By WILL PERKINS
Glasgow News 1
The Boys and Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren County and Med Center Health Glasgow have partnered to offer paid internship opportunities to area teens.
Rachel Carver, workforce development coordinator for Med Center Health Glasgow, said these interns will be able to learn, firsthand, what happens in a hospital. She added that these internships are important because it allows students to experience the medical field and decide if it is something they would like to pursue after graduating high school.
“We’re really excited for this opportunity,” Carver said. “We really hope that these students are going to thrive in this, and we really hope that this is something that they can take with them in their career.”
Kessley Amos, a rising senior at Glasgow High School, said she wants to be a registered nurse and hopes this internship will help her gain some experience down that path.
“I hope from this internship that I can gain some sense of like responsibility and punctuality,” Amos said. “I’m excited to kind of feel like a nurse.”
Amos said she was inspired to enter the medical profession after her mother died of a heart attack, adding that she wants to work in a hospital to hopefully help prevent “another girl from losing their mom” one day.
These student interns are able to be paid through a workforce development grant obtained by the Boys and Girls Club, said Wade Copas, director of operations for the club.
“I wish I could have done something like this when I was younger,” Copas said. “We are lucky enough that the club has this grant and has the staff that are willing to go through all that, all the processes with our members.
“We’re really excited about the opportunities that this is going to present now and in the future.”
