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The 2013 Compendium of Promising Practices captures some of the unique or innovative practices that grantees have identified as strategies that are important to their programs.

Jennifer Boblitt-Johnson, Gateway Community and Technical College, presented "Wrap Around Approach to Credential Achievement" at the 2013 Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), please visit the HPOG website.

Larry Meneses, Suffolk County Department of Labor, presented Motivating TANF Clients at the 2013 Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), please visit the HPOG website.

Jenna Summerhill was selected to speak at the 2013 Health Professional Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Annual Grantee Meeting on November 6th. Jenna shared her personal struggles and explains the positive impact the HPOG program has had on her life.

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Low reading, math, and other adult basic skills represent a principal barrier to recruitment and success of healthcare education programs. To address this issue, Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) programs should provide innovative approaches to adult basic skills education so that lower-skilled individuals can enroll in the program and go on to enter and complete post-secondary training.

The HPOG program offered a public webinar showcasing innovative approaches to adult basic skills education on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Meredith Larson and Heidi Silver-Pacuilla from the U.S. Department of Education presented findings from an international assessment of basic skills and discussed promising instructional models for providing adult basic skills education. Julie Strawn from Abt Associates discussed why innovative basic skills strategies are critical to success in healthcare training programs and highlighted key research findings that point toward promising strategies.

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on June 20, 2014.

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on May 30, 2014.

This blog post was published in the original HPOG Blog on October 30, 2014.

As a mother of five, Misty Morgan needed help supporting her family. Through HPOG’s PHOCAS program, she gained the career training and resources needed to succeed.

This video explores the role of the Navigator in guiding HPOG participants through barriers to individualized healthcare career pathways at Health Workforce for the Future in King County, Washington.