DSU, Wellness Village ink workforce program deal [Video]

MILFORD — A $5 million grant will help solve an age-old problem in Delaware as two entities partner to care for the First State’s growing and aging population.

The grant, made available through the congressionally directed spending process thanks to Delaware’s delegates – U.S. Sens Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) – was awarded from the U.S. Health and Human Services to Delaware State University’s Wesley College of Health and Behavioral Science.

The Historically Black University will use the funds to partner with Education, Health and Research International, Inc. (EHRI) based out of the Milford Wellness Village to create a new Geriatric Workforce Education Program, offering unique training opportunities to students training to join the health care workforce.

“One of the things we can do and need to do is put together a workforce, train a workforce, to work with people my age and the age of Joe Biden and to …