Health Care

ETA understands that local partnerships, including employers, employees, workforce intermediaries, educators and other community members, are needed to implement workforce solutions. ETA's 22 investments are unique and innovative industry-driven partnerships that include employers, the public workforce system, and education and training providers. Each demonstration project funded during the first round of national models addresses one or more of the industry's identified workforce challenges.

The results and knowledge gained from the 22 health care demonstration projects will help shape ETA's broader HGJTI efforts. Equally important, the models developed and lessons learned in these demonstrations will serve as a foundation for building the public workforce system's capacity to be demand-driven, shaping and enhancing ETA's technical assistance activities in the health care industry.

For the most up-to-date information on ETA investments in workforce solutions and a copy of the report that was prepared for the Employment and Training Administration, Identifying and Addressing Workforce Challenges, go to www.doleta.gov/BRG.

National Programs
Apprenticeship
There are 4,148 apprentices employed and training in the health care profession across the country, ranging from Certified Nursing Assistants and Licensed Practical Nurses to Surgical Technologists and Emergency Medical Technicians.

Job Corps
Job Corps provides training in 12 health-related vocations, including nursing, with 105 of its 118 centers providing health-related vocational training. In Program Year 2002, Job Corps graduated 5,828 individuals in health care vocations.