SAMPLE · THE FULL PATH
A cohort, all the way through
Two years, twelve sessions, one family. Students meet Mr. Flores in their first year and his wife in their second. By the end they are not observing a care team. They are the care team, and they are choosing a direction.
2 years · 12 student sessions · 8 profession workshops · Community sessions set with each school · Juniors and seniors
YEAR 1 · MR. FLORES
48, agricultural worker, coaches his kid’s soccer team. His year is about what long hours and few options quietly cost a body: stress, an old injury, the wrong fuel, and finally his mouth warning about everything else. He has no diagnosis when the year starts.
YEAR 2 · MRS. FLORES
46, school-cafeteria aide who also cleans houses, the family’s organizer, loves her garden and her church. Her year escalates further than his: an infection, new medications, and a health scare she recovers from. The arc stays hopeful throughout.
WHY THE SECOND YEAR IS A DIFFERENT PERSON
Year 1 ends on a question: when the body’s defenses are down, what happens next? Year 2 opens with the answer, in Mrs. Flores. One household, two years, one connected story.
SIDE BY SIDE
The same shape, a harder case
Both years run the identical rhythm: a September orientation, four profession workshops, and an April case conference. What changes is how interconnected the medicine gets, and how much the students are expected to carry.
| Month | Year 1 · Mr. Flores | Year 2 · Mrs. Flores |
|---|---|---|
| September | Orientation. Meet the patient. | Orientation, built for returning and new students together. Returners become near-peer mentors. |
| October | Mental health | Infection control and public health |
| November | Physical movement health | Pharmacy |
| No sessions in December or January, in either year | ||
| February | Nutrition | Nursing |
| March | Oral health | Physician assistant |
| April | Case conference. Students become his care team. | Capstone. Students decide how they would keep supporting the family, and which field they will pursue. |
On ordering. Professions run from the easiest to connect with personally toward the most integrative. The last workshop of Year 2 only works because the students have two years of the family’s history to read.
HOW THE THINKING RISES
The same ladder, climbed higher each time
Every workshop climbs all six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, from remembering to creating. What changes across two years is not the levels, it is how much the student is carrying when they reach the top ones, and how little scaffolding is left underneath them.
AT EACH APRIL
The whole session flips to synthesis
The case conferences introduce nothing new. Students work as one care team, on paper, on a year of evidence they gathered themselves, and put their plan in front of the other teams.
ACROSS THE TWO YEARS
From one system to every system
Year 1 looks at one body system per workshop. By the end of Year 2, students are asked to reason across every system at once, on a two-year record. Same level on the ladder, far more weight on it.
All five RULER skills, twice over
Each year covers the complete set of social-emotional skills, one per session, in a different order and attached to different situations. A student who does both years practices every one of them twice, and the second time it is somebody else’s crisis rather than the one they already know.
WHEN EACH OUTCOME COMES FORWARD
Two outcomes wait for the second year
Five of our seven program outcomes run from the first month: professional identity, networking and mentorship, communication and health literacy, clinical reasoning, and simulated clinical skills. Two need a student who already has skills and history behind them, so they come forward once that is true.
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Comes forward in the second year, once a student has enough skill behind them that noticing a need in their neighborhood turns into something they can actually act on.
LEADERSHIP
Anchors the end of each year and runs all through the second one. It is the outcome the other six are quietly building toward, and it is the reason the program is two years rather than one.
THE END OF IT
What a graduate can do
The capstone is not a test. It is the moment the program stops being about the Flores family and starts being about the student.
THE CLOSING IDEA OF THE WHOLE PROGRAM
You have followed one family through everything. You are not just watching anymore. You are the care team, and you are deciding which link you want to be, and how you will come back home to serve.
BY THE END, A STUDENT CAN
- Read a two-year patient history across every body system and reason to what is actually going on.
- Work as one member of an interdisciplinary team, and review another team’s plan.
- Perform foundational simulated skills across several health fields, coached and corrected.
- Teach a health skill to an adult, in that adult’s language, and have it stick.
- Present their own work to their own community.
- Name a health field they want to pursue, and say why. Sharing that aloud is invited, never required. It is completely okay to still be exploring.
THE SEED, MADE LITERAL
Three objects, two years apart
At the first orientation, every student is handed a single seed. At the end of Year 1 they receive a planter for it. At the Year 2 capstone, that seed comes back to them as a grown plant, alongside a two-year certificate.
The organization is named for this. A student arrives as a seed and grows toward becoming a sower who returns to serve the community that raised them.
A note on how this ends
Both patients recover. The two-year arc escalates, but it is built to land hopefully, and the capstone is about the students’ future rather than a patient’s decline. Reflection can surface real feelings, so a counselor stays available, and no student is ever required to share their path aloud.
This page is an overview. The session designs, learning objectives, standards crosswalk, assessment instruments, facilitator materials and evidence base are our team’s work product. They go to partner schools in the Partnership Packet, under agreement, and are not published on this site.
SEE IT UP CLOSE
One workshop, start to finish
Twelve sessions is the shape. This is what a single one of them actually looks like, all four phases of it.