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CSU WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

CWDC Meeting

9.23.22

Lise Youngblade, Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences

Melissa Meltzer, Professional Education Manager, Office of Engagement and Extension

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OVERVIEW

The example of mental and behavioral health

Burning problems/key opportunities

Office of Engagement and Extension

CSU’s mission and commitment to the state

Unique mission of the land grant

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LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES

  • Designated by Morrill Acts of 1865 and 1890
  • Key features:
    • Access to education for its citizens
    • Resource to the state, home to Extension service
    • Focused, originally, in agriculture, engineering, science, military science
    • Strong roots in home economics
    • Explicit focus on practical training

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CSU’S MISSION

TEACHING

RESEARCH

SERVICE

OUTREACH

ALL OF THESE COME TOGETHER IN OUR COMMITMENT TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, SUMMED IN THE WORD: ENGAGEMENT

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A LITTLE ABOUT CSU

  • Flagship campus in CSU System, which also includes CSU-Pueblo, and CSU Global
  • Top public research university & institution on the rise
  • Full menu of undergraduate and graduate degreed programs, across 8 colleges. Many are online.
  • Strong commitment to students who are first generation college students and others from minoritized and disadvantaged backgrounds
  • Core themes of excellence, including highly ranked programs and upper echelon in sustainability among international doctoral institutions
  • Commitment to high-impact learning practices
    • Internships, service learning, interdisciplinary training, direct work experience

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9 out of 10 recent graduates say they would choose CSU again and rate their education as excellent!

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OFFICE OF ENGAGEMENT AND EXTENSION LEARN. SERVE. THRIVE.

  • Who is OEE at CSU?
    • Extension
    • Online Degrees
    • Professional Education
    • Collaboration Campuses – Spur & Sturm
    • OLLI
  • Non-degreed options
    • Certificates
    • Badges
    • Continuing Education (CEUs)
    • Bootcamps

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OFFICE OF ENGAGEMENT AND EXTENSION  LEARN. SERVE. THRIVE.

How to Engage with OEE?

    • OEE programming
    • County offices
    • Visit a campus – Fort Collins, Spur, Sturm, Western Campus & Arkansas Valley
    • Engaged Institutes and Research Centers
    • Partners

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https://engagement.colostate.edu/

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CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

    • Critical needs in certain areas
    • Workforce shortages in those areas
    • Need for systemic pathways for students, with “off ramps” at different levels of education

Multiple competing demands:

    • Mission of a land grant institution – statewide reach, access, community engagement to generate solutions

Opportunity:

    • Mental and behavioral health
    • Education -- Teacher shortage
    • Healthcare – Nursing shortage 
    • Energy
    • Water
    • Climate
    • STEM

Some key areas:

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EXAMPLE: MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INITIATIVE

  • Problem: Diseases of despair (depression, suicide, addictions, trauma) are escalating
  • Challenges: Inequity, unmet need in access, workforce production
    • Burden of disease is not equally distributed, but untreated conditions affect us all
      • Occupations: military, construction, agriculture
      • Populations: rural, marginalized
    • Unmet need
      • Goes unnoticed because it’s hard to talk about, don’t want to make it worse
      • Systems that provide services are segregated and often difficult to find
    • Challenges to workforce production
      • We don’t train enough people, and we don’t train them from a system perspective
  • Opportunity: What can CSU as a land grant institution contribute to the solution?

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MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INITIATIVE AT CSU

  • Re-envision workforce opportunities and flexible credentials and career opportunities
  • Promote inter-professional education and training
  • Leveraging “smart” technology
  • Harness interdisciplinary research
  • Embrace statewide reach through Extension and partnerships with 2-year and 4-year institutions across the state

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Holistic Health & Resilience

Evidence-based Clinical Science

Treatment, Training, Education

(Prevention of) Depression, Suicide, Addictions, Trauma

Cultural Responsive-ness

Mental Disorder/Illness

Mental Health Problem

Mental Distress

No distress, problem or disorder

Train for this

Miss opportunity for this