Warsaw Area Career Center Intern: Corbin Johnston
Parents: Julie Johnston and Scott Johnston
Employer: Grace Village Retirement Community
Student’s Job Title: Therapy Intern
Supervisor: Amanda Stoffel, lead therapist/speech-language pathologist
What are your job responsibilities: I help the physical therapist and other therapists with anything they need.
How has this position been helpful to you? This job has taught me that not all work places are the same when in the same field.
What have you learned? I have learned to be more vocal with the people in the work place.
How is this job preparing you for the future? This job is allowing me to understand that I may not want to go into this field, but gives an idea of what it is about if I would come back to it in the future.
What do you like about this job? I like being able to meet new people by talking to the therapists and the patients.
What Career Center classes have you taken in your pathway? Medical Terminology and Principles of Healthcare
Your Career and College Plans: I plan to go to Indiana University to study marketing in 2024.
Supervisor Input:
What duties does this student perform? Assisting therapists with therapy tasks with patients, cleaning and organizing equipment, filing, odds and ends tasks that therapists need assistance with.
How is this job preparing this student for the future? Students who are thinking about entering the fields of physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech therapy will get experience working with therapists and job shadowing experience in all three fields.
What do you think of the WACC Work-Based Learning program? I think it is an excellent program to help students learn basic skills in an area that they are interested in pursuing as a career before they would begin paying for college courses in a field that they may or may not end up liking.