1. Workforce Planning Developing 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)

2. Goals 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

3. “Thinking Outside the Box”
Healthcare shortage
Growing our own
Exposure to the communities we serve

4. Health 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

5. Health 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.

6. Health 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.

7. Health 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.

8. Health Careers Academy
Mentoring
Career Focused
Emphasis on “mini city” career choices
Cedars-Sinai employees volunteer to mentor during student’s participation in the program.
Alumni of the program participate to “pass on” their experience.

9. Creating an Environment for High School Students
Buy In from Medical Center Mission, Values, Culture
Housewide Advertisement Program Design, Partnerships, etc. Checks and Balances Evaluation Outcomes Student Hires, College Admission, Career Decisions

10. Why 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 person’s 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

12. Mentoring 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

13. Mentoring Styles School-Based Mentoring
All meetings and activities take place at the mentee’s 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

14. Mentoring 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
Unique Resources
Real-World Exposure
Convenience
Company Morale

15. Mentoring 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
Mentor’s positive appraisal

16. Mentoring Styles E-Mentoring
On-line mentoring or e-mentoring, is a mentoring relationship conducted via the Internet. 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.

17. Mentoring Resources Mentoring www.mentoring.org
National Mentoring Center
America’s Promise
Who Mentored You?
Mentoring.ca.gov
Article: Relationships in a Career Mentoring Program: Lessons from the Hospital Youth Mentoring Program by Wendy McClanhan

18. City of Los Angeles Stand and Deliver
Stand & Deliver is a President’s 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.

19. Stand and Deliver www.standanddeliver-la.com.
Stand & Deliver was a project of the President’s 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.

20. Partnerships 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.

21. State Partnerships
The California Department of Education and the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency held it’s 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
Health Workforce Development, HWDD Publications and Reports
Health and Healthcare Pathway Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 4, November 2007

22. Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA)
Student 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 :

23. “The Win-Win”
Over 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.

24. “Win-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 HOSA Board Member Industry Representative
Stand and Deliver program recognized by the Mayor as a model program.