Established in 1989, the Youth Apprentice Program (formerly the School-to-Work Program) gives Rochester City School District students an opportunity to succeed and achieve a career in healthcare. Our program, based out of Rochester General Hospital, combines academic achievement, mentoring, and volunteerism to improve academic outcomes for students.

Because of generous support from donors like you, students seize the opportunity to work side-by-side with the healthcare professionals at Rochester Regional Health through a one-year comprehensive paid internship. In addition to working in the hospital, students meet experts in personal finance, and college admissions, and takes students off site to spend a day touring the Rochester Institute of Technology campus.

Each participant earns not just his/her high school diploma, but a Certificate of Completion signed by the State of New York attesting the students have had youth employment competency training, and has the skills necessary to be a conscientious and productive employee.

This training, provided by both the school and the program makes students eligible for entry level positions such as:

Patient Care Technician

Pediatric Technician

Material Record Assistant

Respiratory Care Aide

Transporter and Lab Assistant

With your gift, we can help provide tuition, coaching, and income to students throughout the program and bring opportunities to those who otherwise wouldnt have them.