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HOME HEALTH AIDE
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Cost: $1,299
Typical 昀椀nish time: 4-6 months
REGISTER
Home Health Aides provide assistance to elderly, disabled, ill, and mentally disabled persons who live in their
own homes or in a residential care facility. Some Home Health Aides work with families in which a parent
is incapacitated and small children need care. Others help discharged hospital patients who have relatively
short-term needs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the Home Health Aide is projected to be the
fastest growing occupation through 2024. Numerous job openings with excellent opportunities are expected.
Job opportunities will be prevalent in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, home care, long-term care
facilities, hospice and assisted living facilities. Home Health Aides can be in the form of paid employees
who come into the home for a few hours a day or who live in the home full time or can be family members or
friends of the resident.
This comprehensive program prepares students for a position as a Home Health Aide. Emphasis is on giving
personal care in a client’s home, communications, working with ill persons, basic human needs, eldercare,
nutrition, special diets, and home management. Many different types of individuals require assistance
in daily tasks, assistance with minor medical tasks, and companionship because they are ill, elderly, or
disabled in some way, may be of any age, and live at home or in a home-like residential facility. Home Health
Aides provide this assistance entirely or provide some of the care to allow family caregivers a respite. This
program will ensure students are prepared to provide a variety of essential services for their clients including
health care management and monitoring, assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) ranging from
bathing, dressing, eating, using the bathroom, housekeeping and laundry to medication reminders and/or
management, recreational activities and companionship, security and transportation.
Certi昀椀cation Opportunities
After completing this program, learners will have the opportunity to take the leading national/industry-recognized certi昀椀cation exam(s) essential to entry-level employment in this fast-growing 昀椀eld. (National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Certi昀椀ed Personal Care Assistant (CPCA).)
Optional Volunteer Externship Opportunity
Learners who complete this program are eligible to participate in an optional volunteer externship opportunity
with a local company/agency/organization whose work aligns with this area of study in order to gain valuable
hands-on experience. As learners progress through their eLearning program, an Externship Coordinator will
reach out to coordinate placement.
Additional documentation including health records, immunizations, drug-screening, criminal background checks, etc. may be
required by the externship facility.
Traditional college 昀椀nancial aid is not applicable for non-credit courses at this time.
