Collaborating to Fill Health Care Jobs

CrainsCleveland.com reports today that the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are collaborating with partners at Cuyahoga Community College to use a $2.5 million grant to train as many as 900 people for jobs in health care.

The partners of Advance Northeast Ohio have identified health care as one of the key sectors where the region needs to do more to prepare, attract and retain talent. This new effort joins several other efforts to improve health care talent development, including NEO Health Force in the Mahoning Valley, a collaboration in Stark and surrounding counties and the Northeast Ohio Nursing Initiative. Several of the region's hospitals also are working together to shape a talent development program.

All of these efforts coincide with the state's new push for a more demand-driven talent development system. Hopefully, there'll be similar collaborations announced soon targeting other key industries, including manufacturing and information technology.