Growing a Highly Skilled,
Diverse Health Care Workforce
“A lot of times when our students think about STEM education, they think about programming or engineering. But there are so many opportunities in medicine at all levels to explore,”
-Mary Nicely, district director for Assemblymember Tony Thurmond about Youth Career Days at Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Innovation Center.
As of the end of Q2 2017:
300
Students attend Youth Career Days at the Kaiser Permanente Garfield Innovation Center
287
College and high school interns explore a range of health care careers with a paid, eight-week hands-on experience via the KP LAUNCH program
$300K
$463K
In charitable contributions supporting early childhood development, education and economic security