# Presentation: 807394

## Job Corps Health & Wellness Conference

- June 6, 2005  ׀  Orlando, Florida

## My Goal:

- “Big Picture” for Job Corps
- Health & Wellness Issues
- Listen

## Job Corps and ETA Strategic Alignment

- _ETA Focus:_
- Improved performance
- Alternative education
- Meeting the demands of businesses, especially in high-growth industries and occupations
- The neediest youth

## Job Corps and ETA Strategic Alignment

- _Job Corps Focus:_
- Develop and maintain close relationships with employers
- Ensure academic programs are up-to-date and students obtain a High School Diploma or GED
- Align vocational programs with current industry requirements and certifications

## Job Corps and ETA Strategic Alignment

- _Job Corps Focus:_
- Ensure students graduate with communication, social and employability skills
- Have credentialed staff who are equipped to prepare students for the workforce
- Firmly establish Job Corps as a viable partner in the alternative education system

## Becoming Demand Driven

- Knowing where the jobs are – both new jobs and current jobs that may be changing
- Knowing the skills and competencies necessary to do those jobs
- Understanding the labor market context

## Becoming Demand Driven

- Working collaboratively with business and training providers to develop workforce solutions
- Being agile enough to quickly switch Job Corps training programs to meet business demand

## Meeting Industry Needs

- Have credentialed staff who are equipped to prepare students for the workforce
- Firmly establish Job Corps as a viable partner in the alternative education system
- Create stronger paths between Job Corps and apprenticeships

## Program Initiatives

- Vocational Credentialing for Students, Staff, and Programs
- Working with business and industry to advance a major credentialing initiative for Job Corps’ vocational programs and to ensure that its programs are industry-recognized
- Academic Standards and the High School Diploma Initiative
- Instituting academic standards that lead to High School Diploma attainment and post-secondary career paths

## Program Initiatives

- Career Success Skills Standards
- 	Utilizing standards for career success that lead to skill and understanding in essential areas like Business Communications, Information Technology, Customer Service, Multicultural Awareness, and Independent Living
- Professional Development
- 	Providing opportunities for creating a highly trained professional teaching/instructor staff that is credentialed and positioned to take full advantage of up-to-date teaching approaches and resources

## PCDP Improvements

- Streamlined Admission Counselor Assessment Tool (ACAT) -- from a multi-page paper document to one automated online screen
- The Social Intake Form will print-out from CIS with pre-printed student information
- PCDP reports have been enhanced to be more student friendly

## Job Corps Operations

- Federal dollars are limited
- Quantification of benefit to students through health program?
- Determine cost reduction measures
- E.g. testing before admission?
- Cost-Effectiveness Workgroup
- Subcommittee to focus on Health & Wellness

## Student Training Costs

| BREAKDOWN OF STUDENT TRAINING COSTS |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Student Training Costs | $611,932  | 44.24% |
|           Basic Education | $106,398  | 7.69% |
|           Vocational Training | $209,517  | 15.15% |
|           Social Skills Training | $296,017  | 21.40% |
| Administration | $256,673  | 18.55% |
| Outreach/Admissions | $57,109  | 4.13% |
| Transportation | $20,748  | 1.50% |
| Meals/Lodging | $188,988  | 5.54% |
| Allowances | $93,729  | 6.78% |
| Workers Compensation Benefits | $3,465  | 0.25% |
| Medical Care | $80,715  | 5.83% |
| Career Transition Services | $69,976  | 5.06% |
| TOTAL OPERATING COST | $1,383,336  | 100.00% |

## Job Corps Operating Costs

## Healthcare Costs per Year

|  | PY 2003 | PY 2002 | PY 2001 | PY 2000 | PY 1999 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Annual Cost | $80,715, 129 | $77,561, 702 | $71516,741 | $66,820,516 | $66,079,689 |
| Cost Per Student ($) | $1268 | $1211 | $1054 | $935 | $936 |
| % change | 4.7% | 14.9% | 12.8% | -0.2% | -0.5% |

## Health & Wellness Observations

- “Eligibility” Issues
- National Eligibility Workgroup exploring issues
- Significant number of students with emotional issues – more psychotropic drugs
- New recreational drugs – training needed
- Suicide attempts and ideations

## Health & Wellness Observations

- Nutrition Issues
- Overweight students
- Considering a National Nutrition TAG
- Fatalities and assaults while on leave
- How to address this high number of significant incidents?

**Notes:**
Nutrition Technical Assistance Guide
This guide will assist Job Corps to increase the overall health of the students, reduce health complaints and health costs, and prepare students with the education and consumer habits they need to stay healthy. 
This project will transform food services into a nutrition program by guiding Job Corps Centers to improve their existing nutrition programs with nutrition education, a health-conscious food and physical activity program, and by fostering relationships with local farming communities and health food suppliers.  
Products and Outcomes Expected:  With the nutrition initiative fully implemented and maintained, the centers will see:
Increased attendance
Improved behavior and learning ability of students
Fewer health complaints
Major problems facing students addressed: i.e. obesity, diabetes, ADD and ADHD 
Improved health, behavior, and learning ability
Background:  Although the PRH includes a list of required nutrition standards, these are minimal and inadequate in guiding a health-conscious nutrition program. Not only does obesity and low physical activity lead to chronic illness, but obesity and other preventable illnesses are also costing the country billions of dollars in health care (The Impact of Obesity on Rising Medical Spending, study 2004 Health Affairs).  This Nutrition Initiative seeks to demonstrate that a health-conscious nutrition and physical activity program on Job Corps centers, coupled with local farmer relationships makes a stronger, healthier, and knowledgeable Job Corps population.  According to the Department of Health and Human Services, healthy people have increased productivity, motivation, and better attendance. 

## SHIMS Reporting

- DOL mandated to increase in filing of timely notices of injuries and illness by 5 percent in the Safety and Health Information Management System (SHIMS)
- To be considered timely, the Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP) requires the record keeper (Wellness Manager or Safety Officer) to complete and transmit Forms Compensation Act-1 and 2 to OWCP within 7 calendar days after receipt of notice from the Job Corps student.

## SHIMS Reporting

**Job Corps Wide Timeliness Report**
**FY05 Cumulative**
**10/01/2004 - 06/03/2005**

## Clearfield Job Corps Center

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