The Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services

Student Nomination Package

The Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services recognizes the outstanding mentors and promising interns who are pursuing and contributing to the dynamic fields within health services.

Each year, one student and one mentor will be selected. The student interns receiving this award are also eligible for a $500 scholarship*. *Student recipients must be able to provide proof of registration in an approved post

secondary health care program leading to certification, in order to receive the scholarship funds.

If your intern achieves excellence in their work in the health services, please consider nominating him or her for this award.

Please note: If you would like to nominate a mentor in addition to an intern, you must complete the “Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services – Mentor Nomination Package”. Nominating both a mentor and an intern is not necessary.

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CAREERS: The Next Generation Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services Purpose

The Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services was created to recognize the outstanding mentors and promising interns who are pursuing and contributing to the dynamic fields within health services. One student and one mentor will be selected. Eligibility for a student scholarship of $500 is available to the students recognized, provided they meet the eligible criteria for the scholarship.

The CAREERS Health Services Youth Initiative creates two opportunities for recognition:

1. Motivated high school students who choose to manifest their interest, enthusiasm,and ambition for health services as a career pathway by being selected and practicingthrough the CAREERS summer health internship in either Grade 11 and/or Grade 12.

2. Health mentors who are knowledgeable, enthusiastic about their career, and whodemonstrate excellent mentorship traits with student health interns.

Having an excellent mentor, combined with an excellent intern, is instrumental in developing Alberta’s youth and achieving our mutual goals:

• Increase awareness of careers in health services• Build employability and marketability skills in youth• To grow a future health services talent pool in Alberta

If you have observed and/or worked with a promising intern who should be recognized for their contributions to the CAREERS Health Services Youth Initiative, please review and complete the contents of this package.

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CAREERS: The Next Generation Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services Student Selection Criteria

Student in Health Services Selection Criteria:

• Student has participated in a CAREERS Health Internship program this year.• Key attributes of an outstanding student include:

o Enthusiasm – acts as an organized, responsible, and energetic team player willing to commit to the tasks and activities related to the internship role.

o Professionalism –demonstrates employability skills that reflected the work environment in terms of cooperativeness, initiative, and reliability.

o Active learner – listens attentively to direction, following instructions to and completing tasks assigned by their supervisors, to enhance workplace skills.

o Engaged – incorporates the learning outcomes of the health internship to help define their individual career pathway in health services.

o Employability Skills Demonstration - demonstrates increased awareness and application of the Conference Board of Canada’s employability skills profile of foundational skills, personal management skills, and team skills required to be an effective health care worker.

• Received comments that illustrate how the attributes of the student health intern impacted and/or benefitted the organization and/or speak to the goals of the CAREERS Health Services Youth Initiative.

• Nominator must obtain the consent of the nominee prior to submission.

Application Process

To submit an eligible nomination, you must provide all of the following information. You may print or type your answers on a separate document & include this in the nomination package.

Selection Committee A three-person external selection committee will be appointed by CAREERS to review applications and recommend one (1) recipient.

Questions or Comments CAREERS: The Next Generation Head Office 18256-102Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5S 1S7 Phone: 780-426-3414, Toll free: 1-888-757-7172 https://www.careersnextgen.ca/

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CAREERS: The Next Generation Loraine Anderton Award of Excellence in Health Services Loraine Anderton - Biography

Loraine’s commitment to education and learning, and helping individuals find their fit in the working world, has been at the foundation of her own education and professional career. These principles made her a natural fit and supporter of CAREERS: The Next Generation.

Her education focused on human resources, including an Administrative Management Diploma from NAIT, a Personnel Administration Certificate from University of Alberta, and a Bachelor of Administration Degree from Athabasca University.

Loraine has taught in the post-secondary sector through the Department of Extension/Business Administration at both NAIT and Keyano College, sharing her knowledge and passion for the field of Human Resources.

Throughout her career she worked in various Human Resources capacities in both the private and public sector, including 14 years with the Northern Lights Health Region, serving as their Director and later Vice-President of Human Resources.

As co-Chair of the Health Regions’ Provincial Human Resource Leaders Steering Committee, Loraine recognized the opportunity for the development of a Health Careers Steam in the CAREERS: The Next Generation (CAREERS) portfolio of offered programs. The model envisioned involved health regions sponsoring placement for interested youth considering health careers. The Health Regions enthusiastically endorsed this concept, recognizing the value of mentored health internships in helping youth explore their future career paths in a meaningful way.

Loraine chaired the Health Regions’ Steering Committee that worked with CAREERS in development of the Health Careers Stream. CAREERS and the Health Regions then worked to secure the funding to ensure that this vision became a reality.

Since that time, countless youth have explored careers in health, supported by their dedicated mentors. Many of those interns have gone on to enjoy rewarding health careers.

CAREERS: The Next Generation comments at Celebration of Excellence:

“Loraine Anderton is an experienced human resources professional in the health sector. In her role as co-Chair of the Health Regions’ Provincial Human Resources Leaders Steering Committee, Loraine chaired the committee that worked with CAREERS to craft what is now our Health Services Youth Initiative. It is impossible to overstate the importance of her contributions in forming CAREERS’ Health Services program portfolio. It is in her honor that we award two outstanding mentors and two dedicated interns in the health services.”