The executive office of health and human services is hereby directed to establish the ladders to licensure grant program, a public-private partnership to: (1) Increase the number of licensed health professionals; (2) Increase racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity of health professionals; (3) Provide academic, financial, and wrap around supports to enable working adults to obtain health professional higher education degrees and license; (4) Leverage employer support for academic, financial, and wraparound supports; (5) Align with existing state workforce and higher education initiatives; (6) Develop and implement career ladders with tiered training and education requirements and corresponding salary increases; (7) Develop and implement interscholastic and interdepartmental agreements that accept prior learning, credentials, work experience, and academic credits towards requirements for higher education health professional degrees; (8) Establish policies and initiatives to counter systemic racism and other institutional barriers to participation and advancement of underrepresented populations; (9) Establish policies al degrees; (8) Establish policies and initiatives to counter systemic racism and other institutional barriers to participation and advancement of underrepresented populations; (9) Establish policies and initiatives that provide flexible scheduling of work hours and/or academic programs to reduce barriers to participation; and (10) Identify state policy barriers to entry and advancement in the field. History of Section.P.L. 2024, ch. 117, art. 11, § 5, effective July 1, 2024; P.L. 2024, ch. 384, § 1, effective July 1, 2024; P.L. 2024, ch. 385, § 1, effective July 1, 2024.
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