I secured a $500,000 state grant to build an emergency medical services training facility at Apollo High School, and it opened this year. CentraCare donated an ambulance.

Students can now earn an EMT certification at sixteen or seventeen and walk into a good job — or keep going toward nursing or medical school. The training happens where the students already are, which is the whole point.

A student can earn an EMT certification at sixteen and walk into a good job.