Health Careers Pipeline Program
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Undergraduate mentors
Are you a WMU or GVSU student interested in becoming a HCPP mentor? Activities in the program are meant to foster personal growth, college readiness and leadership characteristics.
Program Overview
The Health Careers Pipeline Program is directed at high school students from underrepresented and minority populations, with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of highly qualified health and human service professionals from those groups.
HCPP is a seven week mentorship program, centered on health career exploration, college readiness and leadership development, for underrepresented and minority ninth and tenth grade high school students from urban and rural communities in the West-Michigan region. Each cohort will include high school students from underserved rural and urban school and undergraduate mentors from health and human service programs at WMU and Grand Valley State University.
Students and mentors will meet for 90 minutes, weekly for nine weeks. Meetings will cover a variety of topics meant to introduce health careers to students, while allowing college mentors to discuss their own experiences as students working toward those careers.
The program will primarily utilize a virtual format, with only two in-person meetings.
Tentative 2024 Schedule
All sessions are on Monday evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., and include a healthcare-related topic as well as the presentation of a leadership characteristic.
Contact Jayme Martin with questions via email or by calling (989) 774-3007.
Virtual meetings
- January 22 and 29
- February 12 and 19
- March 4, 11 and 18
In-person meetings
- February 5 and 26
Multi-organization collaboration
Programming presented through collaboration and partnership with:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Corewell Health
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
The WMU College of Health and Human Services
Western Regional Community Consortium/Area Health Education Centers
HCPP Mission and Vision
The Health Careers Pipeline Program will empower West Michigan area high school students with opportunities to pursue careers in the health and human service professions through exposure to health career options, health and wellness education, and a relationship with a WMU student mentor.
Students participate in hands-on experiences that are engaging and enriching and that foster personal growth and leadership qualities.
The HCPP will help students develop confidence and a support system for their journey into post-secondary education and beyond.
Apply to participate
Undergraduate mentors
Are you a WMU or GVSU student interested in becoming a HCPP mentor? Activities in the program are meant to foster personal growth, college readiness and leadership characteristics.