Specifications include, but are not limited to: Funding to support public health through the Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response. This funding is intended to support public health systems in the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of CDC and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS’s) commitment to strengthen all areas of public health, at minimum 25% of the Workforce Development Grant (WFD) will be directed to k-12 school nurse program support and development across Wisconsin. Over the last two years, Wisconsin School Nurses have experienced direct impacts in their abilities to respond and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenge’s school nurses and school health services have faced during the pandemic were a result of the chronic underfunding of school health services. To strengthen the school nurse and health service workforce. The overall strategy to support school nurses have been striated into five streams of efforts to support nurses. These streams include the following: - Recruitment and Retention of School Nurses and Health Services - Development of Community and Research - Prepare a pipeline of School Nurses - Heal the Helpers - Strengthen Local Partnerships Through the DHS-DPI partnership, CESAs are invited to support the distribution of funds related to the Recruitment and Retention stream of effort.
