National Groundhog Job Shadow Day was Thursday February 2nd, 2012. Students from the Excelsior Springs Job Corps Center and the Alternate Training Location in Kansas City participated in this opportunity for exposure to various careers and mentoring.

Six Medical Office Support Students (Ashley Dahlem, Isabella Corum, Jessie Tangemen, Jordan Daniels, Margarita Marin, and Sarina Turner) spent five hours at the Good Samaritan Center in Excelsior Springs.  During that time they helped with the preparations for the appreciation luncheon that the Good Samaritan Center will be sponsoring for their volunteers.  The following are the activities the MOS students were involved with:
                Printed off coupons that were included in the appreciation gifts
                Created a banner that will hang during the luncheon
                Put up ceiling decorations
                Wrapped tableware and tied them with a ribbon
                Put appreciation gifts together

The Certified Nurse Assistant class from the Alternate Training Location in Kansas City took eight students to Job Shadow at Clara Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at 3621 Warwick Kansas City Mo. This was a first for all but one of the student’s being in a nursing home.  They began with a tour of the center and visited all the different departments and spoke to the department heads and each one told the student’s about their aspect of running their department how many employees they had and ranges of pay scales and educational requirements. They also visited dietary, laundry, house keeping, finance, social work, activities director, administration, and the Director of Nursing. They then headed up to the floor and started doing procedures of passing ice and making beds and gave seven showers and tub baths. The student’s have a greater appreciation of what it takes and how many people’s input to make the center run smoothly.

Twenty-one students from the Certified Medical Assistant class were given a tour of the Community Blood Bank in Kansas City. The students learned how the blood was stored after donation and long it could be kept. Eighteen students were also able to make a donation while they were there.

Nationally, Job Corps has participated in Groundhog Job Shadow Day since 1999. For more information please visit www.americaspromise.org.