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HCOP Ends

 From the Chair

Dear colleagues:

Our next meeting will be on Monday, March 5, 2007 at 5:30pm in HSC T-513. Please see the minutes from our last meeting that have been posted to the website.

Here's the agenda for our next meeting:

5:30   Updates – SNMA, LMSA, MWS, APAMSA
6:00   Fund Development – funding issues that have come up in OMCA
6:15   Bridging the gap between upper campus and south campus
6:30   OMCA needs assessment:
            a) How are we doing?
            b) Are there gaps in services we need to consider?
6:45   Community engagement:
            a) Are we doing this?
                b) Can we do this better?
7:00   Adjourn

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Victoria Gardner, M.Ed.
Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs
HCOP Ends....

The Health Career Opportunities Program, or HCOP, officially ends on February 28, 2007 at the University of Washington. There has been a major cut by the Bush Administration in the sustaining of Title VII grant funding from HRSA related to the health professions under which HCOP funding came from. Only $3 million was budgeted for HCOP and this funding will be given in total to the four Historically-Black Colleges and Universities. This leaves approximately 80 HCOP-funded institutions in the U.S. without any funding for their programs. HCOP was responsible for funding a number of our programs including the Prematriculation program and the UDOC program (summer enrichment program for high school students) in all 5 WWAMI States.  Dean Ramsey has agreed to sustain our operations until the new academic fiscal year.

We have been very fortunate to have been funded by HRSA over the last 13 years, and are grateful to have had the opportunity to utilize these funds to develop innovative programs that have had a significant impact on the many students who have had the dream of pursuing medicine and other health-related fields - especially those students who come from minority and/or disadvantaged backgrounds who had never been given the opportunity to do so. We are also grateful and deeply indebted to these students who have opened up and shared their stories with us, who have exposed their vulnerabilities to us simply because they trusted us.... because we simply believed in them. We thank these students from the bottom of our hearts for the opportunity to serve them, work with them, and get to know them each as individuals....they have touched us in a way that we will never forget....to our future doctors and health professionals....we thank you.

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