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Pathways to Health Careers

The Pathways to Health Careers Fellowship supports after-school programs to make improvements in their health career development practices and to help at-risk youth become "health career" ready. The goal of the Fellowship is to address the gap between academics and career experience by supporting the development of research-based career exploration programming in the Pittsburgh region. Fellowship participants will gain knowledge and application of best practices in career development and continuous process improvement and document learning, implementation, outputs and outcomes of these practices. The Fellowship provides program assessment, evaluation, and most importantly, dissemination of best practices.

Fellows (community-based organizations) are selected in a competitive proposal process. Selection criteria include quality of application, ability of the agency to demonstrate organizational excellence and efficiency, and an agency's readiness to show significant programming progress when utilizing the skills the Fellowship will provide. Each Fellowship organization receives funding for staff time and resources allocated towards participation.

Selected programs provide:

• Participation of two (2) program staff (program director and manager/coordinator);
• Participation of program staff in four (4) half-day training seminars;
• Participation of Executive Director in quarterly work sessions;
• Participation of program staff in ten (10) monthly 4-hour sessions;
• Implementation of customized career development project by program staff;
• Participation of 25 - 30, 7th - 9th grade students in career development project; and
• Participation of organization in assessment and evaluation protocols.

The 2009-2010 Fellowship RFP will be distributed summer, 2009. If you are interested in participating in the next Fellowship, please contact Paul Leger at 412.594.2584 or leger@jhf.org

The Fellowship is funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the United Way of Allegheny County.