Health and Long Term Care Career Promotion Grant

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Health and Long Term CareCareer Promotion Grant

• Detroit Lakes
• Healthcare
• Consortium

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Presenters

• John Flatt Detroit Lakes High School
• School-to-Work Coordinator
• jflatt_at_detlakes.k12.mn.us
• Vicki Johnson Detroit Lakes High School
• Health Educator HOSA Advisor
• vjohnson_at_detlakes.k12.mn.us

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Health and Long Term CareCareer Promotion Grant

• Business Partners

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Business Partners

• MN State Community Technical College
• MeritCare Clinic
• Dakota Clinic
• St. Marys Regional Health Center
• Emmanuel Community
• Becker County Community Health

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Health Care and Long-term Care Career Promotion
Grants

• GOAL Developing intergenerational programs to
  encourage middle and high school students to work
  and volunteer in health care and long-term care
  settings

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Health Care and Long-term Care Career Promotion
Grants

• Detroit Lakes Public Schools received a 15,000
  grant from the MDE and MDH
• Detroit Lakes Public Schools received a 5,000
  companion grant from West Central Initiative

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DL Grant Scope and Purpose

• Develop a comprehensive health careers
  exploration program by creating a K-12 system of
  curricula, programs, and activities through
  increased collaboration and cooperation between
  local schools, MSCTC, and several area healthcare
  and long-term care providers

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Project Outcomes

• Provide career awareness, career exploration, and
  career experience for students K-12 by expanding
  work-based learning opportunities.
• Field trips
• Classroom Speakers
• Volunteerism
• Job Shadowing
• Internships

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Project Outcomes

• Implement a Two-Day Workshop
• Provide current labor market information and
  demographics
• Provide tours of health care providers
• Examine existing curriculum to identify
  weaknesses and strengths
• Make appropriate curriculum connections to
  integrate new information

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Project Outcomes

• Implement a Two-Day Workshop
• Inform participants on key issues
• Provide collaboration time for educators and area
  healthcare providers

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Project Outcomes

• Implement a Two-Day Workshop that involves K-12
  educators
• 7 Elementary teachers
• 3 Middle School teachers/counselors
• 7 High School teachers/counselors

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Project Outcomes

• Provide Curriculum Writing Follow-up Time
• 6 hours per Elementary teacher
• 6 hours per Middle School teacher
• 10 hours per High School teacher/counselor

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Project Outcomes

• Create Instructional Units
• Elementary
• Middle School
• High School
• Provide examples of how academic knowledge and
  skills are used in a variety of healthcare
  settings.

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Project Outcomes

• Create Grade Level Curriculum Units
• Instructional Topics
• Graduation Standards
• Health Care Core Skills
• Work-Based Learning Experiences
• Post-Secondary Articulation (11th and 12th)

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Project Outcomes

• Develop a Resource Guide
• Create a Speakers Bureau
• Create a Work-Based Learning Database
• Create a Health Careers Pathway Brochure
• suggested courses
• career ladders

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Project Outcomes

• Create an informational page in the DLHS
  Registration Manual
• Create a Health Careers Pathway Brochure
• suggested courses
• career ladders

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Project Outcomes

• Improve the following courses
• Health Careers
• Health Experience
• Nursing Assistant / Home Health Aide
• Anatomy/Physiology and Medical Terminology

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Project Outcomes

• Organize a HOSA Chapter at DLHS
  (Health Occupations Students of America)
• Promote opportunities for students to earn
  Certificates of Advanced Standing with MSCTC
• Promote industry-based Skill Certificates in
  Health Occupations to reflect entry-level skills

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Project Outcomes

• Conduct a 1/2 day Career Festival
  for ALL 8th Grade Students

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Health and Long Term Care Careers Promotion
Project

• THANK
• YOU!