1. Workforce Development Plan Worksheet Step 3 Drivers and Restrainers PHAB Measures/ Activities Step 1 Current State Step 2 Purpose, What to Do, How to Do Step 4 Pause Step 5 Work Plan Step 6 Sustaining Gains and Improvements Establish relationships with academia (8.1.1 S and 10.1.2 T/S) and others (8.1.1 T/L & 10.2.2 A) Assess HD workforce competencies & gaps (8.2.1 A) Address competency gaps (8.2.1 A) Leadership and management development activities (8.2.2 A) SHD assistance to Tribal & Local HDs (8.2.3 S) Use IT to support HD mission & workforce (11.1.6 A). May support other training-related documentation needs. Integrate Core Competencies into job descriptions (11.1.5 A) Recruitment & retention issues/ needs (11.1.5 A) Other Scoring Drivers and Restrainers: 1 – weak driver, 5 – moderate driver, 10 – major driver -1 – minimal restrainer, -5 – moderate restrainer, -10 – major restrainer Provided by the Public Health Foundation WWW.PHF.ORG

2. PHAB Measures/ Activities 9. Tasks 10. Targets 11. Measures 12. Timelines 13. Key Partnerships 14. Costs 15. Responsibilities Establish relationships with academia (8.1.1 S and 10.1.2 T/S) and others (8.1.1 T/L & 10.2.2 A) Assess HD Workforce competencies & gaps (8.2.1 A) Address competency gaps (8.2.1 A) Leadership and management development activities (8.2.2 A) SHD assistance to Tribal & Local HDs (8.2.3 S) Use IT to support HD mission & Workforce (11.1.6 A). May support other training-related documentation needs. Integrate Core Competencies into job descriptions (11.1.5 A) Recruitment & retention issues/ needs (11.1.5 A) Step 5: Work Plan Provided by the Public Health Foundation WWW.PHF.ORG

3. Example of CONTENTS of a Workforce Development Plan  Introduction  Purpose  Definitions  Core Values  Brief Overview of the Public Health Workforce Profile  Anticipated Future Workforce  Assessment of the Health Department’s Workforce Needs and Gaps  Description of Health Department Workforce Development Plan  Roles and Responsibilities  Training for the Workforce (Staff, New Hires, Volunteers, Interns, and Students)  20XX Health Department Workforce Development Plan  Implementation  Communication Strategies  Preparing the Future Public Health Workforce  Sustainability  Assessment Process - Workforce Development Plan  Conclusions and Recommendations Provided by the Public Health Foundation WWW.PHF.ORG

4. Workforce Development Resources from the Public Health Foundation Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice  Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies)  Tools to assist practitioners use the Core Competencies  Examples of Core Competencies use  Academic Health Department Learning Community  Sharing ways to develop, maintain, and enhance relationships between public health practice and academic organizations  Most meetings require no travel  Free to join – 130 members to date  Improving and measuring the impact of training  Guide being developed to help trainers and sponsors of training improve and measure the impact of training  Strategies address ways to assess training needs, motivate learners and trainers, effectively design and deliver training, and evaluate the impact of training  Draft document posted online http://www.phf.org/programs/council/ TRAIN – the nation’s premier learning management system for public health  Over 720,000 registered learners  Over 29,000 training programs  Over 4,000 providers of training  A FREE resource for public health professionals https://www.train.org/ Learning Resource Center – where public health, healthcare, and allied health professionals find high quality training materials at an affordable price  Comprehensive selection of public health quality improvement publications  Many consumer-oriented health education publications  Search for publications by CDC’s Winnable Battles and many other public health topics http://bookstore.phf.org/ Provided by the Public Health Foundation WWW.PHF.ORG