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February 21, 2008

Summary – 2/20/08 New Worker Team 
“Cape Fear Allied Health Regional Skills Partnership (RSP)”

Attendees:  Cathy Burwell, Teresa Triplett, Ginger Scott, Jay Coughenour, Matt Burgess, 
        Dave La Garde, Rob Gerlach

Accomplishments:
• Agreement to a charter for the Training Capacity Team.
•    Agreement to how we will operate as a team.
•    Agreement to charter deliverable priorities.
•    Agreement to next steps for the first 1­2 deliverables.
•    Agreement to an interim team leader

Action List:
What who when

Summarize the notes from today’s meeting Rob 2­21­08

Distribute the full RSP roster to this team Matt 2­21­08

Obtain related Labor Dept. info Teresa 4/4/08 

Investigate UNCW assistance in collecting data Jay 4/4/08

E­mail the grant data resources to the team Matt 2/27/08

Contact Coastal AHEC for information Ginger 4/4/08

Next Meeting:
 Date: Friday, April 4th Topics: ­ Action list items
Time: 9:30­11:30 AM ­ Recruitment
Place: BCC­Leland
Planning: Cathy, Rob, Matt

Meeting Debrief:
Positives: + Structured, organized Changes: ­ More specifics
+ Location ­ Don’t let the agenda dictate
   limits on dialogue

MEETING NOTES

Project Flow Diagram

RSP LEADERSHIP TEAM

- Approve leadership team charter
1/23/08 - Identify Allied Health Issues
- Form sub-teams and identify team members

February 2008 “Training
“Retain
“Attract &
and
Capacity” Retrain support
Sub-team current new
staff” workers”
Sub-Team Sub-team
 RSP LEADERSHIP TEAM
- Approve Sub-team charters
March to December 2008 - Approve Sub-team strategies
- Approve Sub-team implementation plans

CAPE FEAR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

November 2008 & N.C. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

Cape Fear Allied Health Regional Skills Partnership
New Worker Team Charter

Task: Develop plans for attracting and supporting new workers

Deliverables:

• Produce data regarding Allied Health needs.
­  Identify the populations need for allied health care
­  Review existing information sources
• Perform a needs assessment for new workers (include data from current providers)
• Investigate current impediments to attracting new workers
• Prioritize new worker needs
• ­ Develop strategies to meet priority needs, such as:
­ A community outreach plan
­ Mechanisms to expose youth to health care careers
Ground Rules:
• Meet on a regularly scheduled basis
• All meetings to be planned, facilitated and result in action lists of who will do what 
and by when.
• Try not to replicate work that is already going on. Add value.
• Seek community input on both strategies and plans.
• Develop a framework to deliver support services to assist candidates with 
      what they to attain the required skills/education 

Measures of Success

• Meet the deliverables within the allotted time frame
• Creative solutions

Timelines:

• Sub­committee strategy recommendations by 8/1/08.
• Sub­committee implementation plan recommendations by 11/1/08.

How we will Operate as a Team

Meeting frequency: Monthly
Length of meetings: 2 hours
Day of month: 1st Friday of month
Time of day: 9:30­11:30PM
Location: Brunswick Community Collage (BCC) – Leland
Other considerations: Water
2008 meeting dates: 4/4, 5/2, 6/6, 7/11; 8/1; 9/5, 10/3, 11/7
Expectations of each other:
• Show up
• Do your homework
• Pair up on assignments
• Be open to all ideas

Deliverable Priorities:  Prioritization votes shown in parenthesis

• Review existing information sources        (4) 
• Perform a needs assessment for new workers (include data from current providers)    (4)
 • Investigate current impediments to attracting new workers                                            (3)
• Identify the populations need for allied health care                                                        (1)

Review Existing Info Sources:     Next Steps

• Grant Data
• Collect Economic Development Data
• Identify other data sources
• Check other RSP groups for data
• Seek research assistance from UNCW
• Salary Data and Trends
• Population projection data

Team Leader: Cathy Burwell (interim)