The Southern New York Association
(SNYA) provides grant writing, coordination and
oversight activities for member facilities, and has been
the recipient of numerous grant opportunities that offer
provider education and training to member facilities.
Some of the funding opportunities are as follows:
SNYA was awarded $70,000 in 2001-2003 by the New York
Community Trust for a project entitled “Implementing
Educational Interventions: Palliative Care and Skilled
Nursing Facility Staff.” This project involved the
development and implementation of a palliative care
educational program to nursing home staff with a
posttest design to test the effectiveness of the
intervention on nursing home staff. This curriculum was
taught to over 300 nursing home staff representing 40
facilities and the results of our research indicated
statistically significant differences between pre and
post test groups for certain modules of learning. Our
results were presented at the national and state hospice
and palliative care conferences in 2003 in workshop and
poster sessions. SNYA is currently working on an
article for publication on the results of this grant.
SNYA was also awarded a NYSDOH Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF) grant for $603,000 for
2003-2005 to train, case manage and mentor TANF eligible
individuals for entry into LPN nursing programs.SNYA developed a curriculum based on
the LPN entrance exams that was taught to over 80
participants at five SNF locations. This grant provided
funding for the education, training, case management of
60 LPN students, many of whom have successfully
completed their education and are currently employed as
LPN’s in SNYA facilities. SNYA also developed a NCLEX
review course for TANF students, and has had a higher
than average track record of students passing the NCLEX
exam.
SNYA in September of 2005 was
awarded funding under the New York State Department of
Health Dementia Grants Projects in cooperation with
Daughters of Jacob Health Services for a project
entitled: “Improving Quality of Life: Addressing
Dementia and Challenging Behaviors” The project
objective will be to develop an educational curriculum
using a train the trainer model to provide nursing home
staff education to address dementia and challenging
behaviors in the resident population. A consortium of
seventeen nursing homes in a proactive attempt to
promote resident’s physical and emotional comfort and
to prevent incidents of abuse, neglect or mistreatment
will develop a train the trainer model for nursing home
staff that will teach staff how to intervene and
implement problem solving and appropriate behavior
management strategies.
In 2007, SNYA was awarded up to $972,984 in funding for 2007-2009 under the New York State Department of Health Workforce Retraining Initiative to support an LPN training project in New York City and Long Island. Under this grant individuals interested in becoming Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) will receive funding for educational expenses as well as technical instruction, support, and mentoring to prepare for entrance into nursing school and throughout the nursing school and nursing licensure process. After completion of this program, employment will be coordinated with the SNYA skilled nursing facilities. Applications to the program are open to non-unionized individuals who have had previous experience in health care and wish to become Licensed Practical Nurses.
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