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Mission & Goals

This new membership organization has the MISSION to identify and address nursing work force issues in Colorado through five regional councils for facilitated collaboration among employers and educators. 

The Consortium is led by the Colorado AHEC Director, Marie Miller, Ph.D., RN and the Officers of the Executive Committee of this Colorado Colleagues in Caring: Regional Collaborative, RWJ Foundation.  Made possible by the generous funding of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,  UCHSC-AHEC and Contributors from across the state. 

The Consortium has committed to four (4) major Goals:

  1. Develop regional and statewide employer/educator and educator/educator relationships that identify and address current and future work force and educational needs and expectations.
  2. Develop pre/post educational strategies that provide mastery in setting specific skills/competencies in Acute Care, Home Health, Long Term Care, Public Health.
  3. Establish systems to gather and quantify dependable data on current work force capacities and to anticipate and forecast future capacities.
  4. Ensure that the Consortium represents primary stakeholder's and has long term viability.