Health Career Training:

• The MNP’ s strategy to reduce the rate of youth unemployment in the county is to offer job training to its youth while exposing them to the various fields in health care.
  

•  Students are selected to rotate through areas such as:

o         Laboratory

o         Radiology

o         Cardiology/EKG

o         Dietary/nutrition

o         Women's urgent care unit,

o         Interpreter/translations service

o         Administration

• The students receive bus passes and minimum wage stipend for their training.

• The health career training allows youth to develop good work ethics and to provide them with valuable skills to enter the work force.

Health Education:

•  The MNP's strategy is the use of providing health education sessions to students that address topics such as family planning, personal hygiene, conflict management, stress management, self-esteem, and nutrition. These sessions are used to help…

o         To reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy and low birth weight babies;

o         To make youth aware of good health practices; and

o         To promote safety in any environment

• Community Educators volunteer to go into classroom settings both @ the Highland Campus of the Alameda County Medical Center as well as middle school Science classes throughout the Oakland Unified School District

Mentoring Support:

• The MNP's strategy to reduce the rate of youth dropout is …

o         To recruit professionals from the health care industry, as well as in the business/corporate community, to serve as mentors who could provide guidance, nurturing and companionship to students.

• Through the relationships established between mentors and students, the students learn to recognize the importance of staying in school, as well as their potential to achieve.