Joe Gutierrez Office of Strategic Communication (909) 537-5007 joeg@csusb.edu
More than 600 high school students from throughout inland Southern California came to Cal State San Bernardino to learn about health careers at the 2019 Health Professions Conference recently. The conference on March 26, offered by the Inland Health Professions Coalition, a program of Reach Out, gave the high schoolers the opportunity to learn about health careers through keynote speakers and interactive workshops held at the College of Education building. Some of the workshop topics included: Careers in Anesthesiology; Future Physician Leaders; Nurses: Trusted to Care; So You are a Skin Doctor?; Working Together for Wellness; Steps Needed to Get Into Medical School and Beyond; Careers in Dentistry; Mental Health: Behind the Scenes; Podiatric Medicine: The Best Kept Secret in Medicine!; Careers in Birth Work; Preventing Disease Through Education; Prescription for Success; and Wanna Be A Surgeon? The Inland Health Professions Coalition (IHPC), an initiative of Reach-Out, was established in March 2007 to connect the Health Careers stakeholders in the Riverside, San Bernardino, Pomona Valley and Innovation Valley (in Southwest Riverside County) regions. Members of the IHPC include K-12, community college and university faculty, hospital and health care agency representatives, county office of education staff, and interested representatives from professional organizations and community agencies that work to address the growing need for health care workers in the Inland Empire. The work is done by developing goals and objectives that directly support health pathway programs in the junior high and high schools throughout Inland Southern California. Reach Out is a nonprofit organization dedicated to embracing communities to strengthen the human bonds that enable all community members to grow, thrive and lead. Since 1969, Reach Out has provided equal access to networks of support, quality education, career options and opportunities to develop skills to succeed.