By the end of March, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) expects to choose an executive director to lead a bold new health care program in Cuyahoga County. A regional search began following the announcement, in September 2019, that Tri-C would take the lead on health care workforce development as proposed by Workforce Connect.
Workforce Connect is a public- private partnership involving the City of Cleveland, the Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga County, Deaconess Foundation, Fund for Our Economic Future, Greater Cleveland Partnership, The George Gund Foundation, Cleveland/Cuya- hoga County Workforce Development Board, Team NEO and United Way of Greater Cleveland. Those organizations have come together to address a lack of skilled workers in the county. Health care is one of three areas where WorkForce Connect is focusing attention; the others are manufacturing and information technology.
Based on successful sector intermediary models established in other major U.S. metros, Workforce Connect coordinates a designated intermediary that pulls together businesses within an industry to address talent gaps. The intermediary collaborates with those businesses, higher ed institutions, social service providers and others to develop potential short- and long-term solutions.
The Workforce Connect Healthcare Sector Partnership, with Tri-C as the intermediary, is the second sector partnership here. The first — manufacturing — was announced in December 2018, with MAGNET and the Greater Cleveland Partnership as co-intermediaries. The Workforce Funders Group expects to announce the information technology intermediary later this year.
"We're working closely with the Funders Group of WorkForce Connect to interview candidates to become the health care intermediary executive director," said William Gary, executive vice president of workforce, community and economic development at Tri-C. "We've been looking for someone who knows how to navigate project management, knows how to build relationships, can interface with the leadership of the hospital systems. We need someone who understands the ecosystem of health care and the training that adds value to it."
That new executive director will work with employers, develop resources, coordinate communication and link partnership activities to initiatives and resources of the broader workforce ecosystem. The targeted outcome is more skilled health care workers for local hospital systems. The hospitals collaborating in these efforts include Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, The MetroHealth System, Sisters of Charity Health System and the Veterans Health Administration.
"The new position will help identify populations in our community that are underserved and lack training opportunities," Gary said, adding that this audience will be linked with training opportunities to prepare them for skilled jobs in the health care field — jobs such as nurses, radiation therapists and patient care navigators, among others.
Currently, Tri-C offers training in more than 30 professionally accredited health care fields of study. In fact, the college ranks 10th in the nation in the conferring of associate degrees in health professions and related sciences. Most health career programs take two years and lead to an Associate in Applied Science degree. Short-term certificates are available in many other health career programs.
"Training skilled workers is what we've been doing for years," said Gary. "Now, we'll be coordinating the collaborative relationships of different hospitals. We can collect, analyze and share data on how to address workforce needs by developing programs curriculum and training. By identifying common priority training needs, we can achieve economies of scale."
"The most significant hospital systems are at the table, committed to work together," reported Deborah Vesy, chair of the Workforce Funders Group for WorkForce Connect. "Despite working in a highly competitive environment, the employers see the value of a systems-level approach which has the capacity to create reliable talent pipelines that address their workforce needs and reduce barriers to employment and career advancement for workers and job seekers."
In September 2018, Cuyahoga County approved up to $1 million for Workforce Connect over the next three years, supplemented by an additional combined commitment of up to $1.5 million from the other members of the Workforce Funders Group.
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