The "Wear a Scrub...Get a Career Program" was designed and created by Dr. Linda Rhodes, an education consultant to the Hirtzel Institute on Health Education & Aging at Mercyhurst University. She is CEO and Founder of Wear a Scrub...Get a Career. Dr. Rhodes has been working with youth for nearly a decade developing summer camps and the Wear a Scrub program as a means to inspire young people from diverse backgrounds towards health careers. She holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

The faith-based program offers Youth Ministers of culturally diverse congregations a program that exposes young people (6th through 8th grade) to seven promising health careers by way of interactive learning. Students learn about each career and are then challenged to create a care plan for a teen involved in a car accident -- "Nikeea's case" as a team.

The "Healing Ministry of Health Careers" activity engages youth to interpret one of four bible passages and report back to the group as to its message related to the spiritual side of health professions and healing. The "Mind, Body and Spirit" activity teaches youth that our health care system of medical specialties can lead people to feel like they are  being treated as body parts rather than as a whole person. At the end of the exercise, youth exchange awareness bracelets with each other that state, "Health Careers Heal: Body, Mind and Spirit." They close the day learning about and discussing health disparities among minority communities and lifestyle changes they can embrace to address it. 

Youth Ministers are provided a step-by-step guide on how to plan, organize and run a Wear a Scrub event at their church. Each activity is easily explained along with a training powerpoint. Over 450 youth have attended a "Wear a Scrub" events Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio giving the program rave reviews among youth and Youth Ministers. It was recently offered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ a(COGIC) and the program is now available nationally.

David and Finesse Cobb spearhead the marketing and administration

of the "Wear a Scrub...Get A Career" Program. Both are life long members of

the Church of God in Christ. Finesse serves under the leadership of

Bishop David. M. Screven, Jurisdictional Prelate, Eastern Pennsylvania.
She is also a Eastern Pennsylvania National Delegate and renders service

as Church Treasurer of Emanuel Church of God in Christ, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

David Cobb is CEO of APP Business Solutions with Finesse Cobb as CFO.

This dynamic company is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

& Minority Business Enterprise Industrial Products & Health Care Industry

Supplier with contracts spanning across the United States.

As Finesse and David have grown their successful business they've seen the

demand and market for careers in health care that are both purposeful and

lucrative. "Too many of our youth simply aren't aware of all the possibilities

that await them. We want to change that and Wear a Scrub delivers on both!

Wear a Scrub...Get a Career! is a program offered by What About You? LLC

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