Fall Leadership Conference

Friday, November 16th 2018

Naugatuck Valley Community College

750 Chase Parkway; Waterbury, CT 06708

The theme is “Tobacco Awareness”. Our keynote speaker is Dan Fitzgerald. He is 22 years old and was born and raised in the State of Rhode Island. Dan now works for the American Lung Association as Director of Tobacco Free Rhode Island and has over ten years of tobacco control experience. His educational background is in prevention science, marketing, nonprofit management, and public health. Dan began his journey in tobacco control and prevention at the age of 12 as a youth advocate in his community and for the state soon after.

After founding a local nonprofit in his tri-town area and working with a federally funded prevention coalition, Dan took his passion to affect change to the federal level and began working for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) where he helped oversee substance use prevention services for Rhode Island. During his two year tenor with SAMHSA, Dan became a part of the Truth Initiative Youth Activism Fellowship. During his fellowship, he was able to work with 30 other young professionals to change the culture of tobacco use across the nation. He also implemented a presentation based project in his state which ended up engaging over 21,000 people via social media in a 4 month period, activated over 1,900 youth and young adults in face-to-face trainings, and mobilized nearly 500 young people at a state-wide advocacy event. After completing his fellowship, Dan now serves as a consultant and mentor for the next round of Youth Activism Fellows and is a spokesperson for the national organization.

Workshops include:

Mental health awareness and how HOSA members can help. Our overarching HOSA Service Project for last year and this year is NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

Youth activism against tobacco use

HOSA State Officers will present on the benefits of HOSA and how to become a state officer.

We hope to offer tours of the state-of-the-art simulation labs at Naugatuck

8:00 AM- Arrival, Registration and Breakfast

8:30 AM- Opening Ceremony

2:00 PM- Dismissal

State Leadership Conference

Saturday, March 9th,

2018

Snow date- Sat, March 16th

Waterbury Career Academy

175 Birch Street; Waterbury, CT 06704

Activities of the day will include: continental breakfast and lunch, keynote speaker (TBA), National Competitive Events Program, election and installation of the new state officer team, awarding of scholarships, vendor display, HOSA Bowl for fun.

Exciting new IPE (Inter-Professional Education) simulation event!- Colleges use inter-professional simulations like this to teach future doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other therapists. We will once again be running this newest event called Health Care Team. Form a 5 person team and work together to care for an accident victim in a simulated ED setting. Medals will be awarded. This is a pilot event that does not yet run at the International level, so students are also allowed to compete in another event (must be an event with written test only).

The high point of the day is the awarding of gold, silver and bronze medals for each competitive event.

Connecticut HOSA Competitive Events List 2018-19

http://cthosa.homestead.com/files/1_1_2016-17_List_of_comp_events.pdf

Students can compete in only one event for a medal. They can also compete in a recognition event for a certificate.

Health Science Events (Medal)
Medical Reading, Medical Spelling, Medical Terminology, Nutrition, Human Growth & Development, Medical Law and Ethics, Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, Transcultural Healthcare
Medical Math (calculators supplied by CT HOSA)

Health Professions Events (Medal)
Nursing Assisting, Sports Medicine, Medical Assisting

Emergency Preparedness (Medal)
CPR/First Aid, EMT, Public Health, MRC Partnership, Epidemiology

Leadership Events (Medal)
Job Seeking Skills, *Interviewing Skills, Medical Photography, Prepared Speaking, *Speaking Skills, Researched Persuasive Speaking

Teamwork Events (Medal)
Health Career Display, Creative Problem Solving, Forensic Medicine

Recognition Events (Certificates are given if rubric standard is met) Outstanding HOSA Chapter (Scrapbook)
HOSA Happenings (Chapter Newsletter, written or electronic or web page)

* Special Needs Event

Past Happenings

2014-2015

Leadership Conference

Friday, October 24, 2014

The Connecticut HOSA Fall Leadership Conference will be held on Friday, October 24, 2014 at Naugatuck Valley Community College.

Our Keynote speaker was Carolyn Finch. Her lively and participatory keynote was entitled: Lead With Your Body Language. She is a Speech Language Pathologist and Applied Kinesiologist, Nutrition Educator and an internationally known Body Language Expert who has shared the importance of the connection between body language and the brain in places as far away as Namibia, Africa and Australia. She has been a model, actress and instructor of Speech and Non Verbal Communication at the University level.

The state officers held workshops that provided opportunities for local officers and members to gain insight into the state and national levels of HOSA.

The day will include a tour of the lab areas in the many medical programs that Naugatuck has to offer in addition to many other things.

Short presentations were made by a representative from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Mass. College of Pharmacy and two fundraising organizations.

The conference was co-sponsored by Naugatuck Valley Community College and Connecticut HOSA. It ran from 9:00 am – 2:15 pm, with a continental breakfast at 8:30 am.

News ('13-'14)

10/18/13

Git Your Pink On Day

What: Wear Pink, donate $1

When: Friday October 18, 2013

www.getintouchfoundation.org/gitgirls

HOSA is currently accepting donations in the Cafe for the Get in Touch Foundation. Please consider donating to recieve a bracelet.

Fall Leadership Conference

Friday, October 25, 2013

The Connecticut HOSA Fall Leadership Conference will be held on Friday, October 25, 2013 at Naugatuck Valley Community College.
The state officers will be holding workshops that will provide opportunities for local officers and members to network, brainstorm together, and exchange ideas as well as gain insight into the state and national levels of HOSA.
The day will include a tour of the lab areas in the many medical programs that Naugatuck has to offer in addition to many other things.
This conference is being sponsored by Naugatuck Valley Community College.
The Conference will run from 9:00 am 2:30 pm, with a continental breakfast at 8:30 am.

11/19/2013

The Sensational Dan Larosa Comedy Hypnosis Show

When: Tuesday, November 19th 2013

Cost: $6.00 Pre-Sale $8.00 at the door

7pm

Where: Bunnell High School Auditorium

News ('12-'13)

10/19/12

Git Your Pink On Day

What: Wear Pink, donate $1

When: Friday October 19, 2012

www.getintouchfoundation.org/gitgirls

10/24/12

The Sensational Dan Larosa Comedy Hypnosis Show

When: Wednesday October 24, 2012

Cost: $5.00 Pre-Sale $7.00 at the door

Where: Bunnell High School Auditorium

Past News ('10-'11)

4/7/2011

http://stratford.patch.com/articles/students-and-professionals-collaborate-to-make-the-juvenile-diabetes-fair-a-success#c

Bunnell/Stratford High H.O.S.A.'s Juvenile Diabetes Fair was on Wednesday, February 2 at the Stratford Library Lovell Room from 6:30-8:00 PM. Guest exhibitionists included Bridgeport Hospital, Yale, Nature's Way Health Foods, JDRF Foundation, Fitness Edge, and more! This event was a wonderful way to learn more about BOTH Type I and Type II diabetes, as well as methods of prevention and disease management. Please refer to stratford.patch.com for a write-up on the event with images.

Bunnell HOSA participated in CT's State Conference on Thursday, March 31st. Rosangelica Figueroa and Derrick Afrifra were elected CT State Secretary and Parliamentarian, respectively, for the 2011-2012 scademic year! Bunnell came through with "Oustanding HOSA Chapter" for putting together a scrapbook of the past year. Additionally, Bunnell members placed in competitions like Creative Problem Solving and Job Seeking Skills. Senior Ryne Pataki assisted in running the conference with fellow board members, CJ Cordero, Brittney Garvey, Socheata Lim, and Priscilla Maldonado.

Bunnell HOSA is beginning its new year with a fantastic start. 40+ students have become regular members! This is great considering the loss of many members in last year's senior class.

The CT State Leadership Conference has been announced for December 3rd at Gateway Community College in North Haven. A new policy this year allows for officers, as well as additional members to be in attendance. Amy Gallimore will be the keynote speaker and available workshops include leadership training, health career pathways and nursing lab visit, radiologic technology and nutrition, exercise science and welleness and predental hygiene, as well as a juvenile diabtes roundtable discussion.

We hope to have some chapter pictures/a viewbook of the chapter scrapbook from last year's state competition online soon.

The chapter is currently in the planning stages for a service project on the topic of juvenile diabetes (national HOSA's cause for this year). A guest speaker will be at a meeting on November 8th from a local juvenile diabetes nonprofit. This speaker will introduce the group to all aspects of juvenile diabetes and help plan the project.

Other fundraising has been successful and will include activity at the next three home football games.

1/2011:

The Fall Leadership Conference proved to be a great success! Students most enjoyed the patient simulations facilitated by the nursing department at Gateway. Additionally, the guest speaker, Amy Gallimore, was praised for her enthusiastic spirit and comprehensive leaderhip training. Her stories had the entire room laughing and working as a unit. BUNNELL HOSA IS PROUD TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE POPULARLY VOTED CT STATE HOSA THEME FOR THIS YEAR! (In service we believe and together we acheive.)

The Health and Medical Careers classes at Bunnell (including some of our H.O.S.A. members) successfully completed a Learn and Serve project in December at a local middle school. Each team designed an interactive presentation on an important health topic for local youth.

A joint effort with Stratford High School is scheduled for February. YHSC will be assisting our two H.O.S.A. chapters in creating a Juvenile Diabetes fair and information session with the potential for mass community media coverage.

For those interested in joining or becoming involved with the BHS HOSA chapter: email hosa.bhs@gmail.com, rynepataki@optonline.net, or signorm@stratfordk12.org. You may also call the Bunnell main office at 203-385-4250.

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Past News ('09-'10)

Bunnell HOSA is participating in the October 24th Breat Cancer Awareness walk at Sherwood Island State Park, as it does every year. Members will be fundraising so that the chapter can contribute a donation to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Foundation (American Cancer Society).

LEARN AND SERVE PROJECT: April 17th at the Bridgeport YMCA. Members will be creating a sort of mini-field day in cooperation with a youth health and nutrition day hosted by the YMCA and local organizations. A special thanks to SW AHEC for their help in planning and getting this project off the ground!

BHS H.O.S.A. is proud to partner with Southwestern AHEC in providing youth with excellent health-related opportunities. SW AHEC is one of four AHEC centers in CT and is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization. Bunnell is proud to be a part of AHEC's most active center to date!

MISSION: To enchance access to quality primary and preventive healthcare in Southwestern Connecticut by linking students, providers and families through education, workforce development and community collaborations.

Also, Bunnell H.O.S.A. participated in the 2010 State H.O.S.A. conference on March 30th at Southwestern CT State University. Bunnell H.O.S.A. had success in the Creative Problem Solving, EMT and CPR skills, Outstanding HOSA chapter (scrapbook), and creative health display. Additionally, Ryne Pataki was elected the state secretary for the upcoming year.

State Leadership Competition

State Leadership Conference

Friday, March 28, 2014

Special Guest Speaker: Bernie Siegel, MD

The Connecticut HOSA State Leadership Conference will be held on Friday, March 28th, 2014 at the new campus of Gateway Community College, 20 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510. HOSA members will be competing in the National Competitive Events Program. See below for the list of events to choose from.

Our special guest speaker will be Bernie Siegel, MD, an internationally known writer and retired pediatric surgeon, who writes on the relationship between the patient and the healing process. He is known for his best-selling book Love, Medicine and Miracles. He is an advocate for patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet. He continues to break new ground in the field of healing, supporting changes in medical education to humanize medical practice.

Activities of the day will include the awarding of the Connecticut HOSA Scholarship(s), speeches and election of state officers for next year, and a tour of the brand new high tech nursing labs and other high tech medical labs that Gateway has to offer.

The Awards Ceremony is the culminating activity of the day, where competitors find out who won the gold, silver and bronze medals in each event. Judging will be done by a variety of health care professionals.

A continental breakfast will be served at 8:30 am and the conference will run from 9 am 3:30 pm. This conference is being sponsored by Gateway Community College.