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

项目摘要/摘要 这一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，为我们的目的进行了重要的适应，在阿拉巴马州(AL)的农村。这种适应将被称为健康 阿拉巴马州科学与技术学院(HSTA-AL)。这个项目的长期目标是建立一个更多的 来自农村的多样化的护理、护士教师、护士科学家和其他生物医学专业劳动力， 服务不足，主要是非裔美国人，经济困难的高中生在AL谁会 成为他们家庭中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 内容和教学技巧。然后，教师将通过帮助学生学习STEM来引导他们走向STEM领域 开展公民科学。这些教师还可以将他们学到的技能转移到其他高中的教学中去 在校学生。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对 服务不足的AL社区。预计通过HSTA-AL活动，将建立健康素养 在这些农村县的学生和社区成员中。本项目的具体目标是：1. 在每个农村县建立由100%社区成员组成的社区领导领导小组 合作伙伴，以及由至少51%的社区成员组成的州联合领导团队，以促进 社区对HSTA-AL计划的所有权。2.为5名教师提供年度专业发展 以及每年在目标社区提供5名职前教师，以促进科学和 HSTA-AL和其他学生的研究技能，以增加农村高中毕业生的渠道 地区进入大学STEM教育，其中一些人会选择护理。3.每年提供夏令营 为50名学生提高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，近同行 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职业。4.为95所高中提供由老师带领的俱乐部体验 为期5年的学生，目的是让学生接触STEM领域的一般、护理和护理 通过让学生参与基于社区的参与性研究/公民科学解决问题来实现科学 与其所在社区的健康差距有关。5.比较HSTA-AL和HSTA的结果 已知的可预测生物医学领域劳动力发展的心理测量方法，以确定是否可以复制 在农村，主要是非裔美国人，经济上处于不利地位的人群中实施HSTA计划是可行的 而且很有效。如果HSTA-AL在西弗吉尼亚州实现了与HSTA类似的结果，我们计划扩大这一计划 并寻求资金支持HSTA-AL学生的大学和研究生教育。

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.