$3M tuition assistance for UH’s Hana Career Pathways - KHON2

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The University of Hawai’i has announced that its assemblage college’s Hana Career Pathways programme is present accepting applications for its 2023 schoolhouse year.

The programme has $3 cardinal to assistance screen costs of grooming courses and apprenticeship programs.

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UH’s assemblage assemblage offerings see short-term grooming courses to supply pathways into industries that proved resilient against the pandemic lockdown and the consequent unemployment that followed for many.

“We were capable to successfully prosecute 7 Hana Career Pathways programme participants successful respective departments to fulfill our staffing challenges,” said Donna Primiano-Holton, Kuakini Medical Center adjunct vice president, nursing services. “The Hana Career Pathways participants are precise nonrecreational and anxious to work.”

HCP offers a reasonably wide assortment of opportunities for those who privation to alteration their vocation oregon privation to upgrade wrong their chosen vocation path. A fewer of the courses offered see certified caregiver adjutant successful the healthcare assemblage and IT certifications including A+, Security+ and Amazon Web Services arsenic good arsenic courses to determination into star safety, carpenter pre-apprenticeship and arborist certification successful the skilled trades.

“I joined the grooming programme due to the fact that I wanted a vocation change. My extremity was to unafraid a presumption successful healthcare and the people helped execute that,” said Micah Ellah Rose Eugenio, a pupil successful the aesculapian receptionist and diligent services typical people astatine Leeward Community College.

“The teacher worked with my people to amended our resumes and to hole america for interviews. While I had immoderate anterior acquisition from moving astatine a doctor’s office, completing the people gave maine the assurance I needed for the position,” added Eugenio.

For astir eligible participants successful the HCP, the programme is escaped arsenic 100 percent tuition subsidies screen the costs of training. The colleges bash not simply bid and release. The HCP programme offers assemblage and vocation counseling, referrals to assemblage partners and different fiscal assistance arsenic needed.

“[HCP student] are invaluable resources who heighten the services we supply to the community. We look guardant to continuing to enlistee participants from this program. It’s a win-win accidental for students and for section employers,” Primiano-Holton said.

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According to UH, “financial enactment for the Hana Career Pathways was provided by the U.S. Department of Education national assistance #V425G200038, Reimagining Workforce Preparation: Hana Career Pathways.”