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Erica Poe

Hello All

My name Erica and I am currently receiving my Master’s in Healthcare Administration. I am pretty sure most of you are if you’re in this classJ. I have a background in working with mental health individuals and foster children. As I am a Regional Director at a not-for profit organization, my hopes is to one day lead a group of professionals in a more clinical setting. Lately I have been craving to get back to my roots working in mental health.

I honestly, do not have a clue about biostatistics, but if it is anything like math, I’m confident I will catch on to the material. By the end of this course, I am hoping to gain more knowledge and apply it to my career or daily life.

Every year I have to provide teenagers a life skill assessment. The assessment is done on a 1-5 skill, where one is rated as I do not know and 5 is rated as I definitely do know. This is to identify how much work is needed to prepare one for adulthood. This assessment is extremely important because many foster youths are not prepare for life after foster care and end up having a short life span. The measurements allow us to close the gap and provide resources to the families in preparing the youth for adulthood.

Looking forward to learning more about biostatistics and to how to use it in healthcare.