{"id":32599,"date":"2015-03-10T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T01:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32599"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T23:53:55","slug":"school-health-aides-receive-free-uh-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/10\/school-health-aides-receive-free-uh-training\/","title":{"rendered":"School health aides receive free <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> training"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-hnVu3HYNA\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a new training program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a>, school health aides across the state are receiving a higher level of support and training. Twenty school health aides serving <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> public schools recently graduated from a new training program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\">Kapi&#699;olani Community College<\/a>. They are part of the second cohort of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s School Health Aide (<abbr>SHA<\/abbr>) Level <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> Program. <\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi says, &ldquo;This is the first time we&#8217;ve had formal training for our school health aides. They are doing it tuition free. It&#8217;s great!&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 180,000 students in public schools in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> with 255 school health aides statewide. School health aides have a major impact on health promotion and disease prevention. The Department of Education currently requires a high school diploma, one year of experience working with youth and certifications in first aid and CPR for school health aides. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, and Departments of <a href=\"http:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/\">Health<\/a> (DOH) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiipublicschools.org\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Education<\/a> (DOE) began to collaborate for a higher level of support for school health aides. <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College&#8217;s nursing department developed a 75-hour curriculum, which includes an instructor&#8217;s visit to each of the school health rooms to evaluate the student&#8217;s level of competency as a school health aide. At the completion of the course, students receive a certificate of competency. The new curriculum helps to standardize training across the state. It has also opened new career pathways to health-related degree programs throughout the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> System. <\/p>\n<p>The first graduates of the School Health Aide Program completed the training in the summer of 2014. Jefferson Elementary School Health Aide Helena Diones was in that group and is working on becoming a certified nurses aide. Diones says, &ldquo;It has opened doors for me to look beyond being a health aide.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The DOH&#8217;s Joan A. Takamori, <abbr>DOE<\/abbr>&#8217;s Steve Shiraki and <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s <strong>Paulette Williams<\/strong> wrote the new school health aide curriculum. The plan is to train all health aides statewide by 2018. In addition, the hope is to have new health aides take the initial training for entry into <abbr>DOE<\/abbr> employment as a School Health Aide. <\/p>\n<p>Williams, who co-chairs <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s nursing department, says, &ldquo;The school health aides are there to provide an awesome service to the entire community and we at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College are proud that we&#8217;re able to be a part of this and to be able to share this curriculum with all of the community colleges throughout the state.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32604\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kapiolani-health-aide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kapiolani-health-aide.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kapiolani-health-aide-260x119.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School health aides serving <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> public schools graduated from a new training program at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College on March 6, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><abbr>SHA<\/abbr> program funding<\/h2>\n<p>Funding for the new school health aide training and curriculum was obtained through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doleta.gov\/taaccct\/\">Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doleta.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration<\/a>. <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Health Academy Dean <strong>Patricia O&#8217;Hagan<\/strong> wrote the grant for the <abbr>SHA<\/abbr> program, and is working with <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a> to deliver the curriculum. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>SHA<\/abbr> and Community Health Worker programs were awarded about $1 million out of the total training amount of more than $12 million. The grant monies are also being used to develop a <abbr>SHA<\/abbr> Level <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> Program and revision of curriculum for the Community Health Worker Program, which will also be provided to the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Community College<\/a> partners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School health aides across <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> are receiving a higher level of support and training in <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s School Health Aide program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[63,189,71,56],"class_list":["post-32599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-nursing","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32599"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148714,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions\/148714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}