Louisville Leveraging Your Own Community'

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Louisville! Leveraging
Your Own Community.

• Parminder K. Jassal
• May 05, 2005

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Greater Louisville Inc. - GLI

• Visioning Process initiated in 1992
• 1997 Creation of GLI
• 2001 Partnership between Workforce Investment
  Board GLI
• Nov 2001 I was hired!
• 2003 Merger
• Current Success
• Replicating to other industries - CET

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Greater Louisville Inc. - GLI

• Metro Chamber of Commerce and Economic
  Development agency
• 2,200 plus businesses - act as a voice for the
  business community
• Business Network Strategy

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Kentuckiana Healthcare Workforce Initiative

• 3 million H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant
  awarded in May, 2002
• Goal recruit train 500-550 healthcare workers
  in
• Nursing/ Diagnostic Imaging/ Laboratory
  Technology/ Respiratory Therapy
• Partners include Six hospitals, two long-term
  care facilities, educational institutions, and
  numerous community agencies
• Foundation for bio-tech industry

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Kentuckiana Healthcare Workforce Initiative
Results

• 3 million DOL Healthcare Training Grant, life of
  2 years, plus 6 month no cost extension
• June 21st, 2002 to December 31st, 2004
• TOTAL project 7 million plus
• 3 mil grant
• 3 mil cash match
• 1.25 mil in-kind services match

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Kentuckiana Healthcare Workforce Initiative
Outcomes
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Kentuckiana Healthcare Vacancies Outcomes

• Writing of grant 1700 vacancies
• As of Jan 2002
• Exactly 3 years later
• As of Jan 2005 only 237 vacancies

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Benefits to GLI

• Strengthened relationship with area healthcare
  providers
• Viewed as a resource for solving workforce needs
  in the healthcare industry
• Increased recognition for future federal aid
  requests
• Became a 3rd party neutral information holder and
  aggregator

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Benefits to Community

• Raised awareness regarding the health career
  shortage
• Provided a solution to the shortage issue
• Built a cooperative/collaborative model that can
  be applied to other industries
• Established measurable milestones to track
  progress of community workforce

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Sustainability Model
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Partner Career Advancement Programs

• Successful programs Grow Your Own Nortons
  Scholars
• 50 recruitment/50 retention
• motivate/prepare employees for career advancement
• encourage continued employment within the
  facility
• specific to high demand careers
• offer a cafeteria plan of programs including
  educational assistance, tuition reimbursement and
  scholarship/grant type funding

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Metropolitan College

• Partnership among UPS, Jefferson Technical
  College, Jefferson Community College, the
  University of Louisville, State, and metro
  government
• Purpose is to provide educational and workplace
  opportunities that serve to facilitate the
  integration of educational goals, career
  development and personal life

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UPS WorldportsmLocation Louisville
International Airport

• Partnership among UPS, Jefferson Technical
  College, Jefferson Community College, the
  University of Louisville, State, and metro
  government
• Purpose to provide educational and workplace
  opportunities that facilitate the integration of
  educational goals, career development and
  personal life

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UPS WorldportsmLocation Louisville
International Airport
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Partnership Metropolitan College
Service Benefits
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Metropolitan College Benefits
Resource Benefits
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Metropolitan College Benefits
Work Benefits
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Metropolitan College Benefits
Academic Benefits
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KHA Workforce Consortium (November 2001)

• Kentucky Hospital Association and Healthcare
  Metro Council of Louisville
• Partnership of regional hospitals, educational
  institutions and various healthcare related
  facilities
• Committees include
• Education Training
• Recruitment Retention
• Grants Committee

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New American Program(October 2003)

• Resulted from hospital barriers to hiring
  immigrant population due to inadequate English
  language proficiencies
• 6 week, ESL (English as a Second Language) and
  C.N.A. program with 15 participants
• Partnered with two long-term care facilities,
  Jefferson County Public Schools and the American
  Red Cross
• At completion of the program, participants sit
  for the C.N.A. exam

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WIB and One StopKentuckianaWorks and Career
Resources Inc.

• KentuckianaWorks board involvements
• Evaluate One Stop proposals and structure of One
  Stops
• Aligning Services
• Partner to develop workforce programs that cover
  a spectrum of diverse populations

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GreaterLouisvilleWorks.com

• Regional community job portal for employment
  solutions
• Created in partnership with the local WIB,
  one-stop provider and for profit small business
  technology provider
• Provides a snapshot of local employment
  opportunities within biotech/health sector
  along with educational guidance
• Nursing Mailer

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Health Enterprise Network

• Mission To champion and foster the growth of the
  regions health-related economy
• Economic development focused business network
  formed by the leadership of Louisvilles
  health-related businesses
• Comprises over 200 health-related enterprises
• Exploring linkages with Governors Scholars
  Program to sustain the pipeline of
  healthcare/biotech workforce

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High Tech Health Care

• Laying foundation for regional biotech industry
• Partnerships that allow for expanded clinical
  work and shadowing opportunities
• Innovative online programming
• Accelerated options R.N. to B.S.N. programs,
  L.P.N. to R.N. bridge programs
• Development of programs that address capacity and
  workforce shortage challenges
• Spencerian College Laboratory Technician and
  Diagnostic Imaging
• Bellarmine University Accelerated Bachelor
  Allied Health Programs I.E. Cytotechnology

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Lessons Learned Challenges

• Competition between partners
• Injection of money at grant start-up
• Time factors length of grant/plenty of time
• HR success - today and in the s-term
• Educational Institutions bureaucratic system,
  difficult to enable change for the s-term, so GLI
  has partnered with the Jefferson County
  Community/Technical College system!

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Importance of Partnerships

• Leveraging the communities assets
• Preparation for the needs of the employer and
  educational institutions
• Communication Facilitate exchange of needs
  between educators/employers
• Forecasting future needs, planning ahead
• Sustainability, before you start!

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Key Lesson Learned

• The key to our continued success has been to
  begin implementing sustainability measures
  initially when the workforce plan is
  operationalized.
• Additionally, setting the stage and encouraging
  competitors to collaborative and partner
  resulting in more innovative strategies
  coopetition.

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This Saturday!!
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Louisville!! Leveraging Your Own
Community.

• Parminder K. Jassal
• Director, Workforce Solutions
• Greater Louisville Inc.
• PJassal_at_GreaterLouisville.com
• [phone]