North Carolina HOSA
" HOSA: The Hearts that Believe and the Hands that Achieve."
" HOSA: The Hearts that Believe and the Hands that Achieve."
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North Carolina HOSA " HOSA: The Hearts that Believe and the Hands that Achieve." |
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District 6 Representative News
July-August
Hey there District 6 HOSA!
As the summer begins to draw to a close, HOSA members should be thinking about chapter plans for the upcoming year. In the next few weeks, chapter officers should meet and build a Plan of Work for their chapter. A Plan of Work can be organized by goal, such as membership, service, awareness, etc. or chronologically. A Plan of Work Template can be found at the link below in Chapter B of the Chapter Officer Guide.
http://nchosa.org/Publications.html
The documents on that site are wonderful resources for planning chapter activities, increasing chapter involvement, and learning more about HOSA opportunities.
In the next month, chapters will be busy with their membership drives. In order to increase our numbers, it is important to attract new members as well as returning ones. There are a number of recruitment methods. Some schools host activity fairs, while others advertise with posters and flyers. Maybe your chapter can have a spot on the daily news show. Others use word of mouth or talk about HOSA during Health Occupation Education classes, like Health Team Relations or Allied Health Science. Regardless of how your chapter chooses to recruit members, it is important to emphasize the benefits of HOSA involvement. The best way to get people interested in a club, organization, or group, is to tell them what they will get as a result of their participation. Below are some examples of how HOSA can benefit your members.
Opportunities to learn more about careers in health care
Of course, this is just a short list. Feel free to come up with your own list of HOSA benefits to use as a marketing tool during your HOSA membership drive. When speaking with potential members, mention past activities that your chapter has been involved in as well as the new State and National Service Projects.
This year’s Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) will be held on October 11, 2010 at Karyae Park in Gastonia from 9:00am until 2:00pm. The preliminary agenda includes election of District Officers, representatives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and/or Victory Junction, team building activities on the park’s low ropes challenge course, and much more!
We will be hosting our District Leadership Conference (DLC) a little early this year in an effort to avoid any bad weather and to give winning competitors more time to prepare for State Competition. The District 6 Leadership Conference will be held on November 6, 2010 at Gaston College in the David Belk Cannon Health Institute. The conference will begin at 9:00am and the end time is yet to be determined. The preliminary agenda includes an opening session lead by the District Officers, competitive events, tours of the David Belk Cannon Health Institute, and a closing awards ceremony. I am also looking into organizing a few educational symposiums to be offered during the conference.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or interests. I would love to hear from members and receive updates on local chapter activities.
Sincerely,
Elyse Marder
NC-HOSA District 6 State Representative
nchosadistrict6rep@nchosa.org
June-July
Hello District 6 HOSA!
Let me begin by saying how honored I am to serve as your NC-HOSA District 6 State Representative and District President this year. I look forward to meeting all of you and putting together some great conferences and activities for the district.
The National Leadership Conference (NLC) was amazing this year (as it is every year!) and I would like to congratulate all of the winners! The winners from District 6 are (and there are a lot!):
Dental Spelling: Austin Graves Highland Tech 7 th Place
Medical Terminology: NaVaneet Galagali, Ardrey Kell 5th Place AND Beradine Pierre, Myers Park 9th Place
Medical Math: Elizabeth Shen. Myers Park 10th Place
Human Growth/Development: Ritihi Sridhar. Myers Park 4th Place
Clinical Specialty: Elyse Marder. Highland Tech 1st Place
Medical Assisting: Harsh Shah. David W. Butler 6th Place
Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Chan & Siew. David W. Butler 3rd Place
Community Awareness: Kothadia/Shah. East Mecklenburg 1st Place
Creative Problem Solving: Boyle/Shah/Shah/Truong. David W. Butler 1st Place
HOSA Bowl: Forniotis/Le/Nguyen/Oliver, David W. Butler 5th Place AND Dinh/Larson/Hall/Sanft, David W. Butler 7th Place
Biomedical Debate: Paleou/Sun/Wang, Myers Park 1st Place AND Sadanani/Shah/Parikh, Myers Park 3rd Place
Outstanding HOSA Chapter: Ardrey Kell, David W. Butler, Highland School of Technology, Myers Park
Chapter Newsletter: David W. Butler, Highland School of Technology, Phillip O. Berry School of Technology
Again, congratulations to all of the winners! It is a huge accomplishment and an experience that will help all of you in your future health care careers! For any questions about competitive events, please refer to Section B of the HOSA Handbook at:
http://www.hosa.org/natorg/sectb/index.html
At the NLC, the voting delegates selected the new National Service Project for the next two years. The organization selected was the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). This organization raises money to help fund diabetes research—this includes cures, better treatments, prevention, how to better avoid complications, etc. All of these projects help make the lives of Type 1 Diabetics better, easier, and healthier. The JDRF also provides hope for those living with Type 1 Diabetes by organizing support groups, providing Bags of Hope to newly diagnosed children, keeping supporters up-to-date on advances in research and technology, and providing children with scholarships to attend diabetes camps, as well as many other services. There are currently no survivors of diabetes—only sufferers. I have personally received the benefits of the JDRF as a diabetic for almost 8 years now and I am so glad that HOSA has chosen to partner with the foundation for the next two years. I am working on getting a representative from JDRF to speak at our Fall Leadership and/or District Leadership Conference(s). You can learn about JDRF at www.jdrf.org and get involved in the Charlotte Chapter at www.jdrf.org/charlotte. The Charlotte walk will be held in April of next year at Carowinds. If you have any questions about JDRF, Juvenile Diabetes, or how you can help, please email me. In addition, I would be glad to come speak to your chapter about Type 1 Diabetes and JDRF!
The State Service Project for this year is Victory Junction. We feel that this is a wonderful cause and there are many ways tat you can help send a child with a chronic disease to camp. Later I will have an update on how your chapters can get involved!
When the State Officers met in early June, we determined many of our goals for the year. One goal is to increase membership and to double the number of Post-Secondary/Collegiate chapters to 10. District 6, you can play a huge role in meeting this goal. As one of the most populated and metropolitan areas of the state, we have a large student population and much room for growth in our number of HOSA members. In addition, District 6 is the home to many post-secondary schools and colleges without HOSA chapters, such as Gaston College, CPCC, Belmont Abbey, etc. I have already contacted members of the Health Science faculty at Gaston College and the possibility of starting a chapter there seems promising. If you are a post‑secondary student who would like to be involved in starting a HOSA chapter at your school, please contact me! In addition, we are trying to start some middle school chapters. It would be great if a high school chapter could “adopt” a middle school chapter. This would help the students learn about HOSA and health careers. It would also increase membership at the high school level in later years, because incoming freshman would already be familiar with the organization!
Another goal in the State Plan of Work is to increase district involvement. This includes increasing the involvement of the District Officers. For those who are unaware, District Officers are elected at the Fall Leadership Conference (FLC). The District 6 FLC will be held at Karyae Park again this year at a date soon to be determined. I highly encourage you to run for District Office! Serving as a District Officer is a great way to get more involved in HOSA and gain valuable experience if you are interested in State or even National Office! District Officers are involved in preparing a District Newsletter at least twice per year, running the District Leadership Conference, submitting monthly reports on HOSA related activities, and being an ambassador of HOSA in general! If you are interested in running for a District Office, please contact your chapter advisor! A link for the District Officer Application (and State Officer Application…for those of you who are thinking ahead and aiming high!) is available at the following site: http://nchosa.org/Member%20Services.html
Again, if there are any questions, comments, concerns, or interests, please drop me an email at nchosadistrict6rep@nchosa.org. I would love to hear from members and receive updates on local chapter activities. Feel free to send pictures too!
Sincerely,
Elyse Marder
NC-HOSA District 6 State Representative
nchosadistrict6rep@nchosa.org