Sentences with phrase «professional health care workforce»
Family Spirit addresses intergenerational behavioral health problems, optimizes local cultural assets, and overcomes deficits in the professional health care workforce in low resource communities.
http://healthystartepic.org/ Not exact matches
«These scholarships catalyze our schools» ability to find, recruit, educate and nurture the workforce our country needs: talented professionals whose life experiences enable them to provide compassionate care to today's diverse communities and advance science to improve the health of future communities.»
As the baby boomer generation continues to reach retirement age and older health care professionals leave the workforce, demand for these jobs will grow.
It would mean cuts to programs in areas like housing, after - school, nutrition, teacher professional development, student aid, health care, work - study programs, literacy and more - all programs that support our current and future workforce, and the health and well - being of the families, schools, and communities in which our children are cared for and educated.
Mr Wellington said supporting rural and remote allied health professionals to access CPD activities was vital to ensure the integrity of multidisciplinary care in these areas, and that failing to provide for students from the bush who wish to study for allied health professions was like «shooting ourselves in the foot» as it has been shown in numerous studies that students who originate from rural areas are likely to return to become part of the health workforce.
The MA in Infant and Early Childhood Development is designed to address the urgent educational gap in the workforce by providing a master's degree for early childhood educators and administrators, allied health professionals, health - care providers, and mental - health practitioners.
Access to health services is dependent upon many factors including an appropriate workforce, and not of any one professional group but a team, whereby the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker, the aged care worker, mental health professionals, the optometrist, dentist, ambulance personnel, speech therapist and podiatrist is each as equally vital to health services as is the doctor.
Our recommendations focused on 1) the need for a trained, highly qualified, mental health workforce to the nation's young people with foster care experiences, and 2) foster and adoptive families» needs to both identify and affordably access mental health professionals that are trained to meet their unique needs.