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Greetings!
Welcome to our first Health Careers Newsletter! This quarterly offering will provide you with information and resources related to Health Careers. We look forward to your thoughts and feedback as we aim to provide you with a helpful and interesting newsletter! Each quarter you will find information geared towards Students, Parents, and Educators.
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EDUCATORS:
Health Careers in the North Country
| |  Presentations Galore!Our AHEC Program Coordinator works with students and teachers to foster interest in health careers by providing continuing support and "hands on" assistance directed at recruiting North County students into health career occupations.
Several middle and high schools have called, scheduled and received the free Health Career informational presentations for their students. Are you an educator for middle or high school who would like this opportunity for your students? Click here to send an email request.
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STUDENTS:
Career Corner - Focus on Health Care
| |  Environmental Health Advocate
Overview
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, the places we work, and the homes we live in - all aspects of our natural and man-made environment - have an impact on our health.
Our physical surroundings can give rise to a variety of diseases and health conditions, from individual cases of asthma or cancer to headline-making news, such as e coli in bags of spinach or lead in children's toys.
Making our world a little safer
Environmental health professionals work to improve public health by identifying, tracking and addressing environmental risk factors. They go by many titles, including environmental health practitioner, environmental health officer and public health officials. Most environmental health professionals specialize in a particular area, such as:
- Reducing air, water, soil, noise or radiation pollution
- Protecting our food supply
- Improving safety in schools, public areas and the workplace
- Ensuring safe living conditions in housing
- Promoting public health with a focus on environmental hazards.
Specific jobs for this career field in our area could be: Stats:
Salary range (approx): $45,000-$110,000
Years in School: 4-6 after high school graduation
Job Outlook: Very Good
Read on about Environmental Health Professionals and many more health career options at ExploreHealthCareers.org.
Reprinted courtesy of ExploreHealthCareers.org, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, NJ, and
administered by the American Dental Education Association, 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005. www.adea.org, 202-
289-7201.
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PARENTS:
Financing an education in Health Care
| |  Are You Credit Ready and Credit Worthy?As you support your child's interest in a health sciences career, questions about how to pay for a health sciences education may not be far behind. In considering your options to pay for school (and there are many), you may also want to consider not only the impact your credit may have on your ability to get student loans, but also on how repaying student loans in a timely way can positively impact your credit and your credit score. The latter can have a tremendous impact on your ability to secure financing to help start a practice or buy into an established practice after they graduate, not to mention your student's ability to get a mortgage, buy that new car they may need, and even get car insurance. Consider the following as you think about how your credit can impact your health sciences career: Credit Ready and Credit Worthy First, Federal Stafford Loans (one of the main loan programs many health sciences students use to help pay for school) are not based on credit. However, for some students, Stafford Loans may not be enough. Therefore, there are two terms you should be familiar with:
Credit Ready means you have no credit history or your credit history has no adverse items such as 30 and 60 day late payments. - Federal Grad PLUS Loans are based, in part, on a borrower being Credit Ready.
Credit Worthy means your lender is going to dig deeper into your credit history, perhaps looking for a minimum credit score and a debt-to-income (DTI) ratio that indicates your current income is enough to sustain loan payments. - Private loans, including some private loans designed specifically for health sciences students, are based on your being Credit Worthy. SPECIAL NOTE: Remember to always exhaust your eligibility for federal loan programs before applying for a private loan.
A lender making private loans may use a combination of credit ready and credit worthy requirements when determining not only your eligibility for a private loan, but also the interest rate for the loan and any origination or other fees you may be charged. For the rest of this article click here.
Courtesy of ExploreHealthCareers.org
Additional financial resources, including scholarships, are available. Start your search by meeting with the school Guidance Counselor and check out the links on the left.
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CHECK THIS OUT!
Youth Health Service Corps (YHSC)
| |  The Youth Health Service Corps (YHSC) is a health careers recruitment program that engages diverse high school students as leaders in meaningful community service learning that addresses community health issues. Student volunteers are trained using a six module curriculum that prepares them to serve in health care settings that serve the underserved. Once prepared, students choose independent service or group service learning projects to complete a minimum of fifty hours of service for completion of the program. Profile High School, Littleton High School, and Berlin High School all have active YHSC members! If you are an educator interested in starting a YHSC group in your high school, please click here to request more information. Are you an interested student? See your Guidance Counselor (and forward them this newsletter!)
Stay tuned...we'll have pictures and many exciting activities to report in the Spring Health Careers Newsletter!
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We invite items for the newsletter from our readers that relate to health careers, training, and opportunities. Send items to Francine Morgan, AHEC Program Coordinator, at fmorgan@nchcnh.org.
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This newsletter is a project of the Northern NH Area Health Education Center, a program of the North Country Health Consortium (NCHC). NCHC is a rural health network improving the health of North Country residents through innovative collaboration. Working together with businesses and other community organizations, the health and human service provider members of the Consortium are building a regional health care system to address the needs of Northern New Hampshire.
"North Country Health Consortium leads innovative
collaboration to improve the health status of the region."
This newsletter is supported in part by funds from
The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
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