HEALTH CAREERS EDUCATION & EXPLORATION

Sharon Norman-Center Director

The first step in the pipeline is to “grow our own” health care professionals.  This includes:

• visiting K-12 schools, colleges, organizations, and health care facilities in our 20-county Northwest Georgia area to educate students, parents, teachers, counselors, and community leaders on health careers and other opportunities that Blue Ridge AHEC offers
• organizing and conducting summer Health Careers Camps; working collaboratively with groups and agencies to provide special programs and activities on health careers
• participating on committees to work with communities on Health Fairs
• assisting with coordination of exploring/shadowing health careers as available
• serving on the Evaluation Team in the secondary Healthcare Science Technology Education (HSTE) Program Industry Certification Process
• working with communities to identify other innovative ways to share information about health careers
• serving on various college, regional, and state advisory committees