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Pellissippi State Nursing student Therese Lloyd<\/strong> volunteers with YouthForce, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley\u2019s workforce development program, during a Nursing camp on the College’s Strawberry Plains Campus on June 8, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A summer Nursing camp at Pellissippi State Community College left a lasting impression on Therese Lloyd<\/strong> when she was just 16 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four summers later, Lloyd volunteered at that same camp as a Nursing student at Pellissippi State, helping 12 high school students from Knox and Blount counties with a simulated birth, newborn assessments, swaddling, drawing up medication for babies and other tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember being really inspired during my week at YouthForce and realizing that this is what I wanted to do with my life,\u201d said Lloyd, now 20 and expecting to graduate with her Nursing degree in spring 2023. \u201cI volunteered to help with the camp this year because I wanted to tell these kids so many things about Nursing that would be beneficial to them. It\u2019s a fulfilling, needed, versatile career, and they can do this \u2013 straight out of high school. I feel like I have so much knowledge to share with them!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouthForce is the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley\u2019s workforce development program that introduces high school students to skilled trades. Pellissippi State\u2019s Strawberry Plains Campus, led by Campus Dean Mike North, <\/strong>has been partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley to provide space for its YouthForce Technical Training Camps since 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re here with us for a week in the summer, and the camps attract kids from a diverse population,\u201d North explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a wide mix, but most of our kids are African American, and this is a good way to bring diversity to these fields.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June Pellissippi State hosted 36 YouthForce students for camps focusing on Engineering, Gaming and Game Design, Nursing and Welding. The College will host another round of YouthForce students in July with camps in Criminal Justice, Gaming and Game Design and Welding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lloyd was a rising junior at William Blount High School in Blount County when she participated in YouthForce under Pellissippi State Nursing Instructor Felicia Murret,<\/strong> who was teaching the YouthForce students again this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pellissippi State Nursing student Therese Lloyd<\/strong>, left, helps Hardin Valley Academy ninth grader Cameiah Essie<\/strong> with newborn assessments at a Nursing camp on the college’s Strawberry Plains Campus June 8, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never had thought about Nursing, but I knew I loved biology and I loved children,\u201d explained Lloyd, who lives in Louisville, Tennessee. \u201cI came here and realized I could put those two together for a career in pediatric Nursing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lloyd remembers YouthForce providing her with scrubs and a Nursing pack that included everything from personal protective equipment to her own stethoscope. She also remembers learning CPR, First Aid and how to stop bleeding among simulated Nursing experiences like running a Code Blue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That one week of exposure to Nursing also exposed her to Pellissippi State. Lloyd became a dual enrollment student at the College while completing high school, getting three Nursing prerequisites out of the way before she graduated from William Blount in 2020. She was able to start Pellissippi State full time in fall 2020 and the College\u2019s Nursing program in fall 2021, after finishing the rest of her prerequisites.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been great, and I love it,\u201d said Lloyd, who completed her pediatric clinicals this summer at East Tennessee Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cThe Nursing school is a lot of work, but the instructors are helpful and friendly, and that\u2019s what\u2019s gotten me through this. I also love the free counseling Pellissippi State offers, plus all the activities and how the College has helped me get grants and scholarships to keep my costs down.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The YouthForce camps have been so successful that North recently applied for and was awarded a Tennessee Board of Regents grant to expand the program so that high school students can come to Pellissippi State two Saturdays in the fall and two Saturdays in the spring before completing their \u201ccapstone project\u201d during the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPIKE Academy \u2013 so named for \u201cStrawberry Plains Increases Knowledge and Engagement\u201d \u2013 will recruit rising high school seniors who are interested in the high-demand fields of Nursing and Welding. Each cohort can accept up to 15 students, North said, and recruiting will begin in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe governor has been allocating more resources to bring young people into careers that are either projected to be in high demand, like Welding, or that are experiencing a downturn, like Nursing after the pandemic, where we\u2019ve seen shortages due to burnout,\u201d North explained. \u201cBut another intent of the SPIKE Academy is to increase enrollment at Pellissippi State as well. Ideally these seniors who are chosen for the program would graduate from high school and step right into being a Pellissippi State student, like Therese did. We will be giving them lots of exposure to how to become a student here, from admissions to advising to financial aid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

North added that the SPIKE Academy will address Pellissippi State\u2019s goals of increasing diversity, equity and inclusion at the College by recruiting students from underrepresented populations, like women in Welding and Black students in both Nursing and Welding. The SPIKE Academy also will make creative use of Pellissippi State\u2019s Strawberry Plains Campus when college students are not in the building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love that high school students get to come be on our campus during the summers, so let\u2019s expand that and utilize our facilities in other off times, like weekends during the school year.\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TBR grant for $19,975 will cover the cost for two Welding instructors and three Nursing instructors for the SPIKE Academy, as well as Welding and Nursing kits for students in the program, bus transportation from the Boys & Girls Clubs sites to the Strawberry Plains Campus, and food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the SPIKE Academy, contact North at 865-225-2303. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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