A Partnership of Tennessee’s
Community Colleges and Tennessee
Technology Centers
Two Components
• Student Support Services Prescription
– Focused on Retention and Completion
– Students to be served
• Individuals “thinking” about any healthcare
career/training (credit or non-credit)
• Students “on waiting lists” for a healthcare career
• Students currently enrolled in healthcare training
(credit and non-credit) at CCs or TTCs
• Current LPN students and/or working
LPNs
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Two Components
• Training Prescriptions
– LPN to RN Bridge
– Medical Informatics
– Surgery Technology
– Allied Health Science AAS Degree
– Occupational Therapy Assistant
– Non-credit healthcare programs
Phlebotomy
Patient Care Technician
EKG Technician
Emerg. Medical Dispatch
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Targeted Population
• Trade Act Adjustment Assistance eligible
workers
• Dislocated Workers/Unemployed
• Underemployed Adults and Youth
– Includes low paid healthcare workers such as
CNAs
• Others (Anybody!)
• Priority must be given to Veterans
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Student Support Prescriptions
• Prior Learning
Assessment - $ to CCs to help
staff and faculty conduct this work
• Healthcare Boot Camps - $
to CCs to fund faculty, supplies, etc. to
help students prepare for healthcare
curricula
• Digital Literacy Training
for Online Students
• Completion Coaches
- 1 or 2 per school
• Healthcare Career
Workshops - $ to CCs to pay for
faculty/staff to conduct workshops to
help students select (or not) an
appropriate healthcare career field
• Online Learning
Resources and Enhanced
Instruction Guides
• Supportive Service
funding (gas $, child care,
etc.) is NOT an allowable
expense
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Completion Coaches
• Focused on ensuring students complete their education
and go to work
– Includes institutional wide training with institutional flexibility to
accommodate individual school culture and processes
• Specifically trained to conduct high-touch advisement
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Development of Academic Plans
Ensure use of services such as counseling & career –planning
Ensure engagement in other Student Support Prescriptions
Engage Community College faculty and staff in enhancing
services to students
– Will guide students through 1-on-1 counseling, group
advisement, online tools, etc.
– Will ensure TTC students interested in healthcare training at CCs
have access to above services as appropriate
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Training Prescriptions
• Focused on Synchronous Delivery (Adobe
Connect)
• Enhanced with Curriculum Specialists and
Educational and Instructional Technologists
expertise
• Enhanced with embedded training tools,
student engagement components, etc.
• Tuition will be charged
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Training Prescriptions
• Allied Health Science AAS Degree – current degree will be
enhanced for expanded delivery to recruit TTC health
science diploma graduates
(RSCC*/Vol/Cleveland/Chat/Columbia/Southwest/Walters) Lead: Dr. Mike Laman
• Occupational Therapy Assistant Degree - current RSCC*
degree will be enhanced for delivery (Collaboration offered through the
East TN Allied Health Alliance including RSCC, Chat &Cleveland States) Lead: Teri Gergen
• Surgery Technology Degree – New degree
will be offered at multiple CCs (Collaboration
with RSCC*/Walters State and offered through the East TN Allied
Health Alliance including Cleveland State)
Lead: Dr. Mike Laman
*lead school
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Training Prescriptions
• LPN to RN Bridge – Current programs will be
enhanced for online delivery at multiple CCs
(RSCC*/Cleveland/Columbia/Dyersburg/Motlow/Northeast/Pellissippi/Southwest/Walt
ers) Lead: Dr. Pat Jenkins
• Medical Informatics – Current Vol State program
will be enhanced for online delivery at multiple
CCs (Vol State*/RSCC/Cleveland/Columbia/ Dyersburg/Nashville) Lead: Elvis
Brandon
• Non-Credit Healthcare Training (RSCC*)
Lead: Kirk Harris
*Lead School
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Non-Credit Training Prescriptions
• EKG Technicians - Enhance current on ground
curriculum for a hybrid delivery (online/lab) (RSCC/Vol
State/Columbia/Dyersburg/Jackson/Northeast/Walters/TTCs-McMinnville, Murfreesboro, Nashville,
Memphis)
• Phlebotomy - Enhance current on ground
curriculum for a hybrid delivery (online/lab)
(RSCC / Vol State / Columbia / Dyersburg/Jackson/Northeast/TTCs-McMinnville,
Murfreesboro, Nashville, Memphis)
• Patient Care Technician - Enhance current on ground
curriculum for a hybrid delivery (online/lab) (RSCC /Vol
State/Columbia/Dyersburg/Jackson/Walters/TTCs-Nashville)
• Emergency Medical Dispatch – Enhance current on
ground curriculum for a hybrid delivery (online/lab)
(RSCC/Vol State/Dyersburg/Northeast/Walters/TTCs-Nashville, Memphis)
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Evaluation Component
• Strong Implementation and
Outcomes Evaluation
Components
• Implementation: partner
involvement, curriculum,
support services, etc.
• Outcomes: Performance
Measures
• Outside Evaluator Required
• Surveys, Interviews, Focus
Groups
• Comparison Groups required
to determine success
• Performance Measures
– 3,939 Students Served
– 1,500 Complete Training
– 458 More still in Training when
Grant Ends
– 1,835 Complete Credit Hours
– 2,275 Earn Credential
– 100 Enroll in Further Education
– 1,300 Employed After Training
– 1,170 Employed Two Quarters
After Going to Work
– 49 Employed at Beginning of
Training That Receive a Wage
Increase
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The Budget: $12,570,415
• Staff
• Supplies
– Staff
– For training delivery
– For workshops, boot
camps, etc.
• Evaluation
• Career Readiness
Software
• Completion Coach
Training
• Travel
• Equipment for Training
Programs
• Performance Measure
Tracking/Database
• Internet Virtual
Technology/Adobe
Connect
• Professional Development
• Promotional/Printing for
Training Programs
• Indirect Costs
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RX TN Staff
• Roane State
– Program Director
– Assistant Director
– Grants
Accountant/Compliance
Officer
– Data/Technology Manager
– Curriculum Specialist/Educ. or
Instructional Technologists –
4.5**
** Also 1 for Vol State
• All Community Colleges
– Program Coordinator (.5 – 1
FTE*)
– Data Tech/Admin. Asst. (.5 – 1
FTE*)
– Completion Coaches (1 – 2
FTE*)
– Stipends for
Faculty/Staff/Tutors for
Student Support Prescriptions
*Dependent upon # of training
programs CC is participating in, #
of TTCs in service area and total
students committed to serve in
RX TN grant.
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Questions?
Contact Info:
Deb Miller
Interim RX TN Project Director
MillerDU@RoaneState.edu
(865) 882-4503