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Collaborative partnerships between Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) programs and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies build a foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency through healthcare training and individualized support services.
The HPOG program serves participants who are diverse in age, gender, native language, cultural background, and geographic location. Their challenges include few employment opportunities, financial stress, personal medical issues, and caring for dependent family members. Despite these challenges, with HPOG assistance, all of these individuals have taken the first steps on their chosen career paths in occupations such as nursing, health information, and laboratory technology. The healthcare field is enriched by the resilience and determination these new employees bring from their own experience.
Inger Barnes, District Board of Trustees of Pensacola State College, presented a Soft Skills Workshop titled "A Parallel Curriculum" at the 2013 Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), please visit the HPOG website.
Dorothee Harmon, Partner of Pima County Community College District, presented Secrets of a Successful Long-term College/OneStop Collaboration at the 2013 Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), please visit the HPOG website.
Rohina Behrmann, Full Employment Council, presented "From HPOG to Hired: Creating Employers who Become Stakeholders and Partners" at the 2013 Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG), please visit the HPOG website.
Roberta France, Schenectady County Community College, presented "Out of the Box: Creating Motivating Lessons to Simulate Critical Thinking in the Integrated CNA Classroom" at the 2013 HPOG Annual Grantee Meeting. For more information about HPOG, please visit the HPOG website.
This video highlights Kelly's journey through the Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) program. Kelly talks about the struggles she has overcome, and what inspired her to make it to graduation.
To learn more about the HPOG program, its grantees and its participants, please visit the HPOG website.
The 2015 Compendium of Success Stories captures inspiring journeys of program participants and showcases the transformations they experienced through HPOG. Grantees identified stories, with full consent from each individual participant to share her or his name and story. These accounts provide a small glimpse of the effect HPOG has had on its participants and bring to life the data collected about the HPOG program.