FSCJ, Raines partner on DCPS’ first in-school EMT program, championed by late principal Vincent Hall

Raines High School students will be able to train as emergency medical technicians through a new partnership between Florida State College at Jacksonville and Duval County Public Schools.RELATED: ‘Champion for our students’: Raines High School principal passes away after nearly 30 years working with DCPSThe program is the first EMT program housed inside a Duval County public high school, said Dr. Monica Franklin, FSCJ’s dean of health sciences.“Here in Duval County, these students will not have to be transported from their school,” Franklin said. “They will get all the benefit of the program right at Raines High School.”The program aims to prepare nearly a dozen students to become certified EMTs by the time they graduate. Franklin said the effort is intended to help address a shortage of health care workers.“We know that there’s a tremendous shortage of health care workers, and that is really our goal—to help fulfill the needs of the workforce,” she said.The announcement comes after th