Former Profession Middle college students, Rebecca (Fulton) Safko, Amanda (Lipscomb) Holman, and Amanda (Carpenter) Warren, have been honored on the Could Board of Training assembly as inductees into the celebrated Washington County Profession Middle Alumni Corridor of Fame.
Rebecca Safko is a 1988 graduate from the previous Cooperative Workplace Training program. She earned a BA in Enterprise Administration and Accounting in 1991 from Marietta School after which graduated from West Virginia College together with her MBA. She is an authorized public accountant.
Safko took the coaching she acquired on the Profession Middle and turned it into a number of levels. Utilizing it each day in her place as the manager director of Ohio Means Jobs Space 15 (OMJ), she companions with financial growth, instructional amenities, and companies to search out options for employers and job seekers. Rebecca makes a speciality of accounting and grand funding administration to upskill job seekers to supply a profession pathway for self-sufficiency. The job Rebecca does every single day has a direct affect on college students on the Profession Middle. By OMJ, grownup college students can obtain tuition help, assist with college provides and different crucial gadgets that set them up for fulfillment. Safko oversees a four-county area and has an in-depth understanding of a technical college and the values of attending to the Profession Middle. She has secured a number of grants that immediately impacted the college and permits for expanded coaching alternatives.
Amanda “Mandy” Holman is a 1998 graduate from the previous Diversified Cooperative Well being Occupations program. In 2001, she acquired her LPN diploma and, in 2002, an Affiliate Diploma in Nursing from Hocking School. In 2008, Holman earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and graduated Cum Laude from West Virginia College. Throughout that point, she additionally graduated from the West Virginia Nursing Management Institute, which is an interactive 12-month program that prepares nurses to turn out to be efficient leaders who positively affect the crucial want for nurse recruitment and retention. The main focus was on staff dynamics and the ability of a staff has to affect change throughout the dwelling group. Mandy went on to earn a Grasp of Science in Nursing Administration from Marshall College in 2012. In 2015, she acquired a Put up Grasp Certificates Household Nurse Practitioner diploma from Wheeling Jesuit College.
Mandy has labored at each stage of healthcare and nursing, together with a nursing clerk, affected person care technician, ER technician, LPN, RN, BSN, and MSN-administration. By her work in high quality and administration, she introduced a top quality enchancment challenge that she led in decreasing coronary heart failure readmissions. In 2014, she was invited to talk on this on the Premier Breakthroughs Nationwide Convention. She may be very serious about educating the neighborhood and has been on instructional classes with the native radio on a number of events. She volunteers for added committees to assist mentor and practice newer nurse practitioners in addition to help with development of high quality care and affected person outcomes.
Holman is presently employed as a household nurse practitioner at WVU Drugs/UHA at MOV Vienna. In her spare time, she volunteers in teaching and aiding completely different youth sports activities. Mandy resides in Vincent together with her husband, Kevin, and three kids, Zack, Haylee, and Adalyn.
Amanda Warren is a 2003 graduate from the previous Well being Academy-Well being program. She labored as a private care assistant whereas acquiring an LPN certificates from Washington State Neighborhood School in 2007. Whereas working at Selby Basic Hospital, Warren obtained an Affiliate Diploma in Nursing in 2010. In 2018, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ohio College. In 2020, she acquired the Eleanor D. Fenton Award for prime quality affected person care and glorious communication abilities at Selby. Warren is employed because the affiliate nurse supervisor at Selby Hospital. She can be a part-time nursing medical teacher for the College of Rio Grande Nursing Program. In her spare instances, she volunteers for 4H to advertise youth growth and life-long abilities to the youth of Washington County. Amanda resides in Whipple together with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Morgan.