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UAMS Pathways Academy Partners With Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas – UAMS News
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Members of Huge Brothers Huge Sisters of Central Arkansas and the UAMS Division for Variety, Fairness and Inclusion collect to rejoice their partnership.
| LITTLE ROCK — The College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Pathways Academy is partnering with Huge Brothers Huge Sisters of Central Arkansas (BBBSCA) on a mentorship initiative for this system’s college students.
Beneath the partnership, BBBSCA is offering classes throughout which Pathways college students will be taught the which means of mentorship and determine mentors in their very own lives. The classes will run by means of the 2022-23 tutorial 12 months.
“We’re very excited to get began with this mentorship service and watch because it helps change the lives of our students,” mentioned Shanea Nelson, Ph.D., govt director of Pathways Academy.
The partnership will profit Pathways individuals in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Sizzling Springs. One of many initiative’s targets is to match every scholar with a mentor.
“We’re actually enthusiastic about this partnership,” mentioned Brian Gittens, Ed.D., MPA, vice chancellor of the UAMS Division for Variety, Fairness and Inclusion. “Mentorship, together with tutorial preparation, are key elements to success of our youth. The BBBSCA is a pure associate to supply efficient mentorship for our Pathways students.”
“BBBSCA is proud to deliver our small-group mentoring companies to UAMS’ Pathways Academy,” mentioned Raymond Lengthy, chief govt officer of the nonprofit group. “We’re excited to play an element in diversifying the well being care workforce in Arkansas. This partnership aligns with my imaginative and prescient to indicate Central Arkansas that mentoring must be a foundational side of any youth growth program. We sit up for connecting Pathways students with group mentoring classes to bolster the crucial considering, problem-solving and management expertise they’ll achieve by collaborating on this revolutionary program.”
Pathways Academy is an academic and neighborhood engagement program centered on getting ready underrepresented and low-income Ok-12 college students for alternatives in science, expertise, engineering, arithmetic and well being sciences (STEM-H) disciplines. It goals to extend the variety of college students from these teams who pursue medical, well being or scientific careers.
“That is such a pure partnership — BBBSCA’s mentorship-training know-how paired with UAMS’ program-delivery experience, all to the advantage of constructing a various well being care workforce,” mentioned Wendy Ward, Ph.D., UAMS affiliate provost for tutorial affairs and the board president for BBBSCA.
UAMS is the state’s solely well being sciences college, with faculties of Medication, Nursing, Pharmacy, Well being Professions and Public Well being; a graduate faculty; a hospital; a fundamental campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide community of regional campuses; and 7 institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Most cancers Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Backbone & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Analysis Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Growing older, Translational Analysis Institute and Institute for Digital Well being & Innovation. UAMS contains UAMS Well being, a statewide well being system that encompasses all of UAMS’ scientific enterprise. UAMS is the one grownup Stage 1 trauma middle within the state. UAMS has 3,047 college students, 873 medical residents and fellows, and 6 dental residents. It’s the state’s largest public employer with greater than 11,000 staff, together with 1,200 physicians who present care to sufferers at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Youngsters’s, the VA Medical Middle and Baptist Well being. Go to www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Discover us on Fb, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.
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