Health Sciences Technology Academy HSTA a WV Brain

Health Sciences & Technology Academy: HSTA a WV Brain Gain Brainchild West Virginia University October 7, 2019 Ann Chester, Ph. D. Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Education Partnerships Director, WV HSTA

Since 1994 HSTA has helped improve WV health care as it trains an important and growing workforce.

Structure and Flow Summer Camp 9 th Graders Summer Camp 10 th Graders Summer Camp 11 th Graders Summer Camp 12 th Graders 9 th -12 th grade afterschool clubs led by teachers College Science Projects Annual Symposium Community Service

• 37% African American • 46% Financially disadvantaged • 68% First in their families to go to college • 69% Female • 75% Rural • 9 th-12 th Graders

College Attendance Rate 99% 70% 57% HSTA Nation WV

Graduation Rates (6 years) WV Low Income WV Average Nation HSTA 0 20 40 60 Percent 80 100

Lindsay Mc. Intosh JD, General Counsel Kanawha County Board of Education Summer Kuhn, MPH HSTA Community Research Leader Natalie Fraley, DVM Owner, Middletown Animal Clinic Andrew Mc. David Co-owner, A&M Properties & Investments Jason Evans, Ph. D. Professor in Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine, WVU Stephanie Tyree JD Executive Director, WV Community Development Hub

Health Care Infusion that Stays in Rural WV • Kelsie Cromwell, front desk in 2012, returned to school graduated as a lab technician. • Sierra Miller, PT assistant • Carrie Durham, Nurse • Katie Atkins, Radiology Tech • Candy Cochran, Nurse now works for Sr. Citizens Center behind the hospital • Sara Barbe, RN • Stephanie Hall, Nurse, works there on holidays. She is in med school. • Crystal Hickman, MD, local physician Webster Memorial Hospital Photos taken Spring 2012 "Personally, it is such a HUGE comfort to our family to know that our best and brightest are there to care for us. I have experienced it many times with what are often life and death moments with XXX. "

Improving lifestyles in communities as 9 th -12 th graders • Improving BMI • Improving Cholesterol • Increasing activity levels • Increasing awareness of flu shots, vaping, opioid crisis, bullying, water quality problems. Markayla King, Minden, WV PCB’s

Economic Gain • $30, 000 more per year is the earning power of a HSTA grad than their highest earning parent 77 Med and pre-med 32 Medical assistants 13 Dentistry 301 Nursing 44 Pharmacy 101 Rehab 156 Patient care 22 Public and community health 36 Health Care Administration 175 Mental Health 34 Radiology and related 38 Speech Path and Audiology 177 Biomedical Science – research and pre-health care majors • 238 STEM • • • •

Let’s revive the American Dream using this HSTA model across every county in West Virginia.