Huckleberry Wellness Academy - San Francisco builds on HYP’s extensive experience training Peer Health Educators. The Huckleberry Wellness Academy - San Francisco is an intensive three-year health career pipeline program that fosters interest and engagement in health-related professions. It is primarily funded by a workforce development grant from San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth, and their Families. In its first year, the Academy recruited 17 high school juniors identified by their schools as high-potential underachievers. All will be the first in their families to graduate from college.
Program components include training in health education, internship placements in health care settings, academic preparation and tutoring, peer group support, exposure to health professions, case management, and assistance with college applications. Youth will continue in the program during their senior year and throughout their first year of post-secondary education. During the '08-'09 school year, staff recruited an additional group of incoming juniors, while supporting the seniors to obtain health-related employment and gain acceptance into college or other post-secondary education.
For more information on the Wellness Academy - San Francisco, please contact Vicky Valentine, Director, Huckleberry Wellness Academy - San Francisco at 415.386.9398 or at vvalentine@huckleberryyouth.org
To apply for the Wellness Academy - San Francisco, please download this application and mail, fax or email it to Mónica Vargas or Molly Hongola @ Huckleberry's Cole Street Clinic at 555 Cole Street, SF, CA 94117 - Fax: 415-386-8212
Email: mhongola@huckleberryyouth.org / mvargas@huckleberryyouth.org
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Huckleberry Wellness Academy - Marin students during a college day tour at Stanford University, April 2009.
Launched in September 2008 with the help of a two-year grant of $306,000 from The California Endowment, the Huckleberry Wellness Academy - Marin primarily serves Latino youth from San Rafael High School. The students participating in the Huckleberry Wellness Academy - Marin are recruited as Freshman in high school and will continue in the program through their first year of post-secondary education. The model is strengthened through new and established partnerships and our collaboration includes the San Rafael City Schools, Marin Education Fund, and Marin County School to Career Partnership.
For more information on the Huckleberry Wellness Academy - Marin, please contact Lissette Flores, Director, Huckleberry Wellness Academy - Marin at 415.258.4944 or at lflores@huckleberryyouth.org
Huckleberry Youth Programs recently partnered with prominent leaders in the medical and educational fields to establish the Huckleberry Wellness Academy Advsiory Board.
The Board provides Huckleberry Wellness Academy staff with guidance, advice, and insight into effective ways to expance services and measure program success. The Board held its first annual meeting on Friday, May 8, 2009, at the UCSF Laurel Heights Campus. Click here for a complete list of Wellness Academy Advisory Board Members.
(Pictured above: Dr. Susan Obata (left), Medical Director, Community Health Programs for Youth (CHPY), and Huckleberry Wellness Academy student, Erendira Arreola, at the Huckleberry Wellness Advisory Board meeting on May 8, 2009.) |
