The Red Cross Health and Wellness Club helped with the biannual SMA Blood Drive recently. Many students, staff & faculty, parents, and community members donated.
Students ran the registration table
And the canteen to help replenish after giving
Many gave….
Hopefully many will receive.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. In preparation for an annual Red Cross Health & Wellness Club fundraiser our students have been busy sewing lots of pink ties. Any student may purchase and wear a pink tie for the entire month of October. The money is donated to the breast imaging center at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance and brings awareness to a disease that affects 1 in 8 women.
Copyright © 2015. National Breast Cancer Foundation
So far they have made 61 ties total. Great job girls!
Health Careers Path Updates
This year we welcomed 21 new freshman into the Health Careers program. Recently these Blue Ties ’20 learned how to properly handle, put on, and take off latex gloves in order to keep them sterile in the Intro to Health Careers class.
Red Ties ’19 visited Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, Torrance every month last year to learn about health careers with a professional healthcare worker speaking about their job and training and giving a tour of the department. This year, as sophomores, they will “shadow” a health care worker as the employee performs his or her job.
Blue Ties graduates ’16 in front of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles- The Healthy Ties Program matches 3-4 students with a CHLA staff mentor. The students learn about the hospital, health careers, and pediatric disease through three workshops and a research project (poster presentation, paper, and pamphlet). The Green Ties ’17 will attend the first workshop at CHLA next Friday, 10/7/16.
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