MONROE - For the 2012-13 school year, four youth apprenticeship students completed the Health Services YA program and received certificates of Occupational Proficiency from the State of Wisconsin Division of Workforce Development for completing the required number of work hours and class instruction hours.
Business partners, work site mentors, high school, college and industry instructors, and school districts personnel instructed and mentored the youth apprentices. The youth apprenticeship program, sponsored by the Green County Area School-To-Work Consortium, is an elective program that joins academic and technical classroom instruction with mentored on-the-job learning for the students.
Graduates of the Level 1 Health Services YA program were: Kirsten Kauk, Albany High School; Kasie Knoll, Savana Peterson, Brodhead High School; and Brianna Thoman, Monroe High School. Knoll and Peterson worked at Wood's Crossing in the nursing assistant specialty area with mentor Marlene Stewart. Knoll worked at the Monroe Clinic hospital part of the year in the healthcare foundations specialty area with mentors Tiffany Emberson and Katie Wenger. Thoman worked in the medical assistant specialty area at Monroe Clinic with mentor supervisors Karen Porter and Terry Hixson. Kristina Mowers, human resources specialist at Monroe Clinic, is in charge of the YA program and sets up the mentors and job experiences for the students.
The health services students completed the required courses for their specialty areas including skilled nursing assistant, advanced nursing assistant, or medical terminology at Blackhawk Technical College in Monroe.
Cristina Mendoza, Brodhead High School, completed the Banking Basics-Finance YA program. She was placed at the Bank of Brodhead in Brodhead and her mentors were Gerri Shearer and Janice Schneider. Debra Malcook, from the Bank of Brodhead, helped set up the placement for the work-based learning for Mendoza
For the 2013-14 school year, there will be 11 new youth apprentices who will begin working and studying for their certification including two in the welding program, and nine in the health program.
Business partners, work site mentors, high school, college and industry instructors, and school districts personnel instructed and mentored the youth apprentices. The youth apprenticeship program, sponsored by the Green County Area School-To-Work Consortium, is an elective program that joins academic and technical classroom instruction with mentored on-the-job learning for the students.
Graduates of the Level 1 Health Services YA program were: Kirsten Kauk, Albany High School; Kasie Knoll, Savana Peterson, Brodhead High School; and Brianna Thoman, Monroe High School. Knoll and Peterson worked at Wood's Crossing in the nursing assistant specialty area with mentor Marlene Stewart. Knoll worked at the Monroe Clinic hospital part of the year in the healthcare foundations specialty area with mentors Tiffany Emberson and Katie Wenger. Thoman worked in the medical assistant specialty area at Monroe Clinic with mentor supervisors Karen Porter and Terry Hixson. Kristina Mowers, human resources specialist at Monroe Clinic, is in charge of the YA program and sets up the mentors and job experiences for the students.
The health services students completed the required courses for their specialty areas including skilled nursing assistant, advanced nursing assistant, or medical terminology at Blackhawk Technical College in Monroe.
Cristina Mendoza, Brodhead High School, completed the Banking Basics-Finance YA program. She was placed at the Bank of Brodhead in Brodhead and her mentors were Gerri Shearer and Janice Schneider. Debra Malcook, from the Bank of Brodhead, helped set up the placement for the work-based learning for Mendoza
For the 2013-14 school year, there will be 11 new youth apprentices who will begin working and studying for their certification including two in the welding program, and nine in the health program.
