Ongoing Initiatives
New Hampshire partners have mobilized to launch bold, innovative projects to address the state’s need for a dedicated, robust health care workforce.
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Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing
This innovative program allows students to complete 124 credits in less than three years on a 12-month academic calendar and integrates 36 hours of those credits during three immersive paid clinical experiences as an employee of a partner hospital.
Read moreAdvanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW)
The goal of this project is to provide traineeship and tuition reimbursement funds for longitudinal, immersive clinical training experiences with rural and underserved populations for primary care student nurse practitioners.
Read moreApprenticeship and Workforce Development Programs
The goal of this initiative is to plan, develop, and run programs that train workers to meet health care worker gaps and to promote their development through their careers.
Read moreApprenticeshipNH
This program works with employers to create paid health care workforce apprenticeships in NH. There is also a subsection of the program that focuses on connecting high school students with employers to build pre-apprenticeship programs.
Read moreBehavioral Health Education Roundtable
This is an ongoing series of roundtables to gain an understanding of the needs of employers. An additional goal is to understand what programs, degrees, and certificates are currently being offered through higher education in the field of mental and behavioral health. Participants work together to identify potential gaps in workforce development and identify educational strategies for addressing these gaps. This includes colleges, IDNs, community organizations, and employers in the field of mental and behavioral health. This group meets twice per year, and is open for new people to join.
Read moreBi-State Primary Care Association
This organization aims to increase access to quality, affordable primary care services for all, with a particular focus on underserved populations, by providing technical assistance and trainings to Federally-Qualified Health Centers and Look-Alikes. This organization serves NH and well as VT.
Read moreBi-State’s Recruitment Center
This organization serves three functions: 1.) Identifying matches between healthcare professionals and job opportunities in Vermont and New Hampshire, 2.) Creating messages for marketing healthcare openings in NH that can be used by healthcare employers throughout the state, 3.) Increase dentists practicing in NH by partnering with community dental sites in New Hampshire and Harvard School of Dental Medicine to establish training sites for residents in Harvard's Dental Public Health and Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Programs.
Read moreCommunity College Roundtable
This roundtable was assembled to energize the community college system in NH to restart and create more and larger LPN training programs.
Read moreCredentialing Support Partnership (CSP)
This project aims to increase the number of licensed LADCs and MLADCs throughout NH by offering candidates one-on-one support, skill building, mentoring and coaching to guide them through the licensure process.
Read moreDartmouth-Hitchcock Readiness Program
This initiative offers readiness programs to help individuals fill gaps to graduate high school or earn a GED. In doing so, they allow individuals to obtain the basic skills and knowledge to begin the pursuit of a career in healthcare.
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