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The newsletter entitled "The Cultural Connection" had its beginning in 1998 with the appointment of a Cultural Diversity Task Force, The initial charge to the Task Force was to develop for faculty, advisors and preceptors a module that would facilitate recruitment and retention of minority students to the Delta Health Education Partnership's programs. The module would be based on the analysis of data from six focus groups comprised of 36 participants who represented the DHEP member institutions. DHEP member institutions are Alcorn State University, Arkansas State University, Delta State University Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioners, Louisiana State University Shreveport and University of Tennessee, Memphis.
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Total focus group participants were 15 students, 11 faculty, 6 preceptors, and 4 employers of certified nurse midwives, nurse, practitioners, and/or physician assistants. Of the focus group participants, 25 percent were African American and 75 percent were Caucasian. The focus group participants were interviewed in six homogenous 'focus groups and were asked the following questions:
1. Describe the characteristics of persons who should enter community based primary care provider programs?
2. What strategies should we use in recruiting students into these programs?
3. What strategies or approaches should be put in place to see those students through to completion of the program hi which they are enrolled'.)
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