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Governor’s Funding Category:
Industries with a Statewide Need – Nurses and other health related industries – Award List and Project Summaries

On March 18, 2005, grants were awarded to 18 organizations under the Governor’s Funding Category Industries with a Statewide Need – Nurses and other health related industries. Project descriptions, award amounts and contact information are listed below.

Awardees	WIA 15 Percent Amount	Wagner Peyser Amount	Award Amount
Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc.	$720,000	$80,000	$800,000
Cedars Sinai Medical Center	$635,570	$163,016	$798,586
Fresno County	$628,584	$171,416	$800,000
Humboldt County	$728,084	$71,916	$800,000
Imperial Valley Regional Occupation	$722,740	$77,260	$800,000
Long Beach City	$654,426	$145,574	$800,000
Los Angeles City College	$720,000	$80,000	$800,000
Merced County	$683,616	$0	$683,616
Mount San Antonio College	$606,108	$193,892	$800,000
Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium	$785,000	$15,000	$800,000
Orange County	$775,000	$25,000	$800,000
Rural Human Services Incorporated	$450,000	$50,000	$500,000
Sacramento Employment Training Agency	$720,000	$80,000	$800,000
Solano County	$660,000	$140,000	$800,000
Stanislaus County	$412,500	$44,000	$456,500
Verdugo Consortium	$400,200	$22,500	$422,700
West Hills Community College District	$720,000	$80,000	$800,000
Youth Policy Institute	$720,000	$80,000	$800,000
Total	$11,741,828	$1,519,574	$13,261,402

Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc. 3250 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1010 Los Angeles, CA 90010	Robert Gutierrez (213) 736-5456
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc. and its’ Collaborative Network of Partners will provide outreach and recruitment to 160 younger and older youth, offering to them the required information, training and workshops about a wide spectrum of career-ladder opportunities within the allied healthcare industry. For younger youth, emphasis will be placed on exposing them to healthcare through workshops with healthcare professionals, field trips, work experience, job shadowing and education. Older youth will have the opportunity to explore healthcare through current labor market information and training in a wide range of career choices. Financial support through paid internships, tuition assistance and scholarships will be provided.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center 8700 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048	Jane Swanson (310) 423-5185
Award Amount: $798,586
Summary: The proposed project will establish a collaborative nursing career advancement program bringing El Camino and Santa Monica Community Colleges, Hollywood Work Source Center and Cedars-Sinai together to increase the number of licensed nurses in the Los Angeles area. The project reflects a unique effort to expand the capacity of ASN degree nursing programs while targeting WIA eligible disadvantaged individuals from ethnically diverse, underrepresented groups for the educational opportunities offered by this project. Through the delivery of intensive mentoring, paid release time, tuition assistance and other services provided by project partners, typical student attrition rates would be substantially decreased.
Fresno County 2035 Tulare Street, Suite 203 Fresno, CA 93721	Blake Koncazl (559) 490-7102
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: This project will serve 130 incumbent workers in three urban locations—Stockton/Modesto, Fresno, and Bakersfield—where Kaiser Permanente and Catholic Healthcare West, two major Valley healthcare providers have facilities and whose allied health workers are represented by SEIU United Health Care Workers West. This project will build upon the highly successful NWI project the FCWIB administers with its service provider partners, Kaiser Permanente and SEIU’s Shirley Ware Education Center. The project will provide 40 participants licensed nurse training, another 40 with pre-requisite nursing courses, and train/upgrade 30 workers into entry-level patient care jobs.
Humboldt County 520 E Street Eureka, CA 95501	Jacqueline Debets (707) 445-7747
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: The Redwood Coast Nursing Career Training program will substantially increase the capacity of our local training facilities to accept and train qualified applicants, increase the number of local residents choosing a healthcare occupation, and graduate an additional 141 qualified healthcare workers. We have identified the key constraints for our local training facilities, for our rural hospitals, and for healthcare workers in training. A WIB-led local collaboration will target the funds to alleviate these constraints, leverage existing one-stop partner programs, and get more people trained and employed along the entire nursing career ladder.
Imperial Valley Regional Occupation 687 State Street El Centro, CA 92243	Mary Camacho (760) 482-2600
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: Project Uniting Nursing Opportunities, proposed by IVROP, proposes to serve and meet the educational and employment needs of 217 WIA eligible youth and adults. Goals of the project are to provide 10 program elements for 200 youth by exposing them to a variety of health careers that will pique their interest in a health career and encourage them to enroll in post-secondary education and complete their education in a health profession. Educational and training opportunities will be offered to17 RN students to ensure the likelihood that they will complete their educational program and become employed as a registered nurse.
Long Beach City 200 Pine Avenue, Suite 400 Long Beach, CA 90802	Bryan Rogers (5620 570-3701
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: The Greater Long Beach Healthcare Collaborative Project is designed to increase the number of Registered Nurses (RNs), Radiologic Technologists (RTs), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists (MRITs) employed at hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the Long Beach area through a collaborative partnership between the City of Long Beach Workforce Development Bureau (WDB), Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC), Miller Children's Hospital (MCH), and Long Beach City College (LBCC). Activities will include strategies to increase program retention rates, expanding enrollment in the RT program, and implementing a new education program for MRITs
Los Angeles City College 855 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90029	Richard Galope (323) 953-4000
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: Los Angeles City College (LACC) proposes to establish The Healthcare CareerLINCCS Initiative – LACC Integrated Nursing Careers Capacity-Building System (LINCCS). The objective is linkage through integration of workforce preparation systems to enhance local capacity to train new and incumbent healthcare workers, thus reducing critical labor shortages of licensed nursing and allied health workers facing the region. To achieve this, a three-tiered nursing workforce career ladder will be created, consisting of Tier One – Comprehensive Healthcare Technician (CHT): Certified Nurse Assistant / Home Health Aide / Medical Assistant / Phlebotomy Technician; Tier Two – Licensed Vocational Nurse; and Tier Three – Registered Nurse.
Merced County 1880 West Wardrobe Avenue Merced, CA 95340	Joanne Presnell (209) 724-2041
Award Amount: $683,616
Summary: These projects will proactively address the critical nursing shortage in Merced County by continuation of the expanded nursing program at Merced College to graduate more local nurses. Secondly, to address issues related to training, retention and an educational lattice for Medical Assistants we will conduct a regional study. The study will gather information to determine current physician and employer medical assistant training qualification and retention needs, and determine the feasibility of developing an educational lattice from medical assistant curriculum to the local nursing program.
Mount San Antonio College 1100 North Grand Avenue, Building 30 Walnut, CA 91789	Jesus Oliva (909) 594-5611
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: To assist the nursing shortage in California, the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center (RHORC) has developed a comprehensive e nursing pathway that addresses the nursing shortage two-fold. The Pathway will assist the communities in need with licensed Registered Nurses and will provide culturally and linguistically competent health care workers to the workforce addressing the needs of the safety net. This pathway Is designed to assist the Foreign Trained Registered Nurse, who is already here, or any Board Eligible Nurse prepared for the state NCLEX. This project will produce a minimum of 160 nurses to serve within the Los Angeles county region.
Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium 7420 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969	Terriane Brown (530) 872-9600
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: The purpose of this project is to establish a career ladder and provide local training opportunities for 152 individuals interested in obtaining certification/licensure as a Registered Nurse, Licensed Vocational Nurse, Medical Assistant, or Certified Nursing Assistant in six rural counties in Northern California that are part of the rural nine county NoRTEC Workforce Investment area (Northern Rural Training & Employment Consortium).
Orange County 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building B, 3^rd Floor Santa Ana, CA 92705	Andrew Munoz (714) 567-7370
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: The Orange County Workforce Investment Board is applying for funds to assist in the transition of License Vocational Nurses (LVN) to Registered Nurse (RN) status. The program is a multi-county project that will utilize Cypress, Golden West, Saddleback, Mt. San Jacinto, and Victor Valley community colleges as training providers. Trainees will include students from college waiting lists and incumbent LVNs from participating hospitals. Project employers include Anaheim and Orange Coast Memorial Hospitals, Barstow Community, Mission, and Desert Valley Community Hospitals. The enrollment and outcome plan will be for a cohort of 60 participants receiving skills upgrades to become Registered Nurses.
Rural Human Services Incorporated 286 M Street, Suite A Crescent City, CA 95531	Dennis Conger (707) 464-7441
Award Amount: $500,000
Summary: The Promoting Health Education Workforce Opportunities in Del Norte County (PHEWO) project will enable Del Norte County residents from disadvantaged backgrounds to access educational opportunities in the field of nursing that might otherwise be closed to them. The PHEWO project will focus on minority populations, especially Hispanic, Native American and Hmong, and economically and/or educationally disadvantaged youth and adults and will assist by providing pre-entry preparation, student incentives, supportive services, and retention activities. Pre-entry activities will focus on Del Norte High School students and adults who are in need of preparation activities to be successful in nursing education. In addition to its standard WIA Youth offerings, the RHS Del Norte Workforce Center staff will provide additional pre-entry activities to enrollees of this program specifically geared to the nursing profession, such as sponsoring a future nurses club, medical terminology instruction, field trips to nursing institutions and clinical settings, reinforcement and/or enrichment of science and math skills, and more.
Sacramento Employment Training Agency 925 Del Paso Boulevard Sacramento, CA 95815	Cindy Sherwood-Green (916) 263-3857
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: The purpose of this proposal is to increase the labor pool of Registered Nurses (RNs) and RNs from underrepresented linguistic and cultural groups by training forty incumbent healthcare workers and ten Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) to become Associate Degreed Nurses through Los Rios Community College District and ten LVNs or ADNs to become Bachelor of Science Nurses through California State University, Sacramento for a total of sixty new or upgraded RNs. Additionally, twenty immigrant candidates with healthcare training and experience in their countries-of-origin will be recruited for re-entry into the regional healthcare profession as nurses or other allied health professionals.
Solano County 320 Campus Lane Fairfield, CA 94534	Robert Bloom (707) 863-3501
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: This project is a regional response to a clear and present workforce crisis. The collective efforts or the area's hospitals, public educational systems (most notably the community colleges), and workforce development systems will: a) access non-traditional labor pools; b) expand training programs; and c) increase student graduation/certification rates. The end result: 170 additional, qualified healthcare workers trained where they are needed most. This project builds on the active work of the two area Hospital Councils (with a collective commitment of $435,000 in cash match from area hospitals), and the NBEC group, which has a highly successful history administering State-funded healthcare projects, such as the CTI and NWI projects.
Stanislaus County 251 East Hackett Road C-2 Modesto, CA 95358	Jeff Rowe (209) 558-2150
Award Amount: $456,500
Summary: This project will: Produce an additional class of 30 incumbent workers in a CNA to LVN skill upgrade program. The class will be funded through a combination of Governor's 15 percent funds, Community College Apportionment funding, local WIA formula funds, and employer sponsorship match funding.- Expand the LVN program from its current Stanislaus County only status to a regional program that includes Merced, Toulumne, Mariposa, Amador, and Calaveras counties.- Build another rung on the Nursing Career Ladder by developing a LVN to RN skill upgrade training program, and produce the first class of 20 graduates of this program.
Verdugo Consortium 1255 South Central Avenue Glendale, CA 91204	Stuart Knox (818) 409-0476
Award Amount: $422,700
Summary: In the eastern San Fernando Valley region of L.A. County, five medical centers serving a 926,000-person area expect a combined 400 to 500 unfilled nursing openings within the next 18 months. The Verdugo WIB has united the medical centers with community colleges and others to remove barriers to increasing the volume of local nursing graduates. The regional consortium's target is to train 100 nursing students. The project would train 54 new nursing school students. Also, the medical centers' greatest needs are in the specialty nursing areas. The consortium would fund training that will put 46 additional students on a path toward careers in high-need specialty nursing areas.
West Hills Community College District 300 Cherry Lane Coalinga, CA 93210	Carole Goldsmith (559) 934-2131
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: West Hills College District, a Regional leader in WIA Health Care Initiatives, is proposing to continue the "expanded capacity" training program for Psychiatric Technicians to work at the new Coalinga State Mental Hospital that will need 850 Psychiatric Technicians and will open in September 2005. This proposal will produce 150 additional Psych Techs whose entry-level salary is $42,000 a year. The economic impact of these salaries, in this highly rural area with double digit unemployment rates and poverty levels among the highest in the nation, will generate over $6,300,000 annually of additional revenue to an area nicknamed "Western Appalachia".
Youth Policy Institute 634 South Spring Street, Suite 818 Los Angeles, CA 90014	Dixon Slingerland (213) 688-2802
Award Amount: $800,000
Summary: Medical Office Careers will train 105 low-income participants for stable careers as medical assistants in hospitals, doctor offices, pharmacies, and clinics. Participants will come from Pico Union and East San Fernando Valley, two of the poorest communities in Los Angeles and California. The program will work with government and private organizations, including the Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board and LAUSD. Participants will receive on-the-job training in medical records, insurance billing and coding and medical terminology at partnering hospitals. Youth Policy Institute has a successful track record in training 130 participants in Medical Office Careers over the past three years.

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