ED U C A TION
Life Support
Health Careers Academy celebrates community partnerships and its first-ever graduating class
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By Jennifer Torres-Siders
hen a new school year begins at Stockton’s Health Careers Academy, a panel
of community partners – this past fall, there were 30 in all – assembles on campus to welcome students. “That really sets the tone,” Principal Traci Miller explains. “It says to them, “We’re here supporting you – before you even walk through the door, we’re supporting you.” Now, as the high school prepares to celebrate the graduation of its first senior class, community connections remain among its greatest strengths and accomplishments, Miller says. Moses
Elam,
Stockton-Modesto
physician-in-chief
for
the
Permanente Medical Group, has visited the campus to speak. Sutter Gould Medical Foundation has hosted a professional Linda Zaro and Dayvon Patterson
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