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Sinai Hospital's VSP has been providing vocational services and employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities in the Baltimore metropolitan area for over 35 years. VSP has recently received numerous grant funding awards.
The United Way of Central Maryland has re-funded the Youth Achieving Potential program, an in-school transition service for high school students from Northwestern and W.E.B. DuBois high schools. This program provides career assessment, paid internships and job/education placement services. During the 2008-2009 academic year, VSP's YAP initiative provided transitioning services to 40 exiting seniors with special needs from Baltimore City Public High Schools.
The Baltimore City's Mayor's Office of Employment Development has provided funding to provide training and job placement services in Patient Transportation, Environmental Services, and Food and Nutrition Services to 24 qualified trainees over the next 12 months, starting in November 2009. Eligible participants would be referred from the City's One Stop Career Centers and are either dislocated, unemployed, or low-income workers. That office's Youth Opportunity department also has provided funding for an eighth year to VSP to serve out-of-school youth with LifeBridge Health-paid internships and job placement services.
- Lincoln County Set To Lose Four School Nurses If Alternate Funding Or New Partnerships Are Not Found
UPDATE, Aug. 11: The school board made up part of the health department's budget cut, allowing it to keep seven nurses, "but not before a lengthy discussion which included talk of salary cuts and new pay scales for nurses," The Interior Journal reports....
- Kentucky Gets An $8.1 Million Federal Grant To Help Teachers, Other School Personnel Recognize Students' Mental-health Needs
The Kentucky Department of Education has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million federal grant to teach school personnel how to identify mental-health issues and get students the help they need, Brenna R. Kelly reports for Kentucky Teacher. KDE was one...
- Sinai-er Offers Rapid Hiv Testing
Sinai Hospital?s Rapid HIV program is helping more Baltimore citizens learn their status. The program, which allows those in Sinai ER-7 to have a quick free test to learn whether they are HIV positive, recently received funding to continue for another...
- Lifebridge Health Wins Award For Workforce Development
One of the many benefits of working at LifeBridge Health is the ability to take advantage of workforce development programs. In addition to tuition assistance, LifeBridge Health employees have access to basic math and reading/writing courses, plus career...
- Nurses Honored By Dunkin' Donuts
The Greater Baltimore area Dunkin' Donuts' ?Thanks to You? heroes program salutes a different group of local heroes each month by offering them a free medium coffee every Tuesday. This month, it's nurses who are being honored. Any Tuesday...
Health News
VSP Receives Funding Awards
Sinai Hospital's VSP has been providing vocational services and employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities in the Baltimore metropolitan area for over 35 years. VSP has recently received numerous grant funding awards.
The United Way of Central Maryland has re-funded the Youth Achieving Potential program, an in-school transition service for high school students from Northwestern and W.E.B. DuBois high schools. This program provides career assessment, paid internships and job/education placement services. During the 2008-2009 academic year, VSP's YAP initiative provided transitioning services to 40 exiting seniors with special needs from Baltimore City Public High Schools.
The Baltimore City's Mayor's Office of Employment Development has provided funding to provide training and job placement services in Patient Transportation, Environmental Services, and Food and Nutrition Services to 24 qualified trainees over the next 12 months, starting in November 2009. Eligible participants would be referred from the City's One Stop Career Centers and are either dislocated, unemployed, or low-income workers. That office's Youth Opportunity department also has provided funding for an eighth year to VSP to serve out-of-school youth with LifeBridge Health-paid internships and job placement services.
- Lincoln County Set To Lose Four School Nurses If Alternate Funding Or New Partnerships Are Not Found
UPDATE, Aug. 11: The school board made up part of the health department's budget cut, allowing it to keep seven nurses, "but not before a lengthy discussion which included talk of salary cuts and new pay scales for nurses," The Interior Journal reports....
- Kentucky Gets An $8.1 Million Federal Grant To Help Teachers, Other School Personnel Recognize Students' Mental-health Needs
The Kentucky Department of Education has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million federal grant to teach school personnel how to identify mental-health issues and get students the help they need, Brenna R. Kelly reports for Kentucky Teacher. KDE was one...
- Sinai-er Offers Rapid Hiv Testing
Sinai Hospital?s Rapid HIV program is helping more Baltimore citizens learn their status. The program, which allows those in Sinai ER-7 to have a quick free test to learn whether they are HIV positive, recently received funding to continue for another...
- Lifebridge Health Wins Award For Workforce Development
One of the many benefits of working at LifeBridge Health is the ability to take advantage of workforce development programs. In addition to tuition assistance, LifeBridge Health employees have access to basic math and reading/writing courses, plus career...
- Nurses Honored By Dunkin' Donuts
The Greater Baltimore area Dunkin' Donuts' ?Thanks to You? heroes program salutes a different group of local heroes each month by offering them a free medium coffee every Tuesday. This month, it's nurses who are being honored. Any Tuesday...