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Welcome to CareTown

Start here. CareTown is an imaginary healthcare town where each stop helps you explore real-world healthcare roles, ask better questions, and collect clues about what may fit you. Its places, characters, and story situations are fictional.

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How CareTown is organized

Course

The full CareTown healthcare career-exploration experience.

Module

The Welcome experience or one healthcare pathway, such as Nursing Neighborhood.

Unit and activity

A unit is a shorter lesson inside a module. An activity is one task inside that unit.

Your instructor may ask you to complete an activity on your own, with a partner or small group, or as a whole class. The learning goal stays the same.

How to complete this module

Website

Start Now

Begin on this page to learn what CareTown is and why you do not have to choose a whole future today.

Workbook

Open Workbook

Use the Welcome workbook pages for the CareTown intro, pathway menu, and first-stop notes.

Instructor

Instructor Welcome

Your instructor will use this webpage and the separate student workbook to introduce the course and help the class choose a pathway stop.

Resources

Related real-world roles

CNA or nurse assistant, phlebotomist, EMT, pharmacy technician, medical assistant, sterile processing technician, community health worker, and peer support worker are examples of real-world occupations, not CareTown story characters and not promises of current job openings. They are included to help you compare roles and ask better questions. CareTown uses California examples as regional context; program names, training rules, openings, and employer requirements can change. If you may study or work in another state, verify that state's current licensing, certification, and transfer rules with the official board or program.