High Sierra AHEC

High Sierra Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is deeply committed to providing equitable and comprehensive opportunities; engaging in outreach that exposes young people from groups underrepresented in the healthcare workforce to role models and mentors; further inspiring their pursuit and tangibility of a healthcare career.  Receiving national recognition and awards, their programs target first-generation, low-income, and rural students. Presently, High Sierra AHEC has varied programs with a focus towards this overarching goal at primary, secondary, and higher education levels:

●  CSI: The Science of Justice Camp and Health Care Heroes Camp focuses on primary school students in grades 5-8, providing hands-on learning experiences that expose them to various healthcare careers via a peer-to-peer mentorship teaching model.

●  Project Prevent and Project Reach Out and Revitalize Rural (ROARR) focus on providing foundational knowledge of our healthcare system and health literacy to Title I middle and high school students in frontier and rural service areas. High Sierra AHEC’s qualified Student Ambassadors are provided content delivery, resulting in meaningful mentorship, interaction, supportive services, and program participant retainment.

●  High Sierra AHEC Student Ambassadors are the vehicle to the continued development and implementation of all primary outreach programs. Through their volunteerism, they engage with the community and deliver curriculum to their younger peers; advancing their career readiness, professionalism, and employability skills.

●  Nevada AHEC Scholars are health and medical students that continue to expand upon their healthcare knowledge and experiences at the graduate level through the complementary and comprehensive experiential, clinical, and didactic curriculum. Committed to a two-year training program, their engagement contributes to the development of better-trained and engaged future healthcare leaders and change-makers. Today, the Nevada AHEC Scholars Program has over 75 active participants representing over 10 healthcare disciplines.

Your contribution will help cultivate healthcare learners into healthcare leaders resulting in improved outcomes for diverse patient populations and improve community health.