High Growth Job Training
Long-Term Care Apprenticeship Program
The purpose of the program is to implement and pilot a training program to increase the capacity of long-term care industry and meet the growing demand for services and supports needed by older Alaskans and people with disabilities through leveraged partnerships between.
Long-Term Employers
Education systems
Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development
One-Stop Centers
US Department of Labor
Goals
Strengthen and coordinate partnerships between education, workforce investment and economic development systems, and employers to implement an industry-driven Long-Term Care Apprenticeship Program
Increase awareness of access to long-term care careers with K-12 Career Centers and youth-at-risk enrolled in non-traditional vocational training programs
Advocate for and promote policy changes needed to establish a credentialing process recognized by the long-term care industry and State Department of Health and Social Services
