Empowering Rural Communities: Launching Your Own Community Connector Program
The Do It Yourself (DIY) Kickstart your Community Connector Program is a comprehensive initiative designed to assist rural and regional community leaders in attracting and retaining skilled professionals, particularly in the health and social care sectors. The program offers a structured, step-by-step approach to establishing and operating a Community Connector Program (CCP). It focuses on […]
Creating Community Connections: A Path to Retaining Skilled Workers in Bundaberg
Shared with permission of Gayle Reynolds In today’s ever-evolving world, attracting and retaining skilled professionals in rural and regional communities is a challenge many towns face. Dr. Cath Cosgrave, an expert in rural workforce retention and attraction, shared valuable insights on this subject during a recent episode of the Partner Up podcast and web series by […]
Proven Success: Summary Results from the Community Connector Program Pilot Evaluation
RURAL communities can attract more health workforce professionals to their community, increase revenue for their town and widen access to preventive care, early diagnosis and early treatment for health conditions, should they commit to the Attract Connect Stay – Community Connector Program. These were a few of many findings to come out of the evaluation […]
How to solve health professional shortages in your rural community
Dr Cath Cosgrave has been on a mission to address the chronic rural health workforce shortages across the country. With a decade of research under her belt, including countless hours of interviews with health professionals and rural community members, Dr Cosgrave has discovered not only discovered the key factors fueling the current shortage – but […]
Marathon, Ontario’s Community Connector Program: ‘Secret Sauce’ Ingredients for attracting and retaining health workers
Chronic healthcare workforce shortages and high turnover of health professionals are a common challenge facing many rural communities. But there is a solution! The Attract Connect Stay – Community Connector Program draws on some ‘secret sauce’ ingredients as part of a proven strategy to help build a stronger healthcare and social care workforce in rural […]
Helping rural communities grow a stronger health workforce
Living in a rural area appeals to many for an abundance of reasons – but it often means sacrificing access to healthcare and social care services because of shortages of health professionals. It doesn’t have to be this way. Following almost a decade of research and hundreds of interviews with rural health staff, Dr Cath […]