Florida State Implementation Program Promoting Nurses as Leaders in Florida to Advance Nursing and Health Policy Phases 1 and 3 Project Plans: Areas of Focus: This project will build on the work of the previous round of State Implementation Program funding to offer leadership training for a diverse group of nurses, with a focus on preparing them to serve on boards. Those nurses will then serve as mentors to a group of aspiring nurse leaders. Project objectives include placing many nurses in board leadership roles. The success of this project will be communicated through published profiles and interviews, as well as infographics. A companion piece to this project is identifying a list of Florida boards that engage in health policy develop. • Leadership • Diversity • Infrastructure Contact: Mary Lou Brunell Project Director University of Florida [email protected] Ann-Lynn Denker Project Co-Director Florida Action Coalition [email protected] The project will also concentrate on strengthening the sustainability and infrastructure of the Florida Action Coalition, expanding the number of relationships with policymakers and coalitions. The project will contribute to increasing diversity of nurse leaders in Florida by recruiting diverse Action Coalition volunteers, meeting diversity goals for the leadership training, and implementing one or more recommendations of the statewide Diversity Think Tank.