Office of Governor Gary Locke
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 1, 2002
Contact: Governor's Communications Office, 360-902-4136
Alt Contact: Pam Lund, Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, 360-586-8678
Jim Crabbe, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 360-664-0493
Ross Wiggins, Employment Security Department, 360-438-3132

Gov. Locke announces $4.3 million investment in strategic workforce development

OLYMPIA – Gov. Gary Locke today announced a $4.3 million investment to strengthen the state’s economy by providing more advanced training for Washington workers and helping employers in the state find enough skilled workers to fill job openings.

“We must build strong partnerships between government, educators and industry to provide our high-tech industries with skilled workers who meet the standards of their industry,” Locke said. “Working together, we can help our businesses thrive and provide family-wage jobs for our citizens.”

Even in the current economic recession, Washington’s employers can’t find enough skilled workers, according to a recent study conducted by the state’s Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. Many laid-off workers cannot obtain jobs in high-demand fields because they lack the required technical skills.

“Strategic workforce training is absolutely necessary to help our businesses and employees keep up with continued technological advances and sharpen our competitive edge,” Locke said. “This will help us close the gap between employers’ needs for skilled workers and the number of Washington residents prepared to meet those needs.”

Community and technical colleges and local Workforce Development Councils will use the state and federal funds to form business-led partnerships in industries vital to Washington state’s economy – industries such as health care, high tech, construction, and agriculture and food processing.

The newly formed partnerships will identify specific skill shortages and recommend solutions, which may include revamping curricula, developing new recruitment methods, providing customized short-term training or integrating nationally recognized skill standards.

The governor credited three state agencies – the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and the Employment Security Department – for this innovative joint approach to assure that separate funding sources are used strategically.

More than $2.6 million will support 16 workforce development projects addressing the state’s critical shortage of health care workers. The 16 regional health care partnerships will use the funds to increase access to training and offer new career ladder opportunities for workers in this vital industry.

Workers and employers in Washington’s agriculture and food processing industry will benefit from $330,000 to support more advanced training. High technology businesses such as electronics, information technology and energy technology will benefit from $755,000 to support training and upgrade employee skills.

The Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board will administer $600,000 in SKILLS – Securing Key Industries For Learning Skills – funding to help seven regional partnerships provide a critical link between workforce development and regional economic development strategies.

Industries of the Future Skills Training grants, administered by the Employment Security Department, will make training resources available to employers to help current workers upgrade their skills and make both the workforce and the businesses more competitive.

HIGH DEMAND PROJECTS
SKILL STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION
SKILLS GRANTS
INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING GRANTS
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE INVESTMENT GRANTS LISTED BY CITY

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
HIGH DEMAND PROJECTS
High demand projects are intended to support the extraordinary costs associated with the startup or improvement of high demand programs. All projects must respond to local economic development activities. Projects in rural areas may also be targeted at capacity, infrastructure, and other needs specific to rural communities. Special consideration will be given to consortia of colleges working in collaboration to address regional issues. Project funds may be used for curriculum development and delivery (including on-line delivery), individualized training programs, vocational ESL, community outreach, facility preparation, equipment, the development of new skill standards, adoption of skill standards developed in other states or implementation of skill standards, new work-based learning or internship opportunities, or other economic development projects.

Bates Technical College (with Tacoma)
Increasing Capacity and Student Diversity in Response to Critical Shortages of LPNs ($92,029)
Projected capacity – 130 students
Contact: Jean Watley, 253-680-7290

Bates will partner with local hospitals and Tacoma Community College to expand the capacity of the current licensed practical nurse program to address the shortage of LPN and LPN preparing to be RN within Pierce County. To meet this goal project objectives include: relocation and upgrade primary classroom to a larger facility; increase course enrollment; increase the multicultural enrollments; proportionally increase clinical sites; increase the graduation rate and sustain the level of success on the National Certification Licensing Exam for LPNs; and increase graduate transitions to RN training programs.
Bellingham Technical College (with Everett)
Northwest Washington Regional Radiologic Technology Implementation ($191,492)
Projected capacity – 60 students
Contact: Patricia McKeown, 360-738-3105 ext. 323

Working with major health care providers, WDCs, labor and industry associations, and the SBCTC, Bellingham Technical College and Everett Community College will lead a consortium of six colleges in the implementation of a regional radiologic technology (RT) training. Our project objectives are: finalize program requirements, maximizing the use of existing classes at consortium colleges; admit students into the new RT program by Winter Quarter 2003; establish flexible regional delivery with clinical centers at Bellingham and Everett; forge further resource partnerships to serve special populations and to sustain this regional effort.
Columbia Basin College
Dental Hygiene Second Year Curriculum Implementation ($95,746)
Projected capacity – 35 students
Contact: Donna Campbell, 509-547-0511 ext. 2206

Columbia Basin began implementation of a new dental hygiene program by admitting 18 students to the program Fall 2001. Eighteen more have been admitted for Fall 2002, bringing total enrollment to 35 students. The college is requesting $100,000 to fully implement the second year curriculum. Funds will be used to support faculty and equipment for this high-cost program that is vital to our service area.
Columbia Basin College (with Big Bend, Walla Walla, Wenatchee Valley, and Yakima Valley)
Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington (CREW) Allied Health ($537,518)
Projected capacity – 150-170 students
Contact: Donna Campbell, 509-547-0511 ext. 2206

The demand for trained health care workers in rural Eastern Washington increases annually. To strategically meet this growing need, the five community colleges that serve this region plan to implement lateral articulation agreements and coordinated marketing efforts as a consortium. By working cooperatively, the five colleges can offer a broad range of consistent, comprehensive allied health care options that specifically address health care throughout the region. With funds obtained through this proposal, the consortium will implement cost-effective strategies to accomplish this goal.
Everett Community College (with Edmonds)
Snohomish County Integrated Healthcare Occupations Training ($191,492)
Projected capacity – 120 students
Contact: Frank Cox, 425-388-9551

Everett and Edmonds community colleges will partner with the Snohomish County WDC and EDC, WorkSource centers, and the health care industry to: further identify skills gaps, monitor current unmet labor demand, and predict emerging needs; coordinate efficient user of existing regional training programs, by adapting established best practices for health care training delivery; develop, publish, and disseminate clear training pathways for health care career ladders; further increase student retention and capacity in existing high demand programs such as nursing (EvCC) and continue new program development in documented high demand areas such as patient care and pharmacy technician (EdCC).
Lake Washington Technical College (with Cascadia)
Transfer ADN Consortium Project ($179,524)
Projected capacity – 24-30 students
Contact: Ron Wheadon, 425-739-8309

This project is to serve the areas of the North Puget Sound. This project is a consortium partnership with Lake Washington Technical College and Cascadia Community College. The purpose of the project is to develop and implement an associate degree in nursing (ADN) program at Lake Washington that will prepare the graduates to sit for the registered nurse exam and have an option of progressing in the transfer career ladder process with Cascadia to get the needed prerequisites to preparation to enter the bachelor’s of science in nursing program at University of Washington– Bothell.
Peninsula College
Web Programmer Certificate ($93,113)
Projected capacity – 45 students
Contact: Bob Lawrence, 360-417-6344

The lack of quality web programmers is a major problem and a major skills gap on the North Olympic Peninsula. Peninsula College will create a one-year certificate in web programming. This certificate will augment our web developer certificate and media communications degree. Web programming skills will allow graduates employed locally to produce dynamic, database driven web sites that are sophisticated marketing tools and yet easy for businesses to update. The program will link with the new North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center using Tech Prep articulation to bridge students from the Center to the college in a seamless transition.
Renton Technical College (with Olympic)
Officer in Charge of Navigational Watch (OIC) Training Program ($191,492)
Projected capacity – 60 students
Contact: Beth Arman, 425-235-7863

Because of new international mariner standards, training is needed for current workers to continue, and new workers to begin, a maritime career, the Pacific Coast Maritime Labor Management Consortium (PCMLMC) will develop curriculum for an apprenticeship program, which will become part of RTC’s existing apprenticeship degree. RTC and Olympic will provide assessment, general education, and remediation where needed to prepare students. The curriculum will satisfy the International Maritime Organization and U.S. Coast Guard’s standards. The proposed program consists of 20 short courses taught in a classroom or simulated environment, one year of shipboard training, and 80 practical skill assessments. Shipboard training will be conducted with sponsoring shipping companies.
Shoreline Community College (with Lake Washington and North Seattle)
North King County Consortium for the Advancement of Health Care Careers ($262,038)
Projected capacity – 1,200-1,500 students
Contact: Joe Renourad, 206-546-4695

The consortium colleges have met with three of the major regional hospitals located in the North King County area to address the critical shortage of qualified health care workers. In an effort to mitigate the current shortage and improve the prospects for having an adequate pool of future health care workers, the consortium has focused on a two-phase initiative to provide relief to the industry. The first phase of the Consortium’s efforts will include the development of a heath care bridge program that would be developed by faculty of the respective colleges with significant assistance from both business and labor.
South Puget Sound Community College (with Centralia)
Associate Degree Nursing Program Expansion ($95,746)
Projected capacity – 24 students
Contact: Regina Lawrence, 360-754-7711 ext. 5207

South Puget Sound will partner with local hospitals, Centralia College, and our local WDC to expand the current associate degree nursing program by starting a two-year, part-time evening program. This project will meet the educational needs of our health care community as well as the demand for registered nurses in our region. To meet this goal, the project objectives are: increase admission to SPSCC’s nursing program by 47 percent; increase clinical sites; build recruitment and assessment efforts that maintain a pool of qualified new nursing applicants; increase the graduation rate and success on the Washington State Board of Nursing’s registered nurse license exam.
South Seattle Community College (with Seattle Central)
Developing Learning Communities to Access Health Related Programs ($187,662)
Projected capacity – 240 students
Contact: Pinky Dale, 206-768-6867

Seattle Central and South Seattle community colleges will partner together with business and industry to address the acute labor shortage of licensed practical nurses and registered nurses in the health industry. The colleges will address the following objectives: increase applicant pool of qualified candidates to LPN and RN programs; design and deliver classroom instruction for transitional programs for certified nursing assistant to licensed practical nurse to registered nurse; create learning communities to enhance integration of basic skills, GED/high school completion, vocational ESL, nursing pre-requisites, special study skills, culturally sensitive communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills; and increase success rate on Washington state licensing exams for nursing careers.
Spokane Community College (with Spokane Falls)
Expanding Healthcare Education via Distance Learning ($95,746)
Projected capacity – 70 students
Contact: Tina Bloomer, 509-533-7010

SCC provides quality education enabling students to obtain professional certification or licensure, to deliver quality health care, and to succeed in their careers. SCC will increase program capacity to satisfy employer demand for qualified workers and to place individuals in family-wage professions, enhancing the region’s economic vitality. SCC will develop and deliver seven basic online classes (terminology, anatomy, physiology, electrophysiology, first aid, HIV-AIDS, and occupational safety) required by students entering health care and/or by practitioners maintaining credentials, responding to the needs of time and place bound students. Through a complementary proposal to ESD, SCC will deliver an LPN-RN program employing distance education.
Tacoma Community College (with Clover Park)
Coordination and Expansion of Nursing Clinical Sites ($82,389)
Projected capacity – 900-1,000 students
Contact: Marion Miller, 253-566-5277

Tacoma Community College and Clover Park Technical College seek to secure funding for the staffing required to centralize, maximize, and expand the clinical placement needs of nine area schools of nursing. The objectives are to: hire a clinical coordinator to coordinate, maintain, and expand clinical placement needs for each of the schools; develop a master grid of clinical sites to be used by the schools of nursing and associated training; develop, implement, and maintain a web-based clinical planning matrix to be used by the clinical sites and educators for up-to-date processing of requested learning spaces at cooperating health care agencies; and establish additional sites for clinical instruction.
Walla Walla Community College
Implementation of Enology Instructional Program ($113,938)
Projected capacity – 20 students
Contact: Steve VanAusdle, 509-572-4274

Walla Walla Community College is in the process of establishing an enology program responsive to the management and technical workforce skill requirements of the region’s wine industry. The college plans to implement an enology (the making of wine) instructional program for students choosing to complete a two-year associate of applied arts and sciences degree or two-year associate of science transfer degree. The college will recruit and employ an enology faculty, refine skill standards and develop appropriate curriculum, secure instructional materials and equipment, establish a teaching laboratory and assess its effectiveness.
Wenatchee Valley College
Rural Agriculture Initiative: Phase III ($94,329)
Projected capacity – 200 students
Contact: Marcia Henkle, 509-664-2562

The Rural Agricultural Initiative will lay the groundwork for collaborative educational programs in rural Eastern Washington through consistent general agriculture curriculum, expanded bilingual educational offerings, and innovative instructional delivery methods including regional on-line instruction via the IRIS (Institute for Rural Innovation and Stewardship) website. This is Phase III of a multi-phase collaborative rural agriculture project. Funds obtained through this proposal will be used to hire a coordinator to work with the five CREW (Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington) partner colleges to accomplish this regional initiative and to develop short-term training modules for agriculture industry training.
Yakima Valley Community College
Nursing Careers ($95,746)
Projected capacity – 24 students
Contact: Nick Parisi, 509-574-4756

The demand for trained nurses exceeds the supply in the three districts served by Yakima Valley Community College. The effort to increase that supply will focus on three goals related to the education and training of registered nurses. The three goals related to this grant include: increasing the capacity in the nursing department by 24 students to allow one additional cohort class; evaluating and restructuring the curriculum to better align with ever-changing community needs; and determining the feasibility of offering courses in a non-traditional delivery time and/or format.

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
SKILL STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION
Skill standards provide an effective framework for educators, training providers, labor, and industry to develop and implement competency-based performance assessments and curricula that reflect industry requirements. Standards-based performance assessments and curricula will help students and current employees understand the relevance of education and training programs to their education and career goals. Grants are available to support colleges that integrate state-approved skill standards into courses, programs, career centers, and administrative practices. Proposals must also respond to local economic development strategies.

Lake Washington Technical College
Interactive Digital Content-Creator Skill Standards Implementation: An IT Career Path ($173,700)
Contact: Mike Potter, 425-739-8229

Mesmer Animation Labs, a certified private career school, and LWTC lead a private-public consortium, featuring nine SeaKing game software development companies and multiple education partners, to implement NWCET interactive digital media specialist skill standards, by developing focused curriculum training entry-level workers for employment in this growing regional high-skills, high-wages industry. First, industry leaders describe competencies required of 3D digital content creators (DCC), then curriculum is designed, LWTC field tested, and deployed. Outcomes include industry and WDC endorsement of the curriculum, development of assessment tools measuring success in training LWTC students to skill standard, and publication as a report and web accessible.
Peninsula College
ECE and School-Age Care Skills Standards ($119,910)
Contact: Barbara Clampett, 360-471-6497

Building on previous skill standards experience, Implementation Project 2002-2003 will be able to: expand implementation of skill standards based tools and practices for use and articulation by consumer and family science secondary school programs and industry partners who provide community based training for child care providers: Schools Out Washington and Child Care Resource and Referral; utilize the expertise of the trained ECE community and technical college faculty to mentor additional ECE faculty in their efforts to implement skill standards program integration across the state.
Pierce College
Marketing Skills Standards Implementation Project ($133,428)
Contact: Lisa Pletcher, 253-583-5071

The marketing skill standards project is a highly effective collaboration of five consortia representing eight colleges and 22 high schools. This project proposes to fully implement marketing skill standards through four activities: establish 20 small business support teams of high school/college students and faculty to work with 20 small businesses to set up marketing programs; align ten existing articulation agreements and create ten new articulation agreements with the marketing skill standards; beta-test and implement job descriptions, job standards, training needs assessments, and interview/hiring questions in collaboration with the American Marketing Association and the Society for Human Resource Management; and develop educational assessments for marketing students and program assessments.

Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board
SKILLS GRANTS
WTECB engaged business, labor and education to recommend seven innovative SKILLS panels that will receive the $600,000. WTECB received 13 project applications requesting a total of $1,100,000.

Snohomish County Health Care Industry SKILLS Panel
Grant Recipient: Snohomish Workforce Development Council
Project Manager: Ms. Rin Causey, 425-921-3477
Grant Amount: $85,000
Industry: Health Care

Project partners will form a SKILLS Panel focusing on the health care industry in Snohomish County. Like other areas of Washington, Snohomish County faces a crisis due to health care workers shortages. The goal of the project is to increase the supply of qualified trained workers by increasing the enrollment capacity at two community colleges and decreasing the attrition rates in nurse education programs and other health programs as identified by the Panel. Panel members will include hospital and health care clinic managers, labor organizations, Everett and Edmonds Community Colleges, the Economic Development Council of Snohomish County, the Workforce Development Council and others.

Participating employers include: Providence-Everett Medical Center, Stevens Hospital, Everett Clinic
Creating a Highly Skilled Electronics Workforce in Pierce County
Grant Recipient: Pierce County Careers Consortium-Pierce College
Project Manager: Lisa Pletcher, 253-583-5070
Grant Amount: $120,000
Industry: Electronics

The Pierce County Careers Consortium, a collaboration of 24 business, labor, education, and workforce and economic development organizations will partner with Olympic College-West Sound Consortium of Kitsap County to create a highly skilled regional workforce to support the growing High Tech industry in South Puget Sound. Project partners include: the Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council, Economic Development Board, Pierce County Central Labor Council, five high schools, and seven colleges and universities. Project partners plan to implement the following activities:

Goal 1: Create, implement, and facilitate an Electronics SKILLS Panel
Goal 2: Create and coordinate a labor market analysis and needs assessment
Goal 3: Evaluate existing electronics training programs
Goal 4: Create electronics articulation agreements with high schools, colleges, and the Navy

Participating employers include: ETI Solutions, MultiCare, Datum Networks, including the Navy
Southwest Washington Allied Health Care SKILLS Panel
Grant Recipient: Workforce Development Council of Southwest Washington
Project Manger: Pat Bredeson, 360-699-3071
Grant Amount: $71,000
Industry: Health Care

Southwest Washington is focusing on the critical health care worker shortage in its four- county area. The project will form a SKILLS Panel comprised of health care professionals, labor, Clark and Lower Columbia Colleges, the Southwest Workforce Development Council, and economic development policy makers. The panel will assess skill gaps and labor shortages in the region’s health care industry, identify solutions, and develop an implementation plan, including funding options.

Participating employers include: The Vancouver Clinic, Southwest Washington Medical Center, St. John Medical Center/Peace Health, Kaiser Permanente, Cascade Park Care Center, Providence Health Care Systems, Legacy Health Systems, and Family Physicians Group.
Northwest Sector Analysis
Grant Recipient: Northwest Workforce Development Council
Project Manager: Gay Dubigk, 360-676-3206
Grant Amount: $62,000
Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Construction

This project targets three industry sectors with projected growth and high wages - - information technology, manufacturing, and construction. This sector approach is innovative for the rural area of Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, and Island Counties. It will respond to three different industries that are made up of small businesses and have different, yet common workforce and economic needs. The project will use structured inquiry and research to identify economic development issues, skills gaps, and training and employment solutions. This sector approach responds strategically to changes in this region’s economic conditions and business requirements.

Project partners include the Northwest Workforce Development Council, Bellingham Technical College, Skagit Valley College, Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University’s Center for Economic and Business Research, organized labor, the Port of Bellingham, Island County Economic Development Council, and the Whatcom and Skagit/Island Tech-Prep/School to Work Consortiums. This project will engage business leaders currently participating in the BusinessLinc Roundtables convened by Western Washington University’s Small Business Development Center and Skagit Valley College’s Business Resource Center. Additionally, existing industry groups of the Economic Development Association of Skagit Valley and other industry-led associations will be involved.
Southeastern Washington Energy Technology SKILLS Panel
Grant Recipient: Walla Walla Community College
Project Manager: Ron Langrell, 509-527-4215
Grant Amount: $54,000
Industry: Energy Technology

Project partners will convene an industry-led SKILLS Panel to identify critical skills gaps in the energy industry in the Walla Walla region. Project activities include a market analysis of the region’s energy industry with a focus on the Hispanic sector of the area’s workforce. The goal is to develop or adopt relevant skill standards, curriculum, and assessment tools to meet current and future training requirements. The SKILLS panel will be comprised of business (energy production, transmission, conservation, consumption), labor, education, and workforce development leaders.

Participating employers include: Key Technology, IBP, FPL Energy, BPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Port of Walla Walla.
King County Game Software SKILLS Panel
Grant Recipient: Lake Washington Technical College and Mesmer Animation Labs
Project Manager: Mike Potter, 425-739-8228 and Frank Agnello, 360-455-4803
Grant Amount: $103,000
Industry: Game Software Development

Lake Washington Technical College will team with Mesmer Animation Labs, a licensed private career school, to convene a SKILLS Panel targeting the growing game software development industry in King County. The SKILLS panel will define industry competencies, create internships, develop curricula, and test project training and assessment products.

Participating employers include: Valve Software, Nintendo of America, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Arts, Escape Factory Games, Game House Software, KnowWonder, Monolith, and Outcast Ltd.
Pierce County Construction Partnership
Grant Recipient: Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council
Project Manager: Colin Conant, 253-591-7972
Grant Amount: $110,000
Industry: Construction

The Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council, in coordination with the Pierce County Construction Partnership (PCCP,) will manage a Construction Industry SKILLS Panel to (1) complete its work in developing strategic plans; (2) conduct a construction industry labor market survey, analyze data and disseminate results to stakeholders; and (3) develop and implement a coordinated marketing campaign.

Project partners include the Tacoma-Pierce County Employment and Training Consortium, Pierce County Careers Consortium, the University of Washington, Pierce County Building and Construction Trades Council, the Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board, and the Western Washington Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Training Council.

Participating employers and industry associations include: Absher Construction Company, Rushforth Construction, Tacoma Housing Authority, Associated General Contractors (Southern District), and Pierce County Master Builders Association.

EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTMENT
2002 – 2003 INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING (IFST) GRANTS
The purpose of Industries of the Future is to make training resources available to employers to help current workers upgrade their skills. The results will make both the workforce and the business more competitive.

Seattle-King County Workforce Development Council (SKWDC)
Bellevue Community College (BCC)
WIA funds awarded: $150,000
Matching funds contributed: $175,180
Number of incumbent workers to receive training: 75
Contact: Kris Stadelman, Seattle-King County WDC, 206-448-0474

The SKWDC and BCC will partner with health care employers and employee representatives to provide critically needed, incumbent worker skills based training. The training will increase the number of pharmacy technicians, phlebotomists, and certified nursing assistants. These tracks, identified by local/regional health care providers, will assist participating “employer partners” in meeting high demand needs. It will give incumbent workers the opportunity to advance and establish educational links with long-term effects. Curriculum and delivery methods will meet industry standards and certification requirements.
Tacoma-Pierce County Employment and Training Consortium (TPCETC)
Pierce County Health Services Careers Council (PCHSCC)
WIA funds Awarded: $150,000
Matching funds contributed: $197,000
Number of incumbent workers to receive training: 51
Contact: Colin Conant, Pierce County WDC, 253-594-7956

TPCETC and PCHSCC will provide services for LPNs in the Tacoma Community College’s RN bridge program in order to reduce the drop out rate. These services will include coordinating activities, managing and developing clinical training opportunities, and providing support. The project goal is to significantly increase the graduation rate. PCHSCC is a business-led partnership established by the Tacoma-Pierce Workforce Development Council to oversee strategies that serve health care professionals and those interested in careers in health care services.
North Central Workforce Development Council (NCWDC)
SkillSource
WIA funds Awarded: $120,930
Matching funds contributed: $120,930
Number of incumbent workers to receive training: 31
Contact: Dave Petersen, NC WDC, 509-663-3091

This project expands training started under a pilot project in agriculture and food processing. Incumbent workers will receive technical training in areas such as electrical systems and equipment maintenance, water and steam systems, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, and refrigeration systems. Some workers will also attend vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. The goals of the project are increased earnings, skill acquisition that leads to achieving a skill standard, and promotion.
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council (SAWDC)
Spokane Community College (SCC)
WIA funds awarded: $150,000
Matching funds contributed: $200,000
Number of incumbent workers to receive training: 22
Contact: John Baumhofer, Spokane WDC, 509-625-6210

SCC will enroll 22 practicing LPNs in an articulated LPN-RN program that will allow them to complete their training and take the licensure examination during the 2002-2003 academic year. Various training venues (classroom, laboratory, clinical, and computer-based learning) will be used. To facilitate the training of time and place bound students, the nursing theory portion of the two quarters of the program will be accessible online. The acute and extended care employers that provide staff and facilities to complete the required clinical instruction will contribute matching funds. The outcomes of the project include increasing the number of RNs in the area, providing career opportunities for LPNs, and responding to the needs of health care industry partners.

2002 STRATEGIC WORKFORCE INVESTMENT GRANTS LISTED BY CITY

Bellingham
Bremerton
Olympia
Port Angeles
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
Tri-Cities
Vancouver
Wenatchee
Yakima

Four related grants are administered by Workforce Education and Training Coordinating Board (SKILLS Panels), State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (Skill Standard Implementation and High Demand Projects), and Employment Security Department (Industries of the Future).

SKILLS Panels Grants
Skill standards provide a framework for the development of training curricula for specific jobs and job categories. These grants provide funds to bring together regional industry and labor representatives, educators and training providers, and Workforce Development Councils to develop skill standards and employment solutions to address labor shortages in the local workforce.

Skill Standards Implementation Grants
These grants are available to support colleges that integrate state-approved skill standards into courses, programs, career centers, and administrative practices. Proposals must also respond to local economic development strategies.

High Demand Project Grants
High demand projects are intended to support the extraordinary costs associated with the startup or improvement of high demand programs. All projects must respond to local economic development activities. Projects in rural areas may also be targeted at capacity, infrastructure, and other needs specific to rural communities. Project funds may be used for curriculum development and delivery (including on-line delivery), individualized training programs, vocational ESL, community outreach, facility preparation, equipment, the development of new skill standards, adoption of skill standards developed in other states or implementation of skill standards, new work-based learning or internship opportunities, or other economic development projects.

Industries of the Future Skills Training Grants
The purpose of Industries of the Future grants is to make training resources available to employers to help current workers upgrade their skills. The results will make the workforce and businesses more competitive, as well as improving the earning potential of individual workers.

Bellingham
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Northwest Workforce Development Council
Amount: $62,000
Project Title: Northwest Sector Analysis
Contact: Gay Dubigk, 360-676-3206

This project targets three industry sectors with projected growth and high wages - - information technology, manufacturing, and construction. This sector approach is innovative for the rural area of Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, and Island Counties. It will respond to three different industries that are made up of small businesses and have different, yet common workforce and economic needs. The project will use structured inquiry and research to identify economic development issues, skills gaps, and training and employment solutions. This sector approach responds strategically to changes in this region's economic conditions and business requirements.

Project partners include the Northwest Workforce Development Council, Bellingham Technical College, Skagit Valley College, Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University's Center for Economic and Business Research, organized labor, the Port of Bellingham, Island County Economic Development Council, and the Whatcom and Skagit/Island Tech-Prep/School to Work Consortiums. This project will engage business leaders currently participating in the BusinessLinc Roundtables convened by Western Washington University's Small Business Development Center and Skagit Valley College's Business Resource Center. Additionally, existing industry groups of the Economic Development Association of Skagit Valley and other industry-led associations will be involved.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Bellingham Technical College (with Everett Community College)
Amount: $191,492
Project Title: Northwest Washington Regional Radiologic Technology Implementation
Contact: Patricia McKeown, 360-738-3105 ext. 323

Working with major health care providers, WDCs, labor and industry associations, and the SBCTC, Bellingham Technical College and Everett Community College will lead a consortium of six colleges in the implementation of a regional radiologic technology (RT) training. Our project objectives are: finalize program requirements, maximizing the use of existing classes at consortium colleges; admit students into the new RT program by Winter Quarter 2003; establish flexible regional delivery with clinical centers at Bellingham and Everett; forge further resource partnerships to serve special populations and to sustain this regional effort.
Bremerton
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Pierce County Careers Consortium-Pierce College
Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Creating a Highly Skilled Electronics Workforce in Pierce County
Contact: Lisa Pletcher, 253-583-5070

The Pierce County Careers Consortium, a collaboration of 24 business, labor, education, and workforce and economic development organizations will partner with Olympic College-West Sound Consortium of Kitsap County to create a highly skilled regional workforce to support the growing High Tech industry in South Puget Sound. Project partners include: the Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council, Economic Development Board, Pierce County Central Labor Council, 5 high schools, and 7 colleges and universities. Project partners plan to implement the following activities:

Goal 1: Create, implement, and facilitate an Electronics SKILLS Panel
Goal 2: Create and coordinate a labor market analysis and needs assessment
Goal 3: Evaluate existing electronics training programs
Goal 4: Create electronics articulation agreements with high schools, colleges, and the Navy

Participating employers include: ETI Solutions, MultiCare, Datum Networks, including the Navy.

See Renton Technical College listing for collaborative High Demand Project with Olympic Community College - Officer in Charge of Navigational Watch (OIC) Training Program
Everett
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Snohomish Workforce Development Council
Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Snohomish County Health Care Industry SKILLS Panel
Contact: Ms. Rin Causey, 425-921-3477

Project partners will form a SKILLS Panel focusing on the health care industry in Snohomish County. Like other areas of Washington, Snohomish County faces a crisis due to health care workers shortages. The goal of the project is to increase the supply of qualified trained workers by increasing the enrollment capacity at two community colleges and decreasing the attrition rates in nurse education programs and other health programs as identified by the Panel. Panel members will include hospital and health care clinic managers, labor organizations, Everett and Edmonds Community Colleges, the Economic Development Council of Snohomish County, the Workforce Development Council and others. Participating employers include: Providence-Everett Medical Center, Stevens Hospital, Everett Clinic

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Everett Community College (with Edmonds Community College)
Amount: $191,492
Snohomish County Integrated Healthcare Occupations Training
Contact: Frank Cox, 425-388-9551

Everett and Edmonds community colleges will partner with the Snohomish County WDC and EDC, WorkSource centers, and the health care industry to: further identify skills gaps, monitor current unmet labor demand, and predict emerging needs; coordinate efficient user of existing regional training programs, by adapting established best practices for health care training delivery; develop, publish, and disseminate clear training pathways for health care career ladders; further increase student retention and capacity in existing high demand programs such as nursing (EvCC) and continue new program development in documented high demand areas such as patient care and pharmacy technician (EdCC).

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Lake Washington Technical College (with Cascadia Community College)
Amount: $179,524
Project Title: Transfer ADN Consortium Project
Contact: Ron Wheadon, 425-739-8309

This project is to serve the areas of the North Puget Sound. This project is a consortium partnership with Lake Washington Technical College and Cascadia Community College. The purpose of the project is to develop and implement an associate degree in nursing (ADN) program at Lake Washington that will prepare the graduates to sit for the registered nurse exam and have an option of progressing in the transfer career ladder process with Cascadia to get the needed prerequisites to preparation to enter the bachelor's of science in nursing program at University of Washington- Bothell.
Olympia
Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: South Puget Sound Community College (with Centralia)
Amount: $95,746
Project Title: Associate Degree Nursing Program Expansion
Contact: Regina Lawrence, 360-754-7711 ext. 5207

South Puget Sound will partner with local hospitals, Centralia College, and our local WDC to expand the current associate degree nursing program by starting a two-year, part-time evening program. This project will meet the educational needs of our health care community as well as the demand for registered nurses in our region. To meet this goal, the project objectives are: increase admission to SPSCC's nursing program by 47 percent; increase clinical sites; build recruitment and assessment efforts that maintain a pool of qualified new nursing applicants; increase the graduation rate and success on the Washington State Board of Nursing's registered nurse license exam.
Port Angeles
Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Peninsula College
Amount: $93,113
Project Title: Web Programmer Certificate ($93,113)
Contact: Bob Lawrence, 360-417-6344

The lack of quality web programmers is a major problem and a major skills gap on the North Olympic Peninsula. Peninsula College will create a one-year certificate in web programming. This certificate will augment our web developer certificate and media communications degree. Web programming skills will allow graduates employed locally to produce dynamic, database driven web sites that are sophisticated marketing tools and yet easy for businesses to update. The program will link with the new North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center using Tech Prep articulation to bridge students from the Center to the college in a seamless transition.

Type: Skills Standards Implementation Grants administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Peninsula College
Amount: $119,910
Project Title: Early Childhood Education and School-Age Care Skills Standards
Contact: Barbara Clampett, 360-471-6497

Building on previous skill standards experience, Implementation Project 2002-2003 will be able to: expand implementation of skill standards based tools and practices for use and articulation by consumer and family science secondary school programs and industry partners who provide community based training for child care providers: Schools Out Washington and Child Care Resource and Referral; utilize the expertise of the trained ECE community and technical college faculty to mentor additional ECE faculty in their efforts to implement skill standards program integration across the state.
Seattle
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Lake Washington Technical College and Mesmer Animation Labs
Amount: $103,000
Project Title: King County Game Software SKILLS Panel
Contact: Mike Potter, 425-739-8228 and Frank Agnello, 360-455-4803

Lake Washington Technical College will team with Mesmer Animation Labs, a licensed private career school, to convene a SKILLS Panel targeting the growing game software development industry in King County. The SKILLS panel will define industry competencies, create internships, develop curricula, and test project training and assessment products.

Participating employers include: Valve Software, Nintendo of America, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Arts, Escape Factory Games, Game House Software, KnowWonder, Monolith, and Outcast Ltd.

Type: Skills Standards Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Lake Washington Technical College
Amount: $173,000
Project Title: Interactive Digital Content-Creator: An IT Career
Contact: Mike Potter, 425-739-8229

Mesmer Animation Labs, a certified private career school, and LWTC lead a private-public consortium, featuring nine SeaKing game software development companies and multiple education partners, to implement NWCET interactive digital media specialist skill standards, by developing focused curriculum training entry-level workers for employment in this growing regional high-skills, high-wages industry. First, industry leaders describe competencies required of 3D digital content creators (DCC), then curriculum is designed, LWTC field tested, and deployed. Outcomes include industry and WDC endorsement of the curriculum, development of assessment tools measuring success in training LWTC students to skill standard, and publication as a report and web accessible.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Renton Technical College (with Olympic Community College)
Amount: $191,492
Project Title: Officer in Charge of Navigational Watch (OIC) Training Program
Contact: Beth Arman, 425-235-7863

Because of new international mariner standards, training is needed for current workers to continue, and new workers to begin, a maritime career, the Pacific Coast Maritime Labor Management Consortium (PCMLMC) will develop curriculum for an apprenticeship program, which will become part of RTC's existing apprenticeship degree. RTC and Olympic will provide assessment, general education, and remediation where needed to prepare students. The curriculum will satisfy the International Maritime Organization and U.S. Coast Guard's standards. The proposed program consists of 20 short courses taught in a classroom or simulated environment, one year of shipboard training, and 80 practical skill assessments. Shipboard training will be conducted with sponsoring shipping companies.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Shoreline Community College (with Lake Washington and North Seattle)
Amount: $262,038
Project Title: N. King County Consortium for the Advancement of Health Care Careers
Contact: Joe Renourad, 206-546-4695

The consortium colleges have met with three of the major regional hospitals located in the North King County area to address the critical shortage of qualified health care workers. In an effort to mitigate the current shortage and improve the prospects for having an adequate pool of future health care workers, the consortium has focused on a two-phase initiative to provide relief to the industry. The first phase of the Consortium's efforts will include the development of a heath care bridge program that would be developed by faculty of the respective colleges with significant assistance from both business and labor.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: South Seattle Community College (with Seattle Central)
Amount: $187,662
Project Title: Developing Learning Communities to Access Health Related Programs
Contact: Pinky Dale, 206-768-6867

Seattle Central and South Seattle community colleges will partner together with business and industry to address the acute labor shortage of licensed practical nurses and registered nurses in the health industry. The colleges will address the following objectives: increase applicant pool of qualified candidates to LPN and RN programs; design and deliver classroom instruction for transitional programs for certified nursing assistant to licensed practical nurse to registered nurse; create learning communities to enhance integration of basic skills, GED/high school completion, vocational ESL, nursing pre-requisites, special study skills, culturally sensitive communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills; and increase success rate on Washington state licensing exams for nursing careers.

Type: Industries of the Future Grant administered by Employment Security Division
Recipient: Seattle-King County Workforce Development Council (SKWDC)
Amount: $150,000
Contact: Kris Stadelman, CEO, SKWDC, 206-448-0474

The SKWDC and Bellevue Community College will partner with health care employers and employee representatives to provide critically needed, incumbent worker skills based training. The training will increase the number of pharmacy technicians, phlebotomists, and certified nursing assistants. These tracks, identified by local/regional health care providers, will assist participating "employer partners" in meeting high demand needs. It will give incumbent workers the opportunity to advance and establish educational links with long-term effects. Curriculum and delivery methods will meet industry standards and certification requirements.
Spokane
Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Spokane Community College (with Spokane Falls Community College)
Amount: $95,746
Project Title: Expanding Healthcare Education via Distance Learning
Contact: Tina Bloomer, 509-533-7010

SCC provides quality education enabling students to obtain professional certification or licensure, to deliver quality health care, and to succeed in their careers. SCC will increase program capacity to satisfy employer demand for qualified workers and to place individuals in family-wage professions, enhancing the region's economic vitality. SCC will develop and deliver seven basic online classes (terminology, anatomy, physiology, electrophysiology, first aid, HIV-AIDS, and occupational safety) required by students entering health care and/or by practitioners maintaining credentials, responding to the needs of time and place bound students. Through a complementary proposal to ESD, SCC will deliver an LPN-RN program employing distance education.

Type: Industries of the Future Grant administered by Employment Security Division
Recipient: Spokane Area Workforce Development Council (SAWDC)
Amount: $150,000
Contact: John Baumhofer, Director SAWDC, 509-625-6210

Spokane Community College will enroll practicing LPNs in an articulated LPN-RN program that will allow them to complete their training and take the licensure examination during the 2002-2003 academic year. Various training venues (classroom, laboratory, clinical, and computer-based learning) will be used. To facilitate the training of time and place bound students, the nursing theory portion of the two quarters of the program will be accessible online. The acute and extended care employers that provide staff and facilities to complete the required clinical instruction will contribute matching funds. The outcomes of the project include increasing the number of RNs in the area, providing career opportunities for LPNs, and responding to the needs of health care industry partners.
Tacoma
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council
Amount: $110,000
Project Title: Pierce County Construction Partnership
Contact: Colin Conant, 253-591-7972

The Tacoma-Pierce County Workforce Development Council, in coordination with the Pierce County Construction Partnership (PCCP,) will manage a Construction Industry SKILLS Panel to (1) complete its work in developing strategic plans; (2) conduct a construction industry labor market survey, analyze data and disseminate results to stakeholders; and (3) develop and implement a coordinated marketing campaign.

Project partners include the Tacoma-Pierce County Employment and Training Consortium, Pierce County Careers Consortium, the University of Washington, Pierce County Building and Construction Trades Council, the Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board, and the Western Washington Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Training Council.

Participating employers and industry associations include: Absher Construction Company, Rushforth Construction, Tacoma Housing Authority, Associated General Contractors (Southern District), and Pierce County Master Builders Association.

Type: Skills Standards Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Pierce College
Amount: $133,428
Project Title: Marketing Skills Standards Implementation Project
Contact: Lisa Pletcher, 253-583-5071

The marketing skill standards project is a highly effective collaboration of five consortia representing eight colleges and 22 high schools. This project proposes to fully implement marketing skill standards through four activities: establish 20 small business support teams of high school/college students and faculty to work with 20 small businesses to set up marketing programs; align ten existing articulation agreements and create ten new articulation agreements with the marketing skill standards; beta-test and implement job descriptions, job standards, training needs assessments, and interview/hiring questions in collaboration with the American Marketing Association and the Society for Human Resource Management; and develop educational assessments for marketing students and program assessments.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Bates Technical College
Amount: $92,029
Project Title: Increasing Capacity & Diversity in Response to Critical Shortages of LPNs
Contact: Jean Watley, 253-680-7290

Bates will partner with local hospitals and Tacoma Community College to expand the capacity of the current licensed practical nurse program to address the shortage of LPN and LPN preparing to be RN within Pierce County. To meet this goal project objectives include: relocation and upgrade primary classroom to a larger facility; increase course enrollment; increase the multicultural enrollments; proportionally increase clinical sites; increase the graduation rate and sustain the level of success on the National Certification Licensing Exam for LPNs; and increase graduate transitions to RN training programs.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Tacoma Community College (with Clover Park Technical College)
Amount: $82,389
Project Title: Coordination and Expansion of Nursing Clinical Sites
Contact: Marion Miller, 253-566-5277

Tacoma Community College and Clover Park Technical College seek to secure funding for the staffing required to centralize, maximize, and expand the clinical placement needs of nine area schools of nursing. The objectives are to: hire a clinical coordinator to coordinate, maintain, and expand clinical placement needs for each of the schools; develop a master grid of clinical sites to be used by the schools of nursing and associated training; develop, implement, and maintain a web-based clinical planning matrix to be used by the clinical sites and educators for up-to-date processing of requested learning spaces at cooperating health care agencies; and establish additional sites for clinical instruction.

Type: Industries of the Future Grant administered by Employment Security Division
Recipient: Tacoma-Pierce County Employment and Training Consortium (TPCETC)
Amount: $150,000
Project Title: Pierce County Health Services Careers Council (PCHSCC)
Contact: Colin Conant, 253-594-7956

TPCETC and PCHSCC will provide services for LPNs in the Tacoma Community College's RN bridge program in order to reduce the drop out rate. These services will include coordinating activities, managing and developing clinical training opportunities, and providing support. The project goal is to significantly increase the graduation rate. PCHSCC is a business-led partnership established by the Tacoma-Pierce Workforce Development Council to oversee strategies that serve health care professionals and those interested in careers in health care services.
Tri-Cities
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Walla Walla Community College
Amount: $54,000
Project Title: Southeastern Washington Energy Technology SKILLS Panel
Contact: Ron Langrell, 509-527-4215

Project partners will convene an industry-led SKILLS Panel to identify critical skills gaps in the energy industry in the Walla Walla region. Project activities include a market analysis of the region's energy industry with a focus on the Hispanic sector of the area's workforce. The goal is to develop or adopt relevant skill standards, curriculum, and assessment tools to meet current and future training requirements. The SKILLS panel will be comprised of business (energy production, transmission, conservation, consumption), labor, education, and workforce development leaders.

Participating employers include: Key Technology, IBP, FPL Energy, BPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Port of Walla Walla.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Walla Walla Community College
Amount: $113,938
Project Title: Implementation of Enology Instructional Program
Contact: Steve VanAusdle, 509-572-4274

Walla Walla Community College is in the process of establishing an enology program responsive to the management and technical workforce skill requirements of the region's wine industry. The college plans to implement an enology (the making of wine) instructional program for students choosing to complete a two-year associate of applied arts and sciences degree or two-year associate of science transfer degree. The college will recruit and employ an enology faculty, refine skill standards and develop appropriate curriculum, secure instructional materials and equipment, establish a teaching laboratory and assess its effectiveness.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Columbia Basin College
Amount: $95,746
Project Title: Dental Hygiene Second Year Curriculum Implementation
Contact: Donna Campbell, 509-547-0511 ext. 2206

Columbia Basin began implementation of a new dental hygiene program by admitting 18 students to the program Fall 2001. Eighteen more have been admitted for Fall 2002, bringing total enrollment to 35 students. The college is requesting $100,000 to fully implement the second year curriculum. Funds will be used to support faculty and equipment for this high-cost program that is vital to our service area.

Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Columbia Basin College (with Big Bend, Walla Walla, Wenatchee Valley, and Yakima Valley)
Amount: $537,518
Project Title: Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington (CREW) Allied Health
Contact: Donna Campbell, 509-547-0511 ext. 2206

The demand for trained health care workers in rural Eastern Washington increases annually. To strategically meet this growing need, the five community colleges that serve this region plan to implement lateral articulation agreements and coordinated marketing efforts as a consortium. By working cooperatively, the five colleges can offer a broad range of consistent, comprehensive allied health care options that specifically address health care throughout the region. With funds obtained through this proposal, the consortium will implement cost-effective strategies to accomplish this goal.
Vancouver
Type: SKILLS panel grant administered by WTECB
Recipient: Workforce Development Council of Southwest Washington
Amount: $71,000
Project Title: Southwest Washington Allied Health Care SKILLS Panel
Contact: Pat Bredeson, 360-699-3071

Southwest Washington is focusing on the critical health care worker shortage in its four- county area. The project will form a SKILLS Panel comprised of health care professionals, labor, Clark and Lower Columbia Colleges, the Southwest Workforce Development Council, and economic development policy makers. The panel will assess skill gaps and labor shortages in the region's health care industry, identify solutions, and develop an implementation plan, including funding options.

Participating employers include: The Vancouver Clinic, Southwest Washington Medical Center, St. John Medical Center/Peace Health, Kaiser Permanente, Cascade Park Care Center, Providence Health Care Systems, Legacy Health Systems, and Family Physicians Group.
Wenatchee
Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Wenatchee Valley College
Amount: $94,329
Project Title: Rural Agriculture Initiative: Phase III
Contact: Marcia Henkle, 509-664-2562

The Rural Agricultural Initiative will lay the groundwork for collaborative educational programs in rural Eastern Washington through consistent general agriculture curriculum, expanded bilingual educational offerings, and innovative instructional delivery methods including regional on-line instruction via the IRIS (Institute for Rural Innovation and Stewardship) website. This is Phase III of a multi-phase collaborative rural agriculture project. Funds obtained through this proposal will be used to hire a coordinator to work with the five CREW (Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington) partner colleges to accomplish this regional initiative and to develop short-term training modules for agriculture industry training.

See Columbia Basin College listing for collaborative High Demand Project (Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington Allied Health) with Big Bend, Walla Walla, Wenatchee Valley and Yakima Valley Community Colleges

Type: Industries of the Future Grant from Employment Security Division
Recipient: North Central Workforce Development Council (NCWDC)
Amount: $120,930
Contact: Dave Peterson, Director NCWDC, 509-663-3091

This project expands training started under a pilot project in agriculture and food processing. Incumbent workers will receive technical training in areas such as electrical systems and equipment maintenance, water and steam systems, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, and refrigeration systems. Some workers will also attend vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. The goals of the project are increased earnings, skill acquisition that leads to achieving a skill standard, and promotion.
Yakima
Type: High Demand Program Implementation Grant administered by SBCTC
Recipient: Yakima Valley Community College
Amount: $95,746
Project Title: Nursing Careers
Contact: Nick Parisi, 509-574-4756

The demand for trained nurses exceeds the supply in the three districts served by Yakima Valley Community College. The effort to increase that supply will focus on three goals related to the education and training of registered nurses. The three goals related to this grant include: increasing the capacity in the nursing department by 24 students to allow one additional cohort class; evaluating and restructuring the curriculum to better align with ever-changing community needs; and determining the feasibility of offering courses in a non-traditional delivery time and/or format.

See Columbia Basin College listing for collaborative High Demand Project (Consortium for Rural Eastern Washington Allied Health) with Big Bend, Walla Walla, Wenatchee Valley and Yakima Valley Community Colleges.

Related Links:
- Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
- Employment Security Department
- Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board

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