The Health Sciences & Technology Academy – Alabama (HSTA-AL)

项目概要/摘要 这个创新项目将复制西方成功的健康科学与技术学院， 弗吉尼亚州，在亚拉巴马（AL）的农村，对我们的目的进行了重要的调整。这种适应将被称为健康 阿拉巴马科学技术学院（HSTA-AL）。该项目的长期目标是建立一个更 来自农村的各种护理、护士教师、护士科学家和其他生物医学专业的劳动力， 服务不足，主要是非洲裔美国人，经济上处于不利地位的高中学生在AL谁将 成为家里第一个大学毕业的人这一目标将通过实施 HSTA-AL计划为教师提供专业发展，旨在帮助教师建立科学 内容和教学技能。然后，教师将引导学生走向STEM领域，帮助他们学会 开展公民科学。这些教师还可以将他们学到的技能用于教学其他高中。 学校学生。为了向教师和学生传授研究技能，我们将重点关注以下条件： 肥胖和相关的心血管疾病，危险行为和阿片类药物的使用， 服务不足的社区。预计通过卫生技术评估-卫生知识普及活动， 在这些乡村的学生和社区成员中。该项目的具体目标是1。 在每个农村县建立由100%社区成员组成的社区领导小组 合作伙伴，以及一个由至少51%的社区成员组成的国家联合领导团队，以促进 HSTA-AL计划的社区所有权。2.为5名教师提供年度专业发展 和5名副教师，每年在目标社区，以促进科学和 HSTA-AL和其他学生的研究技能，以增加来自农村的高中毕业生的管道 进入大学STEM教育领域，其中一些人将选择护理。3.每年举办夏令营 为50名学生，以促进参与公民科学解决问题所需的兴趣和技能 与农村AL的健康差距有关，并促进接触大学环境，近同龄人 导师，STEM教育，护士，护理教育机会，高级护理学位，护理 科学和其他生物医学专业。4.为95所高中提供一次由教师带领的俱乐部体验 学生跨越5年的目的，让学生接触一般，护理和护理的STEM领域 通过让学生参与以社区为基础的参与性研究/公民科学来解决问题 与他们所在社区的健康差距有关。5.比较HSTA-AL与HSTA的结果， 已知的心理测量方法可以预测生物医学领域的劳动力发展，以确定是否复制 在农村，主要是非洲裔美国人，经济弱势群体的HSTA计划是可行的 性和有效性如果HSTA-AL在西弗吉尼亚州取得了与HSTA类似的成果，我们计划扩大这一计划。 在AL和寻求资金，以支持HSTA-AL学生的大学和研究生院教育。

Project Summary/Abstract This innovative project will replicate the successful Health Sciences & Technology Academy from West Virginia, with important adaptations for our purposes, in rural Alabama (AL). This adaption will be called Health Sciences & Technology Academy-Alabama (HSTA-AL). The long-term goal of this project is to build a more diverse nursing, nurse faculty, nurse scientist and other biomedical professions workforce from among rural, underserved, primarily African American, economically disadvantaged high school students in AL who will become the first in their families to graduate from college. This goal will be accomplished by implementing the HSTA-AL program to provide professional development to teachers designed to help teachers build science content and pedagogical skills. Teachers will then guide students toward STEM fields by helping them learn to conduct citizen science. These teachers can also transfer their learned skills for use in teaching other high school students. To teach research skills to teachers and students, we will focus on conditions including obesity and related cardiovascular conditions, risk behaviors, and opioid use that disproportionately affect underserved AL communities. It is anticipated that through HSTA-AL activities, health literacy will be built among the students and community members in these rural counties. The specific aims for this project are to 1. Establish community led leadership teams comprised of 100% community members in each rural county partner, and a joint leadership team for the state comprised of at least 51% community members to promote community ownership of the HSTA-AL program. 2. Provide annual professional development for 5 teachers and 5 preservice teachers per year across targeted communities for the purpose of promoting science and research skills for HSTA-AL and other students to increase the pipeline of high school graduates from rural areas into university STEM education, some of whom will choose nursing. 3. Provide summer camps annually for 50 students to promote interest and skills needed for engagement in citizen science addressing issues related to health disparities in rural AL and to promote exposure to the university environment, near-peer mentors, STEM education, nurses, nursing education opportunities, advanced nursing degrees, nursing science, and other biomedical professions. 4. Provide a club experience led by teachers for 95 high school students across 5 years for the purpose of exposing students to STEM fields in general, nursing, and nursing science by engaging students in community-based participatory research /citizen science addressing issues related to health disparities in their communities. 5. Compare the outcomes of HSTA-AL to HSTA for psychometric measures known to predict workforce development in biomedical fields to determine if replication of the HSTA program in a rural, primarily African American, economically disadvantaged population is feasible and effective. If HSTA-AL achieves similar outcomes to HSTA in West Virginia, we plan to expand this program across AL and seek funding to support HSTA-AL students’ college and graduate school education.