Washington

Choice Regional Health Network, Olympia, Washington

Centralia Community College, Centralia
Leader : Alicia K Wicks
CHOICE Regional Health Network in Olympia, WA
Approach

Educator Partner Profile

Program offered:
ICP/Bridge Programs
Professional-Technical Education Division
Centralia Community College, Centralia, WA
Ours is a small community college (approx. 3,000 students) in a relatively rural area. We include programs in vocational training (welding, diesel, civil engineering, nursing, medical office, criminal justice, etc.) and academic transfer (2 year degrees for those going for a bachelor's degree elsewhere).

Leader : Alicia K Wicks

Individualized Cert. Program Director
Alicia grew up in Washington State and has lived in various Pacific NW states as well as Africa, Europe, and India, among other countries. She has taught in college for 10 years and in elementary through high school 3 years (including in Africa). She also teaches about diversity on a regular basis and has a M.A.Ed in Minority Education (worked with migrant kids and lived in the camp one summer in Oregon). She has worked extensively with a diverse population as an attorney for the rent control board in San Francisco for 15 years, which included training of community groups and individuals.
She has worked extensively in the healthcare field at Centralia College and has achieved the following goals:
a. For 2 years she worked and has developed and taught Medical Law & Ethics as well as Records Confidentiality--HIPAA
b. For 7 years she has and continues to develop educational plans for ICP students in medical/clerical fields (billing, coding, transcription, records, ward clerk, admitting, etc.) and hands-on medical fields (patient aide, phlebotomist, pharmacy tech A, dental aide, medical lab assistant, surgical aide).
c. She works indirectly with 5 other community colleges and directly with 3 hospitals with advising and registering 22 of their employees in pre-LPN and pre-RN programs (for the last 8 months). In addition to the bilingual health care interpreter program which they are trying to develop on a regional basis at our college, and are looking into training bilingual community health workers through the same program.

Health Partner Profile

CHOICE Regional Health Network in Olympia, WA
The partner has paid for the basic trainers' training and are doing LIS&A testing. They will assist our Grantee in surveying and finding potential students for the training.

Approach

First the grantee is performing and interest survey to determine which students and which healthcare facilities might work with us. Next is to determine if we have qualified trainers and funding for them. If all of this is positive, we will begin curriculum revision, advertising, and advising of students. We are at the beginning stages of all of this work, still trying to determine who our medical partners and possible students could be.