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February 22, 2008

Summary – 2/22/08 Retain/Retrain Team 
“Cape Fear Allied Health Regional Skills Partnership (RSP)”

Attendees:  Yvonne English, Teresa Langley, Jane Jones, Walker Biggs, Clarence Smith,
          David La Garde, Lashauna Parker, 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 a team leader.
•    A list of possible additional recruits for this team.

Action List:
What who when

Summarize the notes from today’s meeting Rob 2­25­08

Develop a sampling of providers to be reviewed Jane, David 3­28­08

(or a strategy for doing such)

Draft questions for both surveys Yvonne, Clarence, Teresa 4/8/08 

Obtain the county listing of allied health providers Walter 2­29­08

Recruit service providers from community colleges  Clarence 4­8­08

& NHRMC

Next Meeting:
 Date: Tuesday, April 8th Topics:  ­ Survey questions
Time: 9:00­11:00 AM   ­ Provider sampling
Place: NH Co. ESC/Joblink Center    ­ Recruiting providers
Planning: Clarence, Rob, Lashauna

Meeting Debrief:

Positives: + Interaction of Team
+ Started Broad and then focused
+ Stayed  on time
+ Open communications

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
Retain/Retrain Team Charter

Task: Develop plans to retain and retrain the current workforce

Deliverables:

• Identify the stakeholders (who we want to reach)
• Develop a “model” career lattice
­ Identify kills, knowledge & credentials neede to move up the career lattice
• Identify a list of barriers to retaining allied health employees
• Identify service providers to offer training
• Gain access to financial resources
• Identify what workers need to be retained (salary, benefits)
• Conduct a survey of service provider organizations (salary, benefits, turnover rates)
• Develop a plan for credential testing in our region
 • Develop strategies for retaining/retraining

Ground Rules:
• Meet on a regularly scheduled basis
• All meetings to be planned, facilitated and result in action lists 
• Try not to replicate work that is already going on. Add value.
• Seek community input on both strategies and plans.

Measures of Success

• Having a realistic plan to meet the task within prescribed timelines
• Plans are adopted

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: 2nd Tuesday of month
Time of day: 9:00­11:00 AM
Location: NH Co ESC/Joblink
Other considerations: Water, coffee
2008 meeting dates: 4/8, 5/12, 6/9, 7/14; 8/12; 9/9, 10/14, 11/11
Expectations of each other:
• Respect others ideas
• One person speak @ a time
• Start and end on time
• Complete assignments for meetings
• Let leader know if you can’t make a meeting or complete an assignment

Deliverable Priorities:  Prioritization votes shown in parenthesis (based on which to do first)

• Identify what workers need to be retained (salary, benefits)      (3)
• Conduct a survey of service provider organizations (salary, benefits, turnover rates)  (3)
• Identify the stakeholders (who we want to reach)      (2)
 • Develop a “model” career lattice      (2)

Survey Service Providers:     Next Steps

• Identify providers to be surveyed
• Identify the questions to be asked
• Work with the other teams to develop the survey process
• Assign responsibilities for conducting the survey
• Analyze the data

Identify workers needs:     Next Steps

• Identify the target workers
• Get permission from the service provider organizations to survey the workers
• Identify the questions to be asked
• Develop the survey process
• Assign responsibilities for conducting the survey
• Analyze the data

Team Leader: Clarence Smith

Team Member needs:

• NHRMC
• Duplin Co. service providers
• Pender Co. service providers
• Brunswick County service providers
• James Sprunt