Houston Community College-Southeast/University of Delhi
Cooperative Training Model
State:
Texas
Country:
India
Award Date:
Award Amount:
$99,778.00
Cost Share:
$101,631.00
Other Partners:
Texas Medical Center; Spantron, Inc.; The East End Chamber of Commerce (United States); Delhi Centre for Women’s Studies; PHD Chamber of Commerce; Centre for Higher Education in Professional Development
This partnership developed a model of cooperative training to provide students, especially women, with marketable skills for health careers. During a workshop involving Indian partners and 30 faculty, doctors, and administrators from Houston Community College-Southeast and the Texas Medical Center, the partners designed the curriculum for 12 new vocational courses, seven more than originally planned. These courses focused on family and child welfare, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and health management. During two separate seminars, more than 20 hospital administrators and policy makers devised an action plan to conduct the new courses at various institutions in India. More than 200 participants from the University of Delhi and from leading hospitals, government agencies, voluntary organizations, and other local institutions attended a workshop in New Delhi that identified key curriculum areas and targeted technical training of health care professionals in India. Fifty participants attended a second workshop, which addressed technical training needs for health care professionals in India and the ways in which universities could make higher education programs more practical to address those needs. Partners developed two distance education courses on HIV/AIDS, to be used by Indian partners and hospital professionals.