English-language training in MA focuses on healthcare
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 1, 2005
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Earlier this week, 45 students graduated from the Working English Program, an English- language training course offered by Centro Las Americas, a non-profit organization serving Hispanics in the Greater Worcester (MA) community. This English-as-a-second-language class helps the Latino population advance their healthcare careers. Students learn words specific to the healthcare industry, as well as pronunciation, and job-seeking and interviewing skills. The director of the Centro agency says that he and his colleagues formed this training program to ease the language barrier, which their research showed to be the biggest obstacle facing Latinos in the healthcare industry. The state of Massachusetts has a growing need for bilingual nurses and nurses' assistants to work with an increasing elderly Latino population.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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