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Zujei Roman is a medical assistant at UCHealth, a Colorado employer offering free education opportunities for their employees. Photo: UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Zujei Roman is always on the go.<\/p>\n

By day, she is a medical assistant at UCHealth, working in the lung nodule and thoracic clinic<\/a> at Memorial Hospital Central.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s done a multitude of tasks in her current job and in a previous role as a medical assistant in vascular surgery. She checks blood pressure and pulse for patients, reviews their health history and confirms their allergies and whether they are still current on medications. She also helps physicians by removing sutures, staples and bandages for patients.<\/p>\n

After work, she\u2019s a full-time wife and mom to three children, ages 16, 14 and 8. Her family is extremely supportive; her husband and older kids are usually in the kitchen making dinner by the time she gets home. She enjoys a meal with them, then goes to college at night.<\/p>\n

Spanish is her first language<\/h2>\n

A native of Puerto Rico, Roman is working to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in behavioral science thanks to a free education program called the Ascend Career Program<\/a>, which is offered to UCHealth employees.<\/p>\n

Spanish is her first language, though she is fluent in English. She admits that the language barrier can be a struggle for her. Sometimes, she writes her college lessons in Spanish to better understand the concepts, and therefore, the lessons may take her a little longer to complete.<\/p>\n

Roman knows that earning a bachelor\u2019s degree will help her family and her community. She\u2019ll likely earn more money with a degree, though she is not necessarily motivated by a bigger paycheck.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s motivated by what she is modeling for her kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bachelors will just open up doors for me in general, and financially, it will be a big help for us. The biggest thing for me is that my kids see me pushing forward. Even though I may struggle with the language, they see me going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the first one in my family to go to college. And I\u2019m going to be the first one to get a bachelor\u2019s degree. So that is something that I am teaching them, to be persistent and never give up on their goals. I think that is more important than the financial aspect. Yes, that\u2019s great, but I am showing my kids to be determined.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Associate’s degree in applied science<\/h2>\n

Roman, who has an associate’s degree in applied science, enrolled in the Ascend program in August, and she takes classes from Bellevue University. UCHealth leaders have pledged to invest $50 million over the next four years to pay for educational programs for employees. Ascend is a partnership with Guild Education, a career opportunity company that partners with employers to help employees earn certificates and new degrees.<\/p>\n

UCHealth is the first hospital system in Colorado to launch a program with Guild. While the program helps employees, it also provides significant community benefits in helping to educate people to fill health care jobs at a time when there is a nationwide shortage of physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and other health care professionals.<\/p>\n

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Zujei Roman hopes to use her additional education to help break down mental health barriers in Hispanic communities in Colorado. Photo: UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Employees who work at least half-time for UCHealth qualify for Ascend and are eligible to apply for the program starting on their first day of work.<\/p>\n

Earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in behavioral science, Roman said, will help her community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will speak for myself, when it comes to my culture, people don\u2019t reach out about their mental health. That\u2019s considered being weak. I see that, and I believe we need more Spanish-speaking counselors to help people understand and bring knowledge about mental health to the Hispanic population,\u2019\u2019 Roman said.<\/p>\n

She said she believes that in Hispanic communities (and others), when it comes to mental health, \u201cwe just don\u2019t talk about it. We just keep moving forward, pretend everything is OK, and it is not healthy. It is something that I have learned in my own life and in my relationship with my husband. As a family, we are able talk about our feelings, our daily struggles and ask for help when need to without feeling ashamed or weak.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

UCHealth investing in behavioral health<\/h2>\n

She believes having a bachelor\u2019s degree in behavioral science will open up career opportunities for her at UCHealth. The health system announced in 2019 that it would invest $100 million over five years<\/a> to provide behavioral health care in primary care offices, expand access to virtual behavioral health appointments, and add new inpatient beds for behavioral health patients at University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roman said a co-worker and her husband strongly encouraged her to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, with having three kids and working, I just didn\u2019t think I would have the time to deal with everything. I thought it was going to be very stressful, and I didn\u2019t want the stress. So it took me like six months to make a decision,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Her co-worker kept pressing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said, \u2018look at it,\u2019 so I took a look to see what they offered. I loved the classes for behavioral health. They are very interesting to me,\u2019\u2019 said Roman.<\/p>\n

She has taken four of the 13 classes she needs to pass to earn the degree. Each class is six weeks long. She spends many evenings taking the online courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband is pretty great, and he encouraged me to go back to school. He\u2019s like, \u2018they\u2019re giving you this opportunity and not everyone has this available to them. You don\u2019t have to pay for it.\u2019 So I don\u2019t have to worry about it\u201d He\u2019s like, \u2018you should do it and I will support you.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

She said she is encouraging other employees to participate in the Ascend program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m doing it, and I have three kids and a full-time job and the language barrier, anybody can do it,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI think it\u2019s great because I don\u2019t have to worry about how I have to pay this off and I can continue to work hard to earn my degree.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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