Ventura Nursing Legacy Project

Ventura County Community Foundation

California State University Channel Islands

Tina Knight, Vice President, Programs & Grants, Ventura County Community Foundation (VCCF)

tknight@vccf.org, 805-988-0196, ext. 120

Hugh J. Ralston, President & CEO, VCCF

hralston@vccf.org, 805-988-0196, ext. 116

Hoa Tran, Program Officer, VCCF,

htran@vccf.org, 805-988-0196, ext. 121

Barbara Thorpe, Associate Vice President for Research & Sponsored Programs, CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)

Barbara.Thorpe@csuci.edu, 805-437-8495

Dr. Karen Jensen, Director, Nursing Program, CSUCI

Jensen.Karen@csuci.edu, 805-437-8495

Amanda Quintero, Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, CSUCI

Amanda.quintero@csuci.edu, 805-437-3285

Brief Project Synopsis: 

The purpose of the Ventura Nursing Legacy Project (VNLP) is to increase and improve local capacity to meet long term nursing shortages affecting our region.   Developing credible strategies that engages key stakeholders is a critical outcome.  The VNLP, through convening countywide stakeholders active in the healthcare field to identify issues and strategies surrounding nursing in Ventura County.

Project Goals and Objectives:

Our project goals and objectives are:

• Determine priority issues for nursing in Ventura County through initial and ongoing scanning of regional needs by nurse leaders.
• Convene a panel of Nurse leaders to determine priority issues using a consensus model
• Create a consensus report to the community outlining the priority issues, and strategies developed through the model that would address the priority issues
• Propose methods of addressing regional priority issues through a nursing summit to be explored further in two symposia around some of these key priority issues and strategies developed from field expertise, including
• Hold a nursing summit to invite health field workers, health institutions, nonprofit organizations, government & civic leaders, the educational community and the community at large to assist in developing strategies to address the priority nursing issues. 
• Analyze suggested strategies to examine major themes and fundability of priority and recommended strategies.
• Hold two countywide nursing symposia to educate the nursing, health care, P-16 education and funding communities about potential strategies and model programs related to major strategies, and engage funder interest.
• Educate stakeholder and funding community about priority issues for future funding
• Develop and implement an educational campaign to educate the funding community and other key stakeholders on issues and strategies.  These may include one-on-one presentations, presentations to groups of funders, and/or reports to the funding community, as well as to an expanded group of engaged community leaders.
• Create a strategy that links regional and local funders to the priorities of the initiative.
• Utilize VCCF and CSUCI’s relationships with local and regional funders to highlight the priorities of the initiative through the Ventura County Funders Forum and other venues to engage funders around key strategies developed in phase 1.
• Develop a Nurse Leaders review committee, who can serve as a resource to foundations to review and provide feedback on technical aspects of nursing proposals to local and regional foundations.
• Expand VCCF’s own programmatic responses to the strategies, with a particular focus on scholarship opportunities, its women’s and Latino funds and the work of the Civic Alliance, including the emphasis on partnerships around workforce education strategies.