Post on 23-Dec-2015
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Grantee: NC Department of
Health and Human Services
North Carolina PHCAST Demonstration Grant
PHCAST is Funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Key Concepts
1. Builds on prior direct care workforce (DCW) initiatives in NC and Partner Team approach to development and implementation
2. Strengthens new AND incumbent direct care worker training
3. Uses a 4-phase framework that integrates training pathways for direct care workers across long term care settings
4. Expands state-recognized DCW career path options
5. Improves all training using adult-centered learning strategies to increase access to health care jobs
6. PHCAST training/competency can be integrated with other initiatives to improve direct care jobs
PHCAST Personal and Home Care State Training
COMPONENTS
Phase I - Job readiness, Literacy/Numeracy, keyboarding and realistic job previewing skills
Phase II - Non-Nurse Aide personal care task and soft skills development
Phase III - Enhanced Nurse Aide content/delivery
Phase IV - Advanced Nurse Aide I knowledge & skills- Home Care Nurse Aide (new) focuses on specific care environment. This phase will also create a track parallel to Geriatric aide or Medication aide career path options for nurse aides in NC.
NC PHCAST Project Status
Curricula/competencies developed (Phases I, II, IV Home Care) & pilots on-going
Revised Phase III (NA) curriculum & available for statewide use - required use by Fall 2013.
NC Home Care Aide Registry implemented
Compiling pilot feedback for curricula revisions (I, II & IV)
Adult Care Home pilots identified for in-service training
Importance to Workers, Employers, Consumers, Others
Realistic job previewing and workforce matching
Competency based and achievement oriented phases taught through high schools and community colleges
Develops a model for personal and home care aide training (entry-level and advanced)
NA I training enhanced with additional adult learning strategies and new delivery format
Enhanced state recognized career paths, employability
System and competencies responds to employer needs
Option to use curricula modules for in-service training use
Importance to Workers, Employers, Consumers, Others
More efficient use of NA I training programs (e.g., diverts or retains employee/learners based on full information regarding jobs)
Employer recruitment of workers more focused
Reduces persistent barriers to training
High School students – job/career ready (NA I & Phase IV)
Integration with other QI Initiatives
Better trained/more competent workers = better care for consumers
Preliminary Indicators of Success
We are meeting a need. Enrollment has exceeded our expectations with 12 community colleges, 3 high schools and 250 of the 300 participants enrolled by the middle of year 2.
Educational partners perceive this 4 phase model as filling an important gap for unemployed workers seeking work in health care.
Approximately 80% of phase 1 enrollees, persist into phase 2 (Direct Care Basics).
Employer-Educator partnerships are building where students are also incumbent workers.
Key Facilitators for Success
Partnership (Stakeholders at the table and invested in the process)
Incremental and meaningful career lattice development Manageable yet meaningful steps Clarify pathways Align with competencies Align with incremental rewards Early success breeds later persistence
Leveraging resources: Community college integration
Framework makes sense for North Carolina
Phases I & II, linked to human resource development programs
State-recognized job categories
Responds to employer need
Integration with other DCW policy/practice initiatives (e.g., NC NOVA, Star Rating, in-service training)
Potential to add new modules/job categories
Employers and other key stakeholders involved in process
Sustainability
Beyond PHCAST
Work with employer partners to meaningfully integrate training with career lattices
Work with employer partners to disseminate continuing education modules
Integration with other settings
Effective Interdisciplinary Teams
Additional modules/job category
Consumer directed care training issues