Train 16 Minority Youth in Health Careers in DC

Dear Future Health Professional Supporter,

Thank you for your continued support of the Teen Health Promoters Program at the Latin American Youth Center. With your help, 14 aspiring health professionals have learned about a variety of health topics, gained clinical skills, and are interning at area clinics and hospitals. Your donations have helped pay for TB testing, required to work in a health setting, and transportation to and from the internship sites.

Of the 14 youth in the program, seven are placed at The George Washington University (GWU) Hospital where they have supported the Emergency Room, physical therapy, and cardiology units and have frequently served as patient interpreters (Spanish). The photographs in this update are from the hospital's skills lab, where the youth reviewed protocols for administering CPR, taking vital signs, and drawing and transfusing blood.

In a few weeks, the program will end for the 2013-2014 school year. We want to thank you for believing in this group of youth and investing in their future. It has truly been a great year. Thanks to you and our clinic and hospital partners, we have provided youth a hands-on opportunity to explore a health career while learning how to keep themselves and their peers healthy.

Some of the participants are graduating high school and will go on to college; others will surely come back in the fall for another year of health careers exploration. We hope you will support the program then too.

Thanks again for your support this year!

The Teen Health Promoters Class of 2014