council (WDC) of Seattle-King County
Amount: $537,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will increase the number of K-12 students that are prepared for positions in key local industries, and will improve alignment of training programs with the needs of local employers.
Importance: This funding will help this program supports regional economic development by identifying and meeting the needs of high-growth/high-demand business sectors.
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Project Title: Renewable Energy and Sustainable
Technology Program
Recipient: Central Washington
University
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Ellensburg, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Central Washington University to launch the state’s first bachelor’s degree program in clean energy.
Importance: As the nation moves towards increased utilization of clean energy sources, it is vital to prepare a workforce to meet the demands of the new clean energy economy. Additionally, funding for this program will create jobs in and help to diversify the economy of a region particularly hard-hit by the current economic climate.
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Project Title: Road to Success
Recipient: South Central Workforce
Development Council
Amount: $2,253,664
Location: Yakima, WA
Purpose: This funding will develop green technology programs in local training institutions, and create career pathways to high wage jobs in the energy-efficient job sector.
Importance: Funding for this project will increase the capacity of training institutions, and expand class offerings to residents at all training levels, including those who lack adult basic education. The Road to Success program will train and place residents of Yakima, Kittitas, Klickitat, and Skamania counties in renewable energy and energy efficiency occupations.
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Project Title: School-Based Mentor Project
Recipient: Communities in
Schools of Spokane County
Amount: $150,000
Location: Cheney and Spokane,
Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Communities in Schools of Spokane County to expand a successful mentorship program to three new middle schools.
Importance: In the current economic climate, it is more important than ever that we ensure our nation’s students are acquiring a high school diploma to put them on the path to college or a career. This funding will support a proven mentorship program that provides at-risk children with a positive role model to guide them through the middle school years and on to high school graduation.
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Project Title: STEM 8th to 9th Grade
Transition to Success
Recipient: nConnect NW
Amount: $425,000
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow nConnect
NW to implement a program that prepares students to manage the
challenging transition from eighth to ninth grade, while at the same
time allowing them to gain familiarity with science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics careers.
Importance: This program will equip students with the skills they need to successfully manage the challenging transition from middle school to high school and put them on the path to graduation. It also prepares students for success in science, education, technology, and mathematics education and careers.
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Project Title: STEM Education Enhancement
Recipient: The Washington State STEM
Foundation
Amount: $500,000
Location: Richland, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Washington State STEM Foundation to provide increased access to cutting-edge science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning materials and equipment to students in the region.
Importance: The current economic climate has underscored the need to better prepare our nation’s students for jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers in order to prepare them for careers in the global 21st century economy.
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Project Title: STEM/Health Professions
Equipment
Recipient: Evergreen State College
Amount: $245,000
Location: Olympia, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow Evergreen State College to purchase crucial science equipment.
Importance: In addition to allowing the college to continue delivering high-quality science education, this funding would help prepare students for careers in fields such as medicine, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering.
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Project Title: STEM Industry-Based Teacher
Training Initiative
Recipient: Southwest Washington
Workforce Development Council
Amount: $266,000
Location: Clark and Cowlitz
Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council to provide middle and high school teachers with the knowledge and training they need to provide their students with high-quality science and mathematics education.
Importance: This funding will help provide our nation’s students with the science and mathematics education they need to go on to obtain careers in readily-available high-tech industries.
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Project Title: Southwest Washington
Telestroke Network
Recipient: Providence St. Peter
Hospital
Amount: $300,000
Location: Olympia, WA
Purpose: This funding is for the purchase of equipment for a broadband-based telestroke network that will allow physicians treating patients at rural hospitals to consult with a neurologist at Providence St. Peter Hospital.
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Project Title: Spinal Cord and Stroke
Patient Ambulation Project
Recipient: St. Luke's Rehabilitation
Institute
Amount: $200,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding will go toward a Lokomat robotically assisted partial weight suspension treadmill training device that has the potential to restore leg function in persons with incomplete leg paralysis.
Importance: This funding will help those with spinal cord injury and stroke to regain some mobility. The outcomes from this equipment will be shorter hospital stays and increased employability of patients.
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Project Title: St. John Medical Center
Simulation Education Project
Recipient: St. John Medical Center
Foundation
Amount: $189,544
Location: Longview, WA
Purpose: This funding will enable St. John Medical Center to purchase a programmable simulation “family” of mannequins which will be used throughout the region to provide unique medical training and education opportunities.
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Project Title: State-wide Nursing
Education Access Initiative
Recipient: University of
Washington-Bothell
Amount: $500,000
Location: Bothell, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide equipment to support the State-wide Nursing Education Access Initiative’s efforts in developing technology infrastructure and faculty development to increase the use of hybrid, on-line education in nursing.
Importance: This nation continues to face a nursing and nursing faculty shortage, which this proposal addresses. The technology will help reach out to underserved populations across the state and increase the number of nurses prepared to enter the workforce in their community as a nurse and or nursing faculty.
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Project Title: Telecom Employment Training for
Homeless & At-Risk Youth
Recipient: YouthCare
Amount: $200,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will develop industry-specific skills for youth between the ages of 16-21 to work in the telecommunications industry and help the program continue to focus on homeless youth, those aging out of foster care, and youth involved with the corrections system.
Importance: This funding will help YouthCare will address youth unemployment by providing industry-specific skills for entry into living wage jobs and a pathway into further education and careers.
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Project Title: Training Partnership
Telepresence Network
Recipient: SEIU Healthcare NW
Training Partnership
Amount: $400,000
Location: Federal Way, WA
Purpose: This funding will create Washington’s first telepresence technology network which will increase skills among home care aides in rural Washington by offering access to specialized home care training.
Importance: This funding will help to create at least 3,000 jobs in Washington and train other workers. The project will connect expert instructors with rural home care aide classrooms across Washington.
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Project Title: Transdisciplinary
Clinical Simulation Lab
Recipient: Tacoma Community College
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will purchase equipment for a proposed human patient simulation lab to be used across multiple disciplines.
Importance: Ensuring training is a major obstacle to expanding existing programs at Tacoma Community College to meet increasing health care workforce demands. This funding will purchase equipment which will support the establishment of a patient simulation lab which will expand this needed training in healthcare programs. This project will enhance training and skill competency for students preparing for high demand jobs in nursing and other allied health fields for which pronounced labor shortages continue to exist.
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Project Title: Tukwila/SeaTac Global
to Local Health Initiative
Recipient: Global to Local Health
Initiative
Amount: $615,000
Location: South King County,
Tukwila, SeaTac, WA
Purpose: This funding will go toward supplies
and equipment for the Global to Local Health Initiative, which will
serve Tukwila, SeaTac, and South King County residents who have little
or no access to basic health services and economic opportunity.
Importance: South King County is an increasingly
diverse and economically depressed community in need of simple,
alternative options to achieving healthier lifestyles and outcomes for
residents. Funding to expand the Global to Local
Health Initiative will bring to Washington state strategies that have
been used effectively in other locations to address health disparities,
piloting approaches to improve health outcomes, lowering health care
costs, and empowering economic development.
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Project Title: Veterans Women Program (VWP)
Recipient: Partners in Careers
Amount: $100,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding will go towards the creation of pre-employment training programs that will serve 150 female veterans. VWP will also develop job shadowing, internship, and job placement opportunities for female veterans.
Importance: This funding will coordinate existing programs and resources in Washington State to more efficiently deliver benefits to women veterans with the goal of preventing homelessness and strengthening families.
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Project Title: Washington Aerospace Training
& Research Center (WATR)
Recipient: Edmonds Community College
Amount: $750,000
Location: Lynnwood,
WA
Purpose: This funding will go towards the
purchase of state-of-the-art lab equipment to allow the community
college to hire administration and subject matter experts to train
students in aerospace technological skills.
Importance: This funding will help Edmonds Community
College continue to act as the coordinating entity and liaison with
industries and statewide community colleges to meet the training needs
of the aerospace industry. This program will address the local demand
for aerospace workers to better enable them to meet the challenges they
face in the field.
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Project Title: Washington Early Literacy
Success
Recipient: Thrive by Five Washington
Amount: $500,000
Location: Statewide (Washington)
Purpose: This funding would allow Thrive by Five Washington to enhance and expand early childhood literacy programs across the state.
Importance: Taxpayers currently pay the cost of remediation, special education, and intervention for children who do not have adequate support during early childhood. This funding will enhance the capacity of early childhood professionals across the state to support infants, toddlers, and their families to help avert language, development, and learning difficulties.
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Project Title: Washington State
Prescription Drug Foundation Expansion
Recipient: Northwest Hospital and
Medical Center
Amount: $632,000
Location: Tacoma, Colville,
Centralia, Port Angeles and Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will help expand the Washington State Prescription Drug Foundation to additional Washington state cities.
Importance: This funding will expand the Washington State Prescription Drug Foundation which is a vital resource to Washington state residents who are unable to afford prescription drugs. Working with local clinics and other organizations, PDAF works to find those who need assistance and then help them access existing private and public assistance programs more effectively. These prescriptions support Washingtonians in staying healthy which allows them to continue working and helps minimizes unneeded health care visits.
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Project Title: West Campus Tower
Expansion
Recipient: Grays Harbor Community
Hospital
Amount: $934,000
Location: Aberdeen, WA
Purpose: This funding will go toward
supplies and equipment for the expansion of Gray Harbor Community
Hospital West Campus tower.
Importance: Over the last five years, the need to expand patient services on Washington's Central Pacific Coast has increased significantly, with surgical volumes in the area expected to grow by 25 to 30 percent. As a result, there is a growing need for more operating rooms. This funding will help with an expansion of the Grays Harbor Community Hospital which will improve patient safety and capacity on rural Washington's central Pacific Coast, allowing for more patients to get care locally and not have to travel to Seattle for care.
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Project Title: Workforce Training Equipment
Upgrade
Recipient: Everett Community College
Amount: $437,164
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding will go towards upgrading classrooms and labs for the community college’s advanced technological training courses. Course curriculum will reflect equipment upgrades.
Importance: Funding for the Workforce Training Equipment Upgrade will help Everett Community College meet industry standards for its Nursing and Health Sciences, Aviation Maintenance Technology and Welding programs. An estimated 1600 students will be trained in the upgraded classrooms and labs and will be better prepared for employment in a wide variety of fields.
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Project Title: Yes! Youth Empowered to
Succeed
Recipient: Tacoma-Pierce County E
and T Consortium
Amount: $400,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will allow underprivileged youth to participate in a paid internship based on their career interests. Participants will gain work readiness skills and obtain technical skills while interning.
Importance: This program will allow young adults who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to participate in a paid internship program. The program will help disadvantaged youth become economically self-sufficient and will provide a gateway to further education.