By CAROL CHANG<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n
Hawaii’s community colleges have reworked the Ready, Set, Grow career-track program and, with new grant sources, are introducing the Individualized Career Achievement Network (iCAN) this fall.<\/p>\n
“It helps bridge the educational gaps in our working population,” explained Roya Dennis, iCAN program director at Windward Community College, where the free, fast-track service already has shown encouraging results. The school plans to share this good news during an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and 14 in Hale Kuhina 114. (Fall session starts Aug. 27 and iCAN has open enrollment through Oct. 1.)<\/p>\n
Citing a unique partnership with eight local and federal sources, Dennis said: “What all this means to our potential students is we can offer a network of training and certification with little to no cost to the students … It’s designed to help them improve their reading, writing, math, data and computer skills in preparation for a new career.”<\/p>\n
Dennis lists two specific success stories on the Kaneohe campus:<\/p>\n
* A fast-food employee and mother of two who now is enrolled in WCC’s Certified Nursing Assistant program and aiming for her LPN license.<\/p>\n
* A security guard who achieved a Workforce Readiness Certificate and is now studying to earn his Marine Option Program certification, and maybe Aquaponics after that. “Without the fast-track and support of iCAN,” she said, “he may never have taken the step toward pursuing his lifelong dream of working on the ocean and taking care of the land.”<\/p>\n
For more information on iCAN and the open house, call 235-7381.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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