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Post your open positions with a member-only discount on AgingServicesJobs.org – the premier job board for aging services employers to post their critical to fill positions and get connected with qualified applicants.

No-cost, virtual Mental Health First Aid sessions are being offered to LeadingAge Minnesota members this spring. To accommodate the schedules of the professionals in our settings, we are hosting two virtual Saturday sessions.

The Earned Wages Access Solutions is the sixth in a series of workforce technology solution playbooks designed to assist you in identifying technology solutions to help address the workforce crisis.

No-cost Mental Health First Aid sessions are being offered to LeadingAge Minnesota members this spring. To accommodate the schedules of the professionals in our settings, we are hosting two Saturday sessions.

No-cost Mental Health First Aid sessions are being offered to LeadingAge Minnesota members this spring. To accommodate the schedules of the professionals in our settings, we are hosting two Saturday sessions.

Knute Nelson, leveraging a grant from the LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation, has developed the Connected Communities project to address the social determinants of health for seniors across five counties in west central Minnesota, focusing on whole-person health through care management, mental health support and technology.

What does it look like for a community to prepare for the future to support older adults as they age? That is the question Perham Health has been trying to answer for the last four years.

An $800,000 Connected Communities grant from the LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation has provided seed funding to develop the improved coordination of resources anticipated to improve their community's health and life outcomes.

The deadline for registering a team for this year’s ICan Quality Improvement Contest is March 14. The contest involves developing and implementing a Quality Improvement project identified and led by front-line staff.

No-cost Mental Health First Aid sessions are available to LeadingAge Minnesota members this spring.

Launched in January, this is the third month of our #ElevateAging campaign. Don’t worry if you missed out so far; you can jump in anytime!

No-cost sessions of Mental Health First Aid are being offered to LeadingAge Minnesota members this spring.

The final sessions of virtual Mental Health First Aid training are being offered at no cost to LeadingAge Minnesota members this Spring.

Three new policy briefs offer remedies for people with cognitive impairment who live alone and often don’t get timely diagnoses and have limited access to home care.

RealTime Talent (RTT) was awarded a $200,000 grant from Medica to reduce registered nursing assistant shortages in LeadingAge member settings by implementing a newly designed training approach.

The final virtual Mental Health First Aid training sessions are being offered at no cost to LeadingAge Minnesota members this Spring.

This article was contributed by Heidi Orstad, DNP, RN, PHN, CCM. Dr. Orstad is a clinical nurse consultant with Marsh McLennan Agency, a preferred vendor of LeadingAge Minnesota Solutions.

It’s no secret that senior living facilities have difficulty attracting and retaining good employees. For some workers, the wages are low, defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as $9.25 an hour or less.

Launched in January, this is the second month of our #ElevateAging campaign. Don’t worry if you missed last month; you can jump in anytime!

The Long-Term Care Infection Prevention Coalition of Hennepin County is surveying long-term care staff to inform a spring 2024 series on a team approach to antibiotic and urine culture stewardship.

LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation, in partnership with Winona State University, is sponsoring a limited number of individuals to become certified instructors of the Mental Health First Aide (MHFA) Training at no cost – a value of $2,895 per participant.

The LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation was recognized in PHI’s Top 23 Moments from 2023 for work to assess diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practices, challenges, and opportunities among member organizations across the state.