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 Hospital Employee Education and Training (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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2020-2021

Important dates

Milestones	Key Dates
Application available	February 27, 2020
Application deadline	April 9, 2020
Funds available/grant start	July 1, 2020
Mid-year project evaluation due	Jan. 15, 2021
Final project evaluation due	July 16, 2021

2019-2020

Important dates

Milestones	Key Dates
Application available	February 28, 2019
Application deadline	April 11, 2019
Funds available/grant start	July 1, 2019
Mid-year project evaluation due	Jan. 18, 2020
Final project evaluation due	July 19, 2020

Grant resources and guidelines

• FY20 HEET Guidelines 
• List of 2019-20 HEET Grantees and Projects