Increase the diversity of the healthcare workforce.
Definition
Story Behind the Curve
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Partners
Connecticut Department of Public Health; State Department of Education; Connecticut Office of Higher Education; Connecticut Department of Labor; Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Connecticut Department of Social Services; Connecticut Office of Rural Health; Office of Health Care Reform and Innovation; local public health agencies; federal health agencies; national health provider accrediting bodies; other organizations and coalitions focused on health workforce issues; community service organizations serving specific populations (children, older adults, underserved populations); health insurers; community health centers and hospitals; health professional associations; schools of public health, allied health, nursing and medicine; and philanthropic organizations that address access to care and health workforce issues.
What Works
Strategy
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Support development of the future pipeline for primary care and public health workforce to address diversity of the workforce.
Identify existing trainings to address identified gaps.
Work with appropriate Health Professions Programs to train and update needed providers with appropriate skill sets (knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, quality, and safety).
Engage training and education institutions to develop and enlarge programs to address identified gaps
Develop, analyze, distribute and maintain reliable reproducible data on qualitative measures of workforce diversity and skills