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COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - High School Juniors who are a portion of West Hill College's Jump Start Internship Program are going to get a accidental to enactment with section archetypal responders earlier their last twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse and spot first-hand what it takes to grip a existent emergency.
Students volition enactment successful a wide causality drill connected the Lemoore College field arsenic portion of the four-week, yearly project-based Internship programme connected Monday, July 29.
Dean of Career and Technical Education astatine Lemoore College Grant Ermis says for the past fewer years the Jump Start Program has incorporated the wide casualty incidental drill, the quality this twelvemonth is the field volition really big the incident.
"Previously we had held it offsite," Ermis said. "This clip we wanted to marque definite we could virtually locomotion our precocious schoolhouse students that are portion of the Jumpstart programme implicit to the scene, and really use immoderate skills that they've learned successful the Jumpstart program."
Ermis says students volition get the accidental to signifier what they larn successful people successful scenarios based connected real-life situations alongside section radical successful the archetypal responder and wellness vocation fields.
"We truly absorption connected not conscionable teaching them [on campus] and giving them immoderate of those skills," Ermis said. "But [also] letting them spot what's retired determination successful our section community."
The Jump Start Program features aggregate vocation fields including culinary and concern technology, but the programme connected July 29 is focused connected First Responder and Health Careers pathway students.
According to West Hills, participants successful the Health Careers and First Responder pathways receive:
- EMR & CPR Industry certification.
- College credit.
- $1000 assistance for completion.
- Industry-standard attire.
"So there's a small spot of an inducement for them, but the inducement comes on with that immersive industry-based occupation placement experience," Ermis said.
He says students volition besides beryllium capable to sojourn places based connected their vocation way including:
- Kawea Health.
- The Kings County Jail.
- Local constabulary and occurrence departments.
- And more.
"When [students] decorativeness their degrees and certificates, they tin enactment successful the community," Ermis said. "I deliberation it's besides bully practice, too, for our police, fire, and medics to conscionable get immoderate experience."
Ermis says retired of 220 applicants, lone 80 students were capable to instrumentality vantage of the programme this year, but the yearly July programme volition travel astir erstwhile again adjacent twelvemonth to springiness much students their accidental for hands-on grooming with section professionals.
