Health Professions Internship Partnership

FACES for the Future-San Diego

Winter 2014

Seniors Find Genomics Illumina-ting!

ACES Seniors recently visited Illumina for a 1/2 day field trip. Highlights included a high-level explanation of the field of genome sequencing; the companys impact on personalized medicine; a tour of the training lab, complete with a hands-on pipetting experience; and lunch with a variety of Illumina employees, who shared about their specific areas of focus. The trip had a big impact: when asked at lunch to raise their hands if the days activities had opened their minds to a health Thank you Illumina for so generously field theyd like to pursue, making your facility and employees more than half of the available to our students! students put their hand up.

Introducing the New FACES Staff

Corrie Daughters

ew faces abound at FACES! With more than 30 new Juniors, plus 70+ new Sophomores in the Academy, there are a lot of faces to remember! Here are three more that you wont want to forgetthe new FACES for the Future staff members, Corrie Daughters and Erin Speed, and intern Alexandra Ayala. Corrie was a school counselor in Virginia before moving to San Diego, where she has been working with teenagers in youth ministry and leadership for the past three years. Erin has a masters degree in social work, and has experience working in mental health and school social work settings with both adults and youth. Alexandra, a recent college graduate with a bachelors degree in sociology, is helping out part-time before going back to college for a masters degree in social work.
Alexandra Ayala Erin Speed

Getting into the World of Rotations

ACES Class of 2014 are more than half-way through clinical rotations at Rady Childrens Hospital. Rotations, accommodating a record-size class of 30 students (including 4 from Crawford), include placements in 27 departments.
FACES Seniors celebrate their 1st rotation in front of Rady Childrens Hospital. With their Community mentor at Planned Parenthood Juniors present their community job shadow learning

ere excited2013 FACES graduate Ali Akhmatov has been hired to work as an administrative assistant in the Center for Healthier Communities at Rady Childrens Hospital.

ommunity rotations provide the opportunity for students to learn more about the health issues and resources that are relevant to City Heights and also encourage them to give back to the community in which many of them have been raised. Juniors are required to participate in a minimum of two rotations and have the opportunity to participate in five.

ome of the 56 FACES alumni gathered in December to celebrate the season and each other. With three classes of graduates now attending college and working in the community, FACES staff are working with alumni to develop a program of support to meet their needs. Alumni also are collaborating with staff to create workshops to assist seniors as they transition from high school to college.

Many thanks to our financial supporters: The California Endowment, Duke Energy, Gen-Probe, Inc., The Hervey Family Fund at the San Diego Foundation, Illumina, Inc., J P Morgan Chase & Co.