Summer Health Careers Institute – Santa Rosa |
Program Components: Curriculum development Secondary-post secondary partnership Business-community partnership Collaborative funding
Limited English Proficient Students Title of Program: Summer Health Careers Institute College: Santa Rosa Jr. College College Contact: Jeannie Dulberg,Manager Healthcare Workforce Development Program, Workforce Training Tel: 707.535.3747 Email: jdulberg@santarosa.edu Target Population: culturally diverse, bilingual, low income high school studentsprimarily Latino youth. Goals: to promote interest in the health care professions and create opportunities topursue health careers for a diverse population in Sonoma County. Description: In 2001 the Healthcare Workforce Development Roundtable dreamed ofcreating an opportunity for low income students to have an opportunity to explore health careers. This dream was realized in the 2005 Summer Health Careers Institute. In it’s first year of operation (the summer of 2005) twenty local high school students were selected from 100 high school nominees to participate in the five week institute to explore firsthand health care careers both on campus and at health care providers in the community. Meeting Monday through Friday from 9am to 3pm, students attended classes in the Race Health Sciences Building In these classes students reviewed topics ranging from medical terminology and universal precautions to the history of medicine. Student’s also job-shadowed professionals on site and at health care organizations, including the Sonoma County Health Department, Kaiser Hospital, Memorial Hospital, and Sutter Hospital. Student participants earned 15 high school credits and 5 college units, plus they each received a stipend of $1,250. This upcoming summer’s Health Career Institute will serve 22 students, each of whom will receive a stipend of $1,000. Staffing: the Health Care Institute staff is composed of one full time managementposition, one administrative assistant, and one full time bilingual/bicultural outreach coordinator. Facilities, equipment, materials : the program is housed on campus within new HealthSciences Building. This state-of-the-art facility has the latest in telecommunication and Health Care/Health Sciences technology, and has the capacity to double as a fully operating Hospital as needed. Costs, funding source: the cost of operating the Summer Institute program isapproximately $100,000. Funding has been primarily through a Chancellor’s Office Industry Driven Regional Collaborative (IDRC) grant, however local fund raising has 105 contributed to funding the operation, and local hospitals have donated significant in-kind money toward the project. Outreach and marketing: all of the staff participate in outreach activities at local highschools and community organizations to promote participation in the project, however a very effective bilingual/bicultural outreach specialist devotes a significant amount of time in outreach to the Latino community in efforts to recruit participation, and keep the community aware of the success of this activity. Evidence of effectiveness: of the 20 students entering last summers program, 100%completed the program. Out of 500 attendance days, only 8 days were lost due to absences. As a follow up, the program holds Bi-monthly events for last year’s graduates that are well attended. These events are planned to keep student interest up, and allows the program to track student’s future plans. At this point 100% of all last summers attendees are planning to go on to college, and four are planning to continue their education at Santa Rosa Jr. College upon graduation from high school. Suggestions for replication: as developed at Santa Rosa Jr. College, this program needsseed money from grants or business and industry to be replicated. Program staff believe that there is significant Health Care/Hospital interest in such activities, and believes that enthusiastic fund raising activities could raise a portion of the necessary funds, if not all the necessary funds for a scaled down version of this program. Bay/Interior Bay (3/4) Career area: Health
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