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Funding Application
Guidelines - Healthcare Workforce Initiative -
Teach for the
Health of It Program - Targeted Industries
- Healthcare |
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Project of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and
Regulation, Governor's Workforce Investment Board
I.
Background and Information
In Maryland, as in the rest of the Nation, a crisis exists in the form of a
healthcare workforce shortage. The
Maryland Governor’s Workforce Investment Board (GWIB) recruited
employers, State licensing boards, education representatives, the
U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Defense, and allied
State agencies to form a Healthcare Workforce Steering Committee
charged with implementing a cluster-based approach to the healthcare
workforce shortage, the GWIB Healthcare Workforce Initiative.
The Healthcare Workforce Steering
Committee researched current and projected healthcare industry
workforce demands in Maryland, as well as best practices from around the nation for alleviating
the drastic healthcare workforce shortage. On August 28, 2003, over 160 participants representing over
650 employers from the healthcare industry, State educational
systems, licensing boards, and relevant State agencies attended the
Governor’s Healthcare Workforce Summit in Annapolis. At this
Summit, the participants debated the previously researched workforce
strategies and built consensus for an action plan.
One
chosen strategy is increasing the capacity of nursing programs in Maryland. Even as we are
experiencing a nursing shortage in the State, we continue to turn
away nursing program applicants because of a lack of faculty. Federal grant funds have been awarded to the Department of
Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (DLLR) and GWIB to support Maryland’s effort to increase the number of faculty members teaching in
the State’s nursing programs. This approach, called the Teach
for the Health of It program,
will have an immediate impact on the critical workforce shortage in
this vital industry by enabling the affected schools to accept more
nursing students. Maryland, with properly focused resources, anticipates placing a significant
number of nurses into faculty positions in nursing programs within a
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II.
Purpose of Program
The Governor's Workforce Investment
Board (GWIB) Healthcare Workforce Steering Committee has placed a
priority on increasing the nursing program faculty at teaching
institutions throughout the State of Maryland in order to boost the capacity to train nurses in the State.
The U.S. Department of Labor agreed with this tactic and
awarded the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation
(DLLR) and the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board (GWIB)
$800,000 to implement the Teach for the Health of It program.
This program is intended to facilitate the movement of forty
or more qualified Registered Nurses into teaching positions.
Teach for the Health of It is
a scholarship program with two components. The first component is designed to place Master’s prepared
Registered Nurses into nursing faculty positions as soon as
possible. The second
component is intended to offset the Registered Nurse vacancies
caused by the healthcare employer’s release of nurses to become
faculty members. It is
understood that this may not be a one-for-one skills match.
Teach for the Health of It
involves partnerships between at least one healthcare provider
institution and at least one educational institution. Others may be included in this partnership as well, as long
as this minimum criterion is met. The healthcare employer will agree to release incumbent
Master’s prepared Registered Nurses to teach as faculty members in
the educational institution’s nursing program.
Nursing
Faculty Component
Scholarships of up to $10,000 are
available for Master’s prepared Registered Nurses to obtain any
additional credentials necessary to become nursing program faculty
members. Each
partnership will create a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that
specifies the parameters for the project. In the MOU, the partners will define their plan to select
qualified participants from the healthcare provider institution’s
staff. The new
faculty member will remain on his/her current employer’s payroll
and continue to collect his/her wage and benefits while teaching. Through the partnership’s MOU, the educational institution
to which the new faculty member is assigned, will reimburse the
employer the salary the educational institution would normally pay
its faculty members. Mutually
acceptable alternatives developed by the partnership will be
considered.
Succession
Planning Component
Scholarships
of up to $10,000 are also available for students enrolled in nursing
education programs. The
scholarships are being offered to help develop staff to fill
vacancies created by the institution's involvement in the Teach
for the Health of It program.
These scholarships may be used to aid students in
completing their education as quickly as possible. Allowable
expenses include tuition, books and fees. Living expenses for the student are not allowable.
Students may be employees of the sponsoring institution or
individuals recruited specifically for the program. They may
be enrolled in entry-level Registered Nursing programs (full- or
part-time, traditional or accelerated programs, or evening
and weekend), BSN completion, graduate studies, or
certificate programs to prepare nurses for educational roles. Priority
will be given to aiding students who will receive a Master’s
degree in nursing with an emphasis in education so that supported
students will also be eligible for nursing faculty positions in the
future. |
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III. Application Submission
The funding period for Teach for
the Health of It is two years. Priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate the
most expedient impact. Applications,
therefore, will be primarily judged by how well the proposal
fulfills this purpose. In
addition, priority will be given to proposals that include an
in-depth approach to sustaining the project after the funding time
period. Consideration
will also be given to the geographic distribution of awards across
the State. Funds will
not supplant funding that is already available to institutions.
Applications
and guidelines are be available by postal mail, email, or from the
GWIB or DLLR website.
For applications and guidelines via email, please contact the
Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Division of Workforce
Development between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday
through Friday at 410-767-2999.
Information sessions are available on
demand basis in order to answer questions. To schedule a session, please use the contact information
below.
Applications must be submitted no later than March 15, 2005. Letters of Intent must be submitted no later than February 1, 2005.
Applications should be submitted only by email to
hci@dllr.state.md.us.
Specific names of individuals to
receive scholarships or support through this program will not be
required in the application. After
receiving an award, however, the partnership must provide the names
of scholarship recipients to the DLLR, Division of Workforce
Development within sixty days. Funds
will be released upon confirmation of student enrollment. All funding will go to the educational institution.
No funding will go directly to an individual.
Applicants
will be notified of decisions approximately 15 days after the
receipt of application. |
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Dates: |
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| End of August 2004 |
Guidelines and
Applications released |
| September 15, 2004 |
Applications may
be submitted |
| February 1, 2005 |
Letter of Intent must be Submitted |
| March 15, 2005 |
Final date of application submission |
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Any questions should be
addressed to:
Sharon
Harris
Department
of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Division of Workforce
Development
1100 North Eutaw Street, Room 616,
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone:
410-767-2999, Fax: 410-333-5355
Email: hci@dllr.state.md.us
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The total funding for this healthcare initiative is $1,500,000 and
split into two different programs. These guidelines are only applicable to the portion of the
grant referred to as the Teach for the Health of It program. The other portion of the grant is an incumbent worker
training program. |
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these guidelines in MSWord format |
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