MONROE - For the 2011-12 school year, ten youth apprenticeship students completed the one-year Health Services Youth Apprenticeship program. They received Certificates of Occupational Proficiency from the 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 made it happen by devoting countless hours to instructing and mentoring the youth apprentices. The YA program is sponsored by the Green County Area School-To-Work Consortium. The program 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: Joseph Blumer, Albany High School; Kaylee Johnson, Albany High School; Chelsey Christianson, Brodhead High School; Alexis Flesher, Brodhead High School; Breanna Hycnar, Brodhead High School; Andrea Paffel, Brodhead High School; Lacey Prien, Brodhead High School; Megan Wiesenberg, Brodhead High School; Samantha Becherer, Monroe High School; Danielle Poppe, Monroe High School; Kailyn Rodebaugh, Monroe High School.
Christianson, Flesher, Paffel, Prien and Wiesenberg worked at Wood's Crossing in the nursing assistant specialty area. Their mentor was Marlene Stewart. Poppe worked at Pleasant View Nursing Home and New Glarus Nursing Home in the nursing assistant specialty area. Her mentors were Ginger Croft and Jane Phillipson. Becherer and Rodebaugh worked at Pleasant View Nursing Home in the nursing assistant specialty area with Croft as their mentor. Hycnar and Johnson worked in the Healthcare Foundations Specialty Area with mentors, Karen Porter, Sue Fox, Tiffany Emberson and Katie Wenger. Blume worked in the medical assistant specialty area at Monroe Clinic, with mentor supervisors John Chapman and Melissa Sargent.
The health services students completed the required courses for their specialty areas-skilled nursing assistant, advanced nursing assistant or medical terminology at Blackhawk Technical College, Monroe.
Clayton Spriggs, Brodhead High School, completed the first of two years of the Welding Level 2 Program. He is placed at Kuhn North America, Brodhead, and his work-based mentor is Dennis Carrothers. Jill Leitzen from Kuhn North America helped set up the placement for the work-based learning for Spriggs. His mentor for the class-based learning was Tim Ast, Brodhead High School welding instructor.
In the 2012-13 school year, Spriggs will return to finish his second year of the youth apprentice in welding, and eight new youth apprentices will begin working and studying for their certification, including one in banking basics-finance and seven in health.
Business partners, work site mentors, high school, college and industry instructors, and school districts personnel made it happen by devoting countless hours to instructing and mentoring the youth apprentices. The YA program is sponsored by the Green County Area School-To-Work Consortium. The program 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: Joseph Blumer, Albany High School; Kaylee Johnson, Albany High School; Chelsey Christianson, Brodhead High School; Alexis Flesher, Brodhead High School; Breanna Hycnar, Brodhead High School; Andrea Paffel, Brodhead High School; Lacey Prien, Brodhead High School; Megan Wiesenberg, Brodhead High School; Samantha Becherer, Monroe High School; Danielle Poppe, Monroe High School; Kailyn Rodebaugh, Monroe High School.
Christianson, Flesher, Paffel, Prien and Wiesenberg worked at Wood's Crossing in the nursing assistant specialty area. Their mentor was Marlene Stewart. Poppe worked at Pleasant View Nursing Home and New Glarus Nursing Home in the nursing assistant specialty area. Her mentors were Ginger Croft and Jane Phillipson. Becherer and Rodebaugh worked at Pleasant View Nursing Home in the nursing assistant specialty area with Croft as their mentor. Hycnar and Johnson worked in the Healthcare Foundations Specialty Area with mentors, Karen Porter, Sue Fox, Tiffany Emberson and Katie Wenger. Blume worked in the medical assistant specialty area at Monroe Clinic, with mentor supervisors John Chapman and Melissa Sargent.
The health services students completed the required courses for their specialty areas-skilled nursing assistant, advanced nursing assistant or medical terminology at Blackhawk Technical College, Monroe.
Clayton Spriggs, Brodhead High School, completed the first of two years of the Welding Level 2 Program. He is placed at Kuhn North America, Brodhead, and his work-based mentor is Dennis Carrothers. Jill Leitzen from Kuhn North America helped set up the placement for the work-based learning for Spriggs. His mentor for the class-based learning was Tim Ast, Brodhead High School welding instructor.
In the 2012-13 school year, Spriggs will return to finish his second year of the youth apprentice in welding, and eight new youth apprentices will begin working and studying for their certification, including one in banking basics-finance and seven in health.
