It will start at Contra Costa College in LA-100 and branch out to various areas on campus, Grant Coordinator Nancy Rynd said.

“Health Services Day is an opportunity that the college offers to 150 WCCUSD high school Health Academy students from Pinole Valley High School, De Anza High School and Richmond High School,” Rynd said. These includenursing, health and human services, biotechnology, medical assisting, emergency medical technician (EMT), and certified nursing assistant (CNA) programs, she said.

As well as the educational presentations that will be offered, the culminating lecture will inform students about concurrent enrollment opportunities offered to high school seniors, Rynd said.

“We start to prepare them so that maybe in grades 10 and 12 they actually start their college career,” she said.

Nursing department Chairperson Cheri Etheredge has coordinated Health Services Day six times before, forwarding the opportunity to ninth and 10th graders to attend the college for a day and have the opportunity to see what kind of classes the college offers. “We want to get everything we can in the 20 minutes we have.”

The CNA program has a unique aspect to it that garnishes the setting, and emphasizes talking to current high school students.

“In working with some grants three years ago we started a program with the CNA program where we arrange for 15 high school kids to come to the college in the afternoon during their senior year and take the courses for the CNA program,” Rynd said.

The CNA presenters will consist of four students who completed the CNA program while in high school last December, Rynd said.

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