Training Partnerships: Summary of Outcomes

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Training Partnerships Summary of Outcomes
Arctic Slope Native Association

• Workforce Development
• 2003-2004

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FOCUS

• Increase local, native professional staff within
  our organization.

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Our Partners

• North Slope Workforce Development Roundtable
• North Slope Borough Mayors Office
• North Slope Borough Workforce Development Program
• Ilisagvik College Workforce Development Program
• ASNA Recruitment Retention Committee
• ASNA/SSMH leadership team.

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Current Knowledge/Conditions

• ASNAs Current Native Hire Statistics
• Support (98) Entry-level, little or no
  education requirements
• Skilled (68) 1 -2 years of college/trade school
  or equivalent work experience
• Professional/Technical (7.2) 2 years of
  college 3 5 years work experience
• Management (50) Upper management

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Current Knowledge/Conditions

• Barriers
• Limited local training opportunities
• Little interest in healthcare careers
• Limited outreach efforts between hospital
  professional staff and local students
• Few students in hard science/advanced math
• Minimal employment opportunities for returning
  college students
• Very limited intern/extern opportunities

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Current Knowledge/Conditions

• Local Trends
• The new hospital will require additional staff in
  all job classifications
• Recruiting off-slope is costly and time-consuming
• Reductions in Borough funding will continue to
  result in significant local job loss
• Local job growth is predicted to be limited, with
  growth focused in science, health and technology
  careers
• Community members encourage local hire
• Local staff have higher retention rates
• Long-term relationships between care provider and
  patient enhance quality care

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Current Knowledge/Conditions

• National Trends
• The healthcare industry is predicting greater
  than average job growth
• National healthcare vacancy rates are high
• Current professional and technical staff are
  reaching retirement age
• New student admissions in healthcare studies do
  not match need

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ASNAs Commitment

• Help establish and support local allied health
  training
• Impassion local students to explore healthcare
  careers
• Foster relationships with local students entering
  healthcare-related studies Provide employment
  opportunities for returning students during
  academic breaks and Identify intern/extern
  opportunities

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Local Allied Health Training
Help establish and support local allied health
training

• Partnered with the North Slope Borough Grants
  Department, NSB Department of Health Social
  Services and Ilisagvik College to assist in the
  development of Ilisagvik Colleges Allied Health
  Program
• Classes began Fall 2004
• Introduction to Allied Health Careers (Ilisagvik
  College class taught by ASNAs Employee Health
  Nurse Margaret Gill)

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Impassion Students
Impassion local students/residents to explore
healthcare careers

• Community Job Fair - August 2003 April 2004
• Barrow High School Career Fair -April 2004
• Kiita-Hospital Job Shadow Program
• NSB Mayors Job Program Job Shadow
• Allied Health Summer Camp Summer 2004

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Intern Extern Opportunities
Foster relationships with local students entering
healthcare-related studies Provide employment
opportunities for returning students during
academic breaks and Identify intern/extern
opportunities

• Summer Intern Program
• Dental Assistant Training Program
• Community Dental Health Aide Program
• Extern Program

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Summer Intern Program

• Program Description
• Funded by Ilisagvik Colleges Workforce
  Development Program
• 10-week internship (5/24 7/ 30/04)
• 37.5 hours/week 14.00 an hour
• General Placement-Specific Outcomes
• Intern Orientation, Training Evaluation
• Friday Lecture Series
• Intern Criteria
• College-bound or returning students
• GPA C or better
• NSB Resident
• Native Alaska/American Indian preference
• Complete application including essay questions

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Summer Intern Program

• Intern Selection
• 12 applicants 9 met program criteria
• 9 selected - 8 completed (1 dropped after first
  day)
• 7 of 8 were Alaskan Native/American Indian
• All BHS Graduates 4 returning students/4
  college-bound
• Intern Placement
• Pharmacy (1)
• Dental Clinic (2)
• Nursing (2 selected 1 completed)
• Healthcare Management (2)
• Information Services (1)
• Social Services (1)

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Summer Intern Program

• Outcomes
• Of our eight interns
• All met general placement-specific outcomes
• 5 returned to college off-slope
• 1 deferred enrollment to Pharmacy School (she is
  presently working in the Pharmacy)
• 2 entered training/education at Ilisagvik College
  and continue to work as Dental Assistants
• 5 transitioned into ASNA employment after their
  internships to complete their projects
• 6 received ETT Training
• 1 returned for a week to assist in our
  accreditation process
• 7 worked for ASNA during their Christmas break

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Dental Assistant Trainee Program

• Program Description
• Second Year of program
• 2004 Program funded by NSB NPRA Grant (NSB
  Mayors Office/NSB Grants Division), Ilisagvik
  Colleges Workforce Development Program ASNA
• February 2004 15 days
• Didactic, video, job shadow, chair-side
  assisting
• Trainees not paid
• Trainee Selection 2004 Program
• 22 applicants (13 native 11 non-native)
• 10 applicants selected (all native 4 from
  villages) 4 alternates
• Of those selected, 2 declined, 1 failed to
  travel 2 alternates were selected
• 10 trainees started 8 native/2 non-native 2
  trainees from Atqasuk Wainwright
• Seven completed 5 were native 2 non-native 2
  kiita students 1 from Atqasuk.

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Dental Assistant Trainee Program

• Outcomes
• 2004 Of the seven trainees, all but two accepted
  positions at the Dental Clinic 1 will be
  eligible for employment when she turns 18 1 was
  not interested in employment
• 2003 Of the six trainees, 5 were native all six
  trainees transitioned into work with ASNA.

The 2005 Dental Assistant Trainee Program begins
tomorrow (February 1- 25, 2005) Basic Dental
Assistant Program (Part I) Advanced Dental
Assistant Program (Part II)
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Community Dental Health Aide Program

• Program Description
• Similar to Community Health Aide Program
• Goal to certify paraprofessionals as primary
  village providers in dental healthcare
• April 2004 5 day training for Dental Health
  Aide I
• Student Selection
• Successfully complete Dental Assistant Trainee
  Program
• 2 village-based Dental Assistants 2 Kiita
  students 3 clinic staff
• Outcomes
• All trainees successfully completed program
  requirements. All are working on Dental Health
  Aide II requirements
• Dental Health Aide III will be offered 2005

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Kiita Job Shadow

• Program Description
• Developed to expose students to healthcare
  careers
• Selected by Kiita staff, Kiita students work 20
  hours a week at the Hospital.
• Funded by the North Slope Borough Mayors Job
  Program, ASNA and the North Slope School District
  (2003)
• Placement
• Medical Laboratory
• Health Information Systems (Medical Records)
• Dental Clinic
• Administration
• Central Sterile/Supply
• Materials Management

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Kiita Job Shadow

• Outcomes
• Of the 11 students placed in the hospital, 5
  completed the program, 4 were hired by ASNA upon
  graduation, 2 are in current job shadow
  positions.
• 2004 4 students 1 Dental 1 Central
  Sterile/Supply Materials Management 1 in
  Medical Records 1 dropped
• Hospital orientation, CPR, Customer Service,
  Nonviolent Physical Crisis Intervention
• Position-specific competencies
• 2003 7 students 2 graduated from Dental
  Assistant Trainee Program Dental Health Aide
  Program I 1 complete UAAs Phlebotomy Program
  while working in our Lab

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NSB Mayors Job Program

• Program Description
• Fully funded by the North Slope Borough, the
  Mayors Job Program places temporary employees
  into our joint training program
• Designed to train and employee local support
  skilled staff
• We only accept screened candidates in areas in
  which fulltime employment is a viable outcome
• Intern Placement
• Pharmacy
• Information Services
• Health Information Services
• Patient Accounts
• Central Sterile/Supply
• Materials Management

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NSB Mayors Job Program

• Outcomes
• 8 Trainees
• 3 transitioned into permanent positions
• 1 received a State Pharmacy License (gaining
  fulltime employment in our Pharmacy as a Pharmacy
  Technician).
• 1 work as a Health Information Technician
• 1 is a Central Sterile Technician (and is
  training to become a Nationally Certified
  Sterilization Technician).

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Extern Program

• Program Description
• ASNA funded
• Allows qualified third and forth year college
  students and graduate students to gain clinical
  experience at the Hospital
• Opportunity to establish on-going relationship
  with students who have expressed an interest in
  working in professional/technical areas
• Extern Placement
• Pharmacy
• Dental
• Outcomes
• Dentist (starts June 2005)
• Pharmacist

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Allied Health Summer Camp

• Program Description
• Funded by NSB NPRA Grant Ilisagvik College
  Joint project between North Slope Borough,
  Ilisagvik College and ASNA
• Two-week summer camp Campers stayed at the
  Ilisagvik dorms
• North Slope high school juniors and seniors
• Designed to expose students to health/science
  careers
• 3 tracks offered Emergency Trauma Technician (10
  students), Behavioral Health (0) Medical Office
  (6)
• Of the 16 students, 6 were from North Slope
  villages 10 were from Barrow.

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Allied Health Summer Camp

• Medical Office Track
• Medical Terminology
• Inupiat Medical Terminology
• Health Information Management
• Office Technology
• Ethics
• Billing
• Privacy, Confidentiality Corporate Compliance

The students will be holding a camp reunion in
April. All 16 students have confirmed their
attendance.
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Overall Outcomes

• The Numbers
• All but 2 training participants were
  students/trainees from the Arctic Slope
• 75 of all trainees were native
• 61 of all trainees were hired by ASNA upon the
  completion of their training program
• 71 trainees hired by ASNA were native
• In Special Recognition Gratitude
• North Slope Borough Mayors Office
• North Slope Borough Grants Division
• Ilisagvik College Workforce Development Program
• North Slope Borough School Districts Kiita
  Program