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What is Health Careers Day? It is opportunity for your community to receive $1,000 to create a Health Careers Day event! This is an offer to award $1,000 to seven communities in northeast Oregon for the purpose of creating Health Careers Day events or experiences. The same level of funds may be applied for to create a longer health careers focus in the 2008-2009 school year. Why are we making this
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In February, 1996,
a group of teachers, parents, youth agency
representatives and one very dedicated youth, told us our
top five work areas for health careers education
need to:
1) provide health career
information at an elementary or middle school level.
2) provide role models/mentors
from the health care business community.
3) assure hands-on student
health career education activities.
4) give youth out-of-class
experiences in health career education.
5) create health career
education networks with the community.
In response to those five work areas, we make Health
Careers Day awards each spring. The $1,000 awards
are made to groups in northeast Oregon counties to create
a Health Careers Day experience sometime the following
fall. The awards are competitive as only seven
awards will be made in a 12 county region.
The $1,000 funding can be used for Health Careers Day
planning, teacher release time, creation of experiences
for students, and feeding students, parents, and/or
teachers on that Health Careers Day, etc. The funds
may be used for whatever is needed to create a quality
health career education experience for youth in your
community.
How
to apply?
Any public organization, which normally works with youth,
can apply for funding as long as they provide letters of
participation from at least two other entities in their
community and/or county. PREFERENCE will be given
to those who cover a broad geographic area with their
application. Funding is for one community per county
unless the community is over 9,000 in population or the
next closest community in the county is at least one hour
drive away. Think creatively, you can even work
with your local Farm Bureau and/or Extension Office!
Please press the "request for proposals" option
below to begin the application process
Request for proposals
application forms
