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Shantia, a young woman in Toledo, Ohio, used a Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program to help make her own luck and develop her own opportunity for a better life.

Paulette Bush went through most of her life wondering just what her calling was. With the help of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program, she was able to create a career from a desire to experience something more out of life.

Orisha Ali’s New York City life left her feeling like she was swimming upstream. Fortunately, she found her own conduit to success — a pipeline to her personal goals — through The Pipeline Program , funded by the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program.

This promising practice case study details how Montefiore HPOG provides academic benefits as well as support for trainees that go beyond the classroom.

This promising practice case study illustrates how the WATCH Project’s bridge courses strengthen the bonds between academic stakeholders and allow participants to learn new skills with a “bridge” of support for greater success.

As part of a larger design thinking project, the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program co-created two models of instructor engagement with instructors across its HPOG 1.0 grantees: The World Café and Designing with Stakeholders.  A number of HPOG programs volunteered to pilot these methods in their program to (1) improve collaboration between instructors and HPOG staff, and (2) engage instructors in devising innovative strategies to improve student persistence.  The publication “Using the World Café to Improve Instructor Engagement: A Guide for Health Profession Opportunity Grants Programs (PDF)” describes the World Café pilot projects and the experiences of the grantees who participated.

Not familiar with design thinking?  At its heart, design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving.  It consists of a set of tools that focus on empathy for the end-user in the creation and consideration of any solution.

College students who enter college with weak basic skills struggle to keep up with courses and complete their degree or program. What can HPOG administrators, college instructors, and support service personnel do to help these students succeed?

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on October 15, 2014.

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on June 20, 2014.

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on May 30, 2014.