Title: Workforce Planning Developing Your Future Workforce Through Youth Mentoring
1Workforce PlanningDeveloping Your Future
Workforce Through Youth Mentoring
- Cedars-Sinai is Leading the Quest for Health. As
part of our mission, we are committed to teaching
and educating our youth. We do this by
participating and/or hosting programs which
promote health careers. - Health Careers Academy
- Mentoring Program
- Stand and Deliver
- Career Days
- Nursing Luncheon for H.S. Students
- Outreach Programs Cedars-Sinai Next Generation
- Health Occupation Students of America ( HOSA)
2Goals for Today
- Guidelines on how to develop and manage youth and
mentoring programs - Introduction to Youth Mentoring in a Health Care
Setting - Creating Partnerships for Expansion
3Thinking Outside the Box
- Healthcare shortage
- Growing our own
- Exposure to the communities we serve
4Health Careers Academy
- Goal To Provide an Educational Opportunity and
Paid Work Experience in a Healthcare Setting That
Serves to Actively Recruit Racial Minorities Into
Nursing and Healthcare Careers. - Established in 1993 As Response to the Los
Angeles Riots and Targeted Toward Youth
Employment of at Risk High School Students. - Program is based on the 1993 School to Careers
model with three core components - School Based Training
- Work Based Training
- Mentoring
5Health Careers Academy
- Partnership with a nearby high school in the Los
Angeles Unified School District (Fairfax High
School) which is also Cedars-Sinai adopted high
school. Students take public transportation in
order to meet their work assignments. - 25 high school juniors are selected by an
interview process each year to participate with
continuing seniors in the two year program
earning 5 credits each semester. This program is
a class under the ROP section of the Los Angeles
Unified School District and takes place during
5th and/or 6th period. - Introduces career exploration for students who
are interested in nursing and other healthcare
careers. - Academy provides basic job skills, work ethics
and practical work experience through all
components of program. - Administered in Human Resources- Recruitment and
Workforce Planning.
6Health Careers Academy
- School Based Training
- Taught onsite by a LA Unified School District
Teacher. In classes, students learn basic job
skills and earn high school credits. - Nursing Institute provides an educator who is
specifically designated to work with a cohort of
Health Careers Academy students. - Focused career counseling for cohort of students
interested in BSN or Career Ladder programs. 2nd
semester program.
7Health Careers Academy
- Work Based Training
- Departments must complete a contract that must
include who will be primary supervisor, student
duties, educational opportunities provided,
coordination of monthly job shadows and mandatory
supervisor training. - Takes place onsite, four days a week. Students
are paid a minimum wage salary and are assigned
to areas they are interested in and are exposed
to careers within their departments.
8Health Careers Academy
- Mentoring
- Career Focused
- Emphasis on mini city career choices
- Cedars-Sinai employees volunteer to mentor during
students participation in the program. - Alumni of the program participate to pass on
their experience.
9Creating an Environment for High School Students
- Buy In from Medical Center Mission, Values,
Culture - Housewide Advertisement Program Design,
Partnerships, etc.Checks and Balances
EvaluationOutcomes Student Hires, College
Admission, Career Decisions
10Why Mentors?
- The Stand Deliver Mentoring Component provides
one-on-one relationships between students and
employees of the Medical Center. It is strongly
believed that the mentoring process plays a key
role in the efforts to identify, recruit, and
retain highly skilled and motivated individuals
in the health care workforce. -
- The program enables employers to become involved
with students at a pivotal point in a young
persons life. The development of a bond of
mutual respect and consideration sets the
foundation to enable the mentor/mentee pair to
explore interests and options to eventually set
realistic academic and career goals. -
- In addition, mentors are able to provide students
with the opportunity to learn how the knowledge,
skills and abilities developed in school
realistically relate to the work of work. Given
the clear need to focus on the future, student
mentoring is a vital link in helping ensure that
the students of today become the successful
students of tomorrow, providing the mentor with
an opportunity to make a difference in a young
persons life.
11 Mentoring Styles
- Team Mentoring
- Several mentors are assigned to a group of
mentees taking place in a central location. For
busy mentors this Buddy System can assure that
if one has to miss a session, another can fill
in. - Team mentoring can offer
- Sociability
- Flexibility
- Built-In Support
-
12Mentoring Styles
- One-On-One Mentoring
- Traditional mentoring pairs one person with
another. The ability to bond between the mentor
and mentee is consistent. Spending time with
just one person can help set specific goals based
on their own interests. - Example Big Brother/Big Sisters of America
- One-on-One programs include
- Intensive Screening
- Family First
- Ongoing Support
13Mentoring Styles
- School-Based Mentoring
- All meetings and activities take place at the
mentees school. The school pairs with the
company or organization that provides the
mentors. Activities are usually geared toward
academics but older students can work on
academics. - School-Based Mentoring is characterized by
- Built-In Activities
- Support
- Structure
-
14Mentoring Styles
- Workplace Mentoring
- Activities and goals depend on the type of
business and employees interest. Employees gain
release time to mentoring activities. The focus
is often on developing technical skills or
understanding the workings of the business - Workplace Mentoring
- Unique Resources
- Real-World Exposure
- Convenience
- Company Morale
-
15Mentoring Styles
- Workplace Mentoring
- Skills Enhancement
- Job-specific skills and social and personal
skills - Social Networking and Advocacy
- Recommending youth to potential employers
- Helping youth to resist negative influences
- Enhanced Self-Concept
- Mentors positive appraisal
16Mentoring Styles
- E-Mentoring
- On-line mentoring or e-mentoring, is a mentoring
relationship conducted via the Internet. E-mail
can be the exclusive vehicle for young people and
mentors to connect or it can be additional
communication tool for those who ordinarily meet
in person. Still shares the goal of establishing
a trusting, nurturing positive relationship.
17Mentoring Resources
- Mentoring www.mentoring.org
- National Mentoring Center www.nwre.org/mentoring
- Americas Promise
- Who Mentored You?www.hasph.harvard.edu
- Mentoring.ca.gov
- Article Relationships in a Career Mentoring
Program Lessons from the Hospital Youth
Mentoring Program by Wendy McClanhan
18City of Los AngelesStand and Deliver
- Stand Deliver is a Presidents High Growth,
High Wage Training Initiative funded by the
Department of Labor, Employment Training
Administration. - DOL designed strategic growth initiatives to
shift the public workforce system away from
participant-focused job training to industry
based programs where employers defined and
prioritized their human resource needs. The
public workforce system supplies a pipeline of
workers trained in the right skills and the
workers have access to high wage career ladder
jobs. - 277 applications were received and only one
project was funded in the State of California
Stand Deliver.
19Stand and Deliver
- Stand Deliver was a project of the Presidents
High Growth Initiative which targets
disadvantaged minority youth (18-24 years old)
for the purpose of meeting the pipeline
challenges of increasing the available skilled
labor pool Attracting diverse populations to
the high wage, high growth industries, beginning
with health care. - The program was modeled after our Health Careers
Academy which included our Program In A Box
Mentoring Kit produced by Johns Hopkins,
Cedars-Sinai and 13 other hospitals that were
awarded grant funded to establish mentoring
programs in healthcare. Participants were
provided monthly training on how to duplicate
sections of the Academy model. - www.standanddeliver-la.com.
20Partnerships within Organization
- In conjunction with the Institute for
Professional Nursing Development, Work/Life
Matters and Community Health Education the
following events are sponsored - Career Days Fairs - Educators request one day
educational programs for students. Schools who
have participated include Montebello, Burbank,
Burroughs, Beverly Hills and Fairfax High School
AVID program. - Nursing Career Luncheon for High School Students
held annually during Nurses Week. - Cedars-Sinai The Next Generation, a health care
careers event targeted toward high school age
children of employees.
21State Partnerships
- The California Department of Education and the
California Labor Workforce Development Agency
held its first annual Health Science and Medical
Technology Educators Institute at Cedars-Sinai
June 2006. -
- The objective of the day was to expose adults to
the skills our future workforce will need to be
successful and incorporate into their career
pathway programs. - Over 100 educators from across the state were
selected to participate. -
- The day consisted of a panel of our colleagues
from various areas of the medical center, lunch
and rotations for the participants, which will
provide the participants with a unique
opportunity to experience hands-on what is needed
to pursue a successful career in healthcare. - State of California, Healthcare Pathways, Office
of Statewide Health Planning Development
www.oshpd.ca.gov/hwcdd - Health Workforce Development, HWDD Publications
and Reports - Health and Healthcare Pathway Newsletter, Vol.
1, Issue 4, November 2007
22Student Partnerships
- Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA)
- Student lead national professional organization
which promotes health careers, leadership and
critical thinking skills. Cedars-Sinai (So.
Cal) and John Muir (No. Cal) Health Systems were
selected to set up Industry Based Programs. For
more information on how to find or start a local
chapter go to www.hosa.org
23Over 50 of our students have graduated from high
school, enrolled in college and are pursing
careers in health care. Charter member of the
National Youth Mentoring Network which includes
Johns Hopkins, Duke University and Beth Israel in
New York.Graduates from the Academy have been
hired into the areas of Nursing, Imaging, EIS,
Grants and Funding, Marketing and have pursued
careers in Physical Therapy, Safety, Medical
Social Work, Psychology, Imaging, Nursing and
Human Resources.
24Win-Win
- Selected to participate on the California State
Plan for Career Technical Education Resource
Group providing input on the Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of
2006.HOSA Board Member Industry Representative - Stand and Deliver program recognized by the
Mayor as a model program. -