Hospital Employee Education and Training (HEET) Grant

The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) invites Washington state community and technical colleges to apply for the HEET funding. Colleges must develop proposals in collaboration with at least one healthcare employer and one labor partner to receive funding. 

The purpose of the HEET Grant is to:

• Enhance access to college education for hospital workers.
• Lead to increased capacity of the college system in nursing and other high demand health care fields.
• Bring greater diversity to the health care workforce.
• Build a stronger labor/management, healthcare industry and college partnerships to leverage public and private investment.

Grant funds may be used for:

• Curriculum development or modification
• Equipment needed to train incumbent workers
• Creating systems to grant credit for prior learning
• Sustaining labor, management and college partnerships
• Support for students, program recruitment and retention
• Symposium to share/learn best practices in teaching methodologies and curricula evaluation

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2018-2019

Important dates

Milestones	Key Dates
Application available	March 1, 2018
Application deadline	April 12, 2018
Funds available/grant start	July 1, 2018
Mid-year project evaluation due	Jan. 18, 2019
Final project evaluation due	July 19, 2019

Grant resources and guidelines

• FY19 HEET Guidelines

 

2017-2018

Important dates

Milestones	Key Dates
Application available	March 2, 2017
Application deadline	April 13, 2017
Funds available/grant start	July 1, 2017
Mid-year project evaluation due	Jan. 19, 2018
Final project evaluation due	July 20, 2018

Grant resources and guidelines

• FY18 HEET Guidelines

Technical assistance

HEET Technical Assistance webinar recording (requires Blackboard Collaborate download)
The recording contains audio and video of the technical assistance session SBCTC hosted.