Workforce
(Fuerza laboral)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- Community Health Worker Evaluation Tool Kit
A practical and useful guide to program evaluation for community health workers and community health worker programs.
Sponsoring organization: University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
- U.S. - Mexico Border HIV/AIDS Resource Directory
Provides local, regional and national information on HIV/AIDS training resources for a range of providers, including physicians, nurses, mental health clinicians, pharmacists, as well as HIV/AIDS-related services for both providers, and consumers.
Sponsoring organization: AIDS Education and Training Centers National Resource Center
- National Farmworker Jobs Program Services Contact Information
Directory of farmworker job program services by state.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
- The National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS)
An employment-based, random survey of the demographic and employment characteristics of the U.S. crop labor force. The information is obtained directly from farm workers through face-to-face interviews. Since 1988, when the survey began, nearly 43,000 workers have been interviewed.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
- Advancing Your Career
Information to help workers in all stages of their job and career development, including: starting a new job, making long-term career plans, researching job opportunities, dealing with job loss, and finding training to acquire new skills.
Sponsoring organization: Employment and Training Administration
- Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and Hispanic Worker Initiative
Provides a variety of resources regarding multilingual and multicultural strategies for serving job seekers and workers with limited English proficiency.
Sponsoring organization: Employment and Training Administration
- Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Service
Presents information about the services that the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program provides to veterans with service-connected disabilities, to active duty service members and veterans who have recently separated from active duty, and to dependents of veterans who meet certain program eligibility requirements.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- REALifelines
Recovery and employment assistance for wounded and injured service members and their families when they return to the homes and lives they left prior to their service to the United States. Contact toll free: 888.774.1361.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
- Career Voyages
A collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education designed to provide information on high growth, in-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Labor
- Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC)
An online library which provides information on health workforce issues. Resources include health workforce programs and funding sources; workforce data, research and policy; educational opportunities and models; and news and events, also available through e-mail updates.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
- Ticket to Work Program: Recruitment and Outreach
Provides most people receiving Social Security benefits (beneficiaries) more choices for receiving employment services.
Sponsoring organization: Social Security Administration
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- 2010 Minority Nurse Scholarship Program
Annual scholarship program to help outstanding students complete their studies leading to a BSN degree.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Feb 1, 2010
Sponsor: MinorityNurses.Com
- Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT)
Grants to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for registered nurses.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 7, 2009
Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
- AmeriCorps State and National Grants
Funding is available to support multi-state programs addressing critical community needs through service of professionals, paraprofessionals, and pre-professionals in communities with shortages of these professionals.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Jan 26, 2010
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
- California Endowment Grant Programs
Grants to expand access to affordable, quality health care for the underserved and to improve the health status of all Californians.
Geographic Coverage: California
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: California Endowment
- California Wellness Foundation Grants
Funds for direct preventive health services, core operating support, community action and public education and public policy.
Geographic Coverage: California
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Grants
Supports domestic health professional education.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
- National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program
Loan repayment funding to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals to provide primary health services in selected health professional shortage areas.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Sep 30, 2010
Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
- Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships (NATP)
Grants to eligible institutions for projects that support traineeships for licensed registered nurses enrolled as full-time students beyond the twelfth month of study in a Master's nurse anesthesia program.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 7, 2009
Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
- Nurse Education, Practice and Retention (NEPR)
Grants to strengthen the capacity for basic nurse education and practice and address the shortage of nurses in the health care workforce.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 22, 2009
Sponsor: Bureau of Health Professions
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
A scholarship program to help alleviate the nursing shortage and increase the diversity of nursing professionals.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Dec 15, 2009
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program
Funding to develop the next generation of national leaders in academic nursing through career development awards for outstanding junior nursing faculty.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Feb 2, 2010
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Unsolicited Grants
Grants to address health care workforce, innovative health care solutions, and health care to vulnerable populations.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Wal-Mart National Giving Program
Funding to support the replication of a particularly innovative local or regional initiative at other sites around the country.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
- Wal-Mart State Giving Program
The Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants at the state and regional level to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of their current programs.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
- Wal-Mart Store and Sam's Club Giving Programs
Funding to local nonprofit organizations in four main areas of focus: Education, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health & Wellness and Environmental Sustainability.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Wal-Mart Foundation
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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Arizona Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
Date: 2003
Format: PDF
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Border County Health Workforce Profiles: Arizona
Provides information on the health workforce, relevant population characteristics, and basic health indicators for the U.S.-Mexico Border region in the State of Arizona.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 05 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Border County Health Workforce Profiles: California
Provides information on the health workforce, relevant population characteristics, and basic health indicators for the U.S.-Mexico Border region in the State of California.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 05 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Border County Health Workforce Profiles: New Mexico
Provides information on the health workforce, relevant population characteristics, and basic health indicators for the U.S.-Mexico Border region in the State of New Mexico.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 05 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Border County Health Workforce Profiles: Texas
Provides information on the health workforce, relevant population characteristics, and basic health indicators for the U.S.-Mexico Border region in the State of Texas.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 05 / 2007
Format: PDF
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California Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
Date: 2003
Format: PDF
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California's Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services
Report on a survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in California that found Latino immigrants cite "looking for work" as the most important reason for immigrating to the U.S. Few cited immigration to obtain social services as a factor and also reported limited use of public benefits such as Medicaid. The majority of undocumented Latinos surveyed were uninsured and had poverty-level incomes.
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 05 / 1999
Format: PDF
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New Mexico Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
Date: 2003
Format: PDF
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Texas Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
Date: 2003
Format: PDF
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The U.S./Mexico Border: Demographic, Socio-Economic, and Health Issues Profile I
Identifies the subgroups within the Latino population. Provides demographics, socio-economic statistics and other characteristics of the Latino population living along the U.S. Mexico Border.
Date: 12 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth
Documents what educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. Provides background on the high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what 12 communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. Includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth.
Author(s): Nancy Martin, Samuel Halperin
Sponsoring organization: American Youth Policy Forum
Date: 2006
Format: PDF
Organizations
(Organismos)
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Arizona Department of Economic Security
Provides an integration of direct services to people in such a way as to reduce duplication of administrative efforts, services and expenditures.
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Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
Works to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice.
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Hire Heroes Program
Designed to help military veterans who were wounded find careers within the healthcare industry after serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations around the world.
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National Health Service Corps
Works to improve the health of the underserved by recruiting and retaining the health professionals to deliver health care in underserved communities. Provides technical assistance to federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) on projects that enhance the NHSC's site development mission. Part of the Bureau of Health Professionals, Health Resources and Services Administration.
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Nuestra Communidad, Nuestra Salud (Our Community, Our Health)
Goal is to increase the training, recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals who have the relevant knowledge and skills for practice in rural communities.
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Seguro Social en Español
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Southern Area Health Education Center & Border Health Education Training Center
Serves as a culturally competent regional resource and training center for youth, the health workforce, and communities of New Mexico. Also provides resources to help communities increase environmental safety and for individuals to improve their home environments.
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Southern Arizona Trauma Network
Provides trauma related educational opportunities to trauma professionals throughout southern Arizona, the state and the region.
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Texas Workforce Commission
The state government agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas.
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United Way y la Comunidad Latina
La misión de United Way es mejorar la calidad de vida por medio de la movilización de la capacidad humanitaria y caritativa de las comunidades.
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Women on the Border
Seeks to advance the education, training and empowerment of individuals who are employed in U.S. owned multinational corporations known as
"maquiladoras" that are physically located on foreign soil at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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