# 2007 grantees:

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# Honolulu Community College's Poina Nalu and Leeward Community College's Ho'oulu:

Honolulu Community College's Poina Nalu and Leeward Community College's
Ho\`oulu will provide instructional and support services to respective
populations while teaming to build a framework for transition to further
education and careers. **\$526,521**

**Castle High School's Health Careers Academy (E Ola Pono Project) and
Kapi'olani Community College's K_lia ma Kapi\`olani Project**: Castle
High School's Health Careers Academy (E Ola Pono Project) and Kapi'olani
Community College's K_lia ma Kapi\`olani Project is a health-related
consortia that will serve 95 Native Hawaiian career and technical
education students through this proposed collaboration between two
successful projects on the Island of O'ahu: The consortia partners will
provide instruction and support services to each of their targeted
Native Hawaiian student groups at their campuses and additionally
develop a pipeline of common transitional activities that help to
adequately prepare high school students to smoothly matriculate into the
college's health programs of study with minimal need for remediation.
**\$458,549**

**The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC), Wai\`anae
Health Academy, (WHA):** The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
(WCCHC), Wai\`anae Health Academy provides a spectrum of
community-college provided health courses to 124 unique Native Hawaiian
career and technical education students per year, (or 177 duplicate
students taking multiple classes). **\$422,459**

**Po\`okela Project of Maui Community College**: The Po\`okela Project
of Maui Community College (MCC) seeks to provide a Native Hawaiian
Instructional & Student Support Program for Career and Technical
Education (CTE) students. The Po‛okela Cohort: This component of
Po\`okela will offer direct academic support to a cohort of thirty-five
(35) Native Hawaiian students in Career and Technical majors. Student
cohort activities include academic advising, internships, and a variety
of instructional-based academic, career, and cultural development
opportunities. Ke Alahaka Summer Bridges: The project will develop the
academic and career aspirations of thirty-five (35) Native Hawaiian high
school juniors and seniors through summer bridge programs. The summer
bridge program model integrates academic rigor, personal, career and
educational development and cultural responsiveness. Using Career and
Technical Education as a vehicle, the goal of these bridges is to
motivate students to realize their potential and kuleana
(responsibility) as Native Hawaiians and to promote positive and
productive lifestyles. This program of study offers participants the
opportunity to choose an academic program; Biotechnology, Light, Color,
Optics, and Adaptive Optics; or Applied Business and Information
Technology1. **\$335,869**

**Hawai\`i Technology Institute's (HTI) Medical Assisting and Pharmacy
Technician certification programs**: Hawai\`i Technology Institute's
(HTI) Medical Assisting and Pharmacy Technician certification programs
project is designed to assist Native Hawaiian students in their pursuit
for entrance into allied health careers as medical assistants and
pharmacy technicians through enrollment and completion of Hawai\`i
Technology Institute's (HTI) Medical Assisting and Pharmacy Technician
certification programs. **\$309,345**

**Marimed Foundation**: Alu Like, Inc. and Marimed Foundation, a
consortium partnership for at-risk youth, expands and enhances
vocational instruction for 60 Native Hawaiian career and technical
education students ages 14-18. Marimed's "Kailana Model provides each
student with vocational instruction in three skill areas integrated
together as one experience: 1) Culinary Arts, 2)
Agriculture/Aquaculture, and 3) Marine Skills. As part of their
instruction, students assist to grow produce, fish in aquaculture tanks,
prepare food in their culinary arts classes and catering service, and
provision meals for voyages in their ship-based marine skills training.
Each skill area exposes them to a range of career pathways during their
6-9 month average treatment period, including detoxification from
chemical dependency and behavior stabilization. External evaluations of
the Kailana model have proven its effectiveness for students to get
drug-free and improve their behavior, while gaining employable skills,
earning high school credits, and reentering the community, either back
to their high schools, or with GED diplomas. They complete the
residential treatment with viable vocational certificates of completion
and job readiness skills for entry-level jobs in food service,
agriculture, and maritime industries. **\$247,915**

**Moloka'i Education Center's Native Hawaiian "Pookela Project**," (a
consortium partnership between Moloka\`i High School and Maui Community
College) will serve a total of 60 Native Hawaiian career and technical
education high school and college students and develop a set of joint
college classes to improve the transition into higher education and
careers. **\$264,664**

**Oihana Project for Native Hawaiian (NH) CTE students, and Hawai\`i
Community College (Haw CC), Native Hawaiian Digital Arts Program**: The
grant's consortium partners of Kaua\`i Community College's (Kauai
CC)\`Oihana Project for Native Hawaiian (NH) CTE students, and Hawai\`i
Community College (Haw CC), Native Hawaiian Digital Arts Program will
plan, pilot, and establish a new collaborative Learning Community
classes, co-instructed at each campus, that integrates classroom
instruction on Native Hawaiian concepts and values with hands-on
technology skills training. **\$386,847**