Just in case a picture IS worth a thousand words, I played with Powerpoint tonight. The goal was to diagram a structure for the RETAIN service at the community level. This picture presumes that you ha

Welcome to all of the new people who have joined our list-serv in the last couple of days. Some of you are occupational medicine physicians/clinicians, and some of you are from organizations in states

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Hello all, I am an Occupational Medicine physician who is currently practicing a mix of occupational health & substance abuse treatment. As we all know, the opioid epidemic is wreaking havoc in our wo

There is ANOTHER Federal grant program from the US Dept of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL-ETA) that some of you may want to consider applying for. These are somewhat smaller grant

From: RETAIN Demonstration Projects <SAW-RTW@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 3:07 PM To: RETAIN Demonstration Projects <SAW-RTW@...> Subject: Recording, Transcript, and Expanded Answers from 2nd RETA

After conversations this week with people who are familiar with many prior Federal procurements and also with the attitude of the involved Federal agencies towards RETAIN, I very strongly encourage yo

Good morning – I am new here, and from #NC - North Carolina. I am a certified occupational health nurse (COHN), and have been working industrial OH for 10 years. I would love to get involved on a RETA

As you all know by now, creating a RETAIN proposal requires collaboration among people in different state agencies and also in healthcare delivery organizations. And creating a RETAIN program that is

Greetings, I am eager to meet all Massachusetts RETAINers. All the Best, Laura Dinsmore, #MA __________________ Laura Dinsmore President and CEO Quadrant Health Strategies, Inc. 500 Cummings Center, S

I am the founder of Take Courage Coaching, a pain management resource for those with chronic pain. We have had great success with SAW/RTW. I am very interested in being actively involved in RETAIN in

I am a board-certified occupational medicine physician with years of experience in clinical medicine, consulting, and innovation. I have a particular interest in workplace wellness, and understanding

Attached is a list of the state agencies that appear most likely to be taking the lead in a RETAIN proposal. For each one on the list, there is a link that gets you to their website. For many, there a

Hello all Dr. Tom Winters and I are interested in assisting for MA Karin Sullivan Executive Director Occupational and Environmental Health Network, P.C. 5 Mount Royal Avenue # 50 Marlborough MA 01752

See email from the Feds below! Your input has made a concrete difference -- two more weeks to get your proposals written and submitted! And this IS a confirmation that the Feds are listening and tryin

One way to look at RETAIN is as a beginning – of a long-term effort to START establishing accountability within government and to a lesser extent within other sectors of the economy for preventing nee

A request for assistance finding some occupational medicine physicians (or other occupational health professionals with expertise in the SAW/RTW process) came into ACOEM from the FL Dept of Economic O

Dear Retainers, I am a certified occupational health nurse specialist that has been in Occupational Health x 39 years. I would love to work with the Texas group. We have both Workers’ Comp and Non-Sub

Hello, I work in Occupational Health in MN/ND. I am interested in getting more people back to the work force safely. Very interested in this program and whatever I can do to help. #MN #ND Thanks! Mega

You may have already figured this out, but one group asked me to think with them about two parts of the proposal: (1) Project Logic Model to illustrate Theory of Change and (2) Organizational Chart. H