Caregiving

Community College Grants Announced

The Community College Caregiver Training Initiative is intended to raise national awareness both of:

the critical need for caregiver training
the central role that community colleges can play in providing this training

On July 12, 2007, The Caregiving Project for Older Americans and MetLife Foundation announced the winners of a nationwide competition among community colleges for development of innovative in-home caregiver training programs. Twelve community colleges, selected from over 75 applicants, will receive up to $25,000 to either establish new home-based caregiver training programs or enhance programs that already exist for professional and family caregivers.

“Community colleges play a vital role in educating in-home caregivers as our country faces an increasing need for quality, accessible, affordable care,” says Dr. Robert N. Butler, president and CEO of the ILCUSA and co-director of The Caregiving Project for Older Americans. “The colleges selected represent the variety of innovative training programs that promise to produce quality in-home caregivers.”

Winning Colleges Represent Diverse Group of Students

The winning community colleges serve a diverse group of students including both urban and rural communities and minority populations. Award recipients include schools in the states of: Arkansas, Kansas, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

To see the full list of winners, click on our Related Links, below.

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