Grayson County commissioners Tuesday accepted a software that will make it possible for the GC Overall health Office to provide some sophisticated schooling to just one of their own in exchange for an settlement to use that new certification at work for the county for three a long time.
GC Wellbeing Director Amanda Ortez instructed commissioners the agreement will allow for the Grayson County Well being Department’s Girls, Infants and Children Division to deliver an personnel, who satisfies the Texas WIC Dietetic Internship qualifications, and is approved into the method, by the upcoming 2023 internship course.
That course will operate from January through August of 2023.
To get that education compensated for by the point out, Ortez said the employee will have to promise to work for the county for an extra 3 a long time making use of the data in the GCHD. She sad the county has carried out this in the previous but at that time the perform motivation was only two decades. She stated the further calendar year will supply improved continuity for the GCHD.
Furthermore, Ortez said it is greatest that the county acquire benefit of this software now.
“Immediately after this 12 months, the (next) course will call for a master’s diploma in buy to enter. This time it calls for a bachelor’s in nutrition to enter the program,” she mentioned.