Welcome Back Center in the news
KUOW.ORG
January 3, 2012 ~ Immigrants Hope To Resume Health Care Work In US.Migration Policy Institute Award
May 2011 - Welcome Back
Initiative winner of the 2011 E Pluribus Unum award.
Watch the
6 minute
video or visit the
MPI websiteto learn more about the award and Welcome Back.
Bursst for Prosperity
http://www.bursst.org/stories_TokunboAjayi.php
"Tokunbo
credits the Welcome Back Center with helping him obtain his current
employment as a medical assistant, as well as providing educational
support as he works toward his U.S. medical credentials."
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of this story.
Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
"The Puget Sound Welcome Back Center at Highline helps them identify the additional training they need and how best to get it. It was planned in partnership with the California Welcome Back Initiative, which started in San Francisco in 2001 (http://www.welcomebackintiative.org/) and provides a model for this type of work, with centers now in four states." - Lornet Turnbull,2008 Read more of this story.
San Francisco State University
"The Welcome Back Center is a model for positive change and
deserves this recognition not only for its innovation and
creativity, but for the dramatic effect it has had on the lives of
both the medical professionals involved and the people they serve."
-San Francisco State President Robert A. Corrigan
http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2008/summer/13.html
Thunderword at Highline Community College
October 31, 2008New Center Offers hope to Foreign Professionals
By Sidney Pacampara, Staff Reporter ~ Note: See page 3
November 13, 2008
Students Draw Experience From Veins
By Grace Dewitt, Staff Reporter ~ Note: See page 1
February 2009
Center Offers Prescription for Better English
By Yun Hwang, Staff Reporter ~ Note: See page 11
