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Health and Student Service Workers

Health and Student Service Workers perform a wide variety of jobs that improve and protect students' health and welfare.
Nurse

HEALTH AND STUDENT SERVICE MEMBERS

  • keep students healthy
  • remove barriers to education
  • counsel students and families who need help 

CAREERS:

  • LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES
  • NURSES’ AND HEALTH AIDES
  • HEALTH TECHNICIANS
  • FAMILY AND PARENT SERVICES AIDES
  • COMMUNITY WELFARE SERVICES WORKERS
  • NON-MANAGERIAL SUPERVISOR

Fast Facts

2%

of the total K-12 ESP workforce

46

average age

88%

are female

29%

are college graduates

Learn More about Health and Student Services ESPs

Learn More about ESPs

“Our work is more than bleeding and band-aids...Making a difference in students' lives is the reason we are school nurses. Helping students with their chronic illnesses now is so important, so when they become young adults/adults they have a solid foundation on how they need to live their life. It’s about being someone a student or their family knows they can turn to.”  

- School Nurse

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