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The ACC Educational Foundation works collaboratively with community partners to explore, pursue, develop and implement innovative pilot projects that align with and advance our mission and vision. These pilots allow us to test and refine new ideas and programming that help support those in need pursue the education opportunities and assistance they need to succeed in life.
The American Career College Educational Foundation launched a a pilot program with Casa Teresa in 2015-2016 to help new moms facing difficult circumstances achieve their high school equivalency.
The organization, which provides a home and support program for homeless, pregnant women 18 years of age and older, found that many clients they serve often do not have a high school diploma or credential. Internal efforts to provide twice-a-week tutoring and assistance was not generating the results they wanted. So they turned to the American Career College Educational Foundation and HSE Academies.
Since successfully launching the program we have been enrolling moms into our program, preparing them for their HSE exam and setting them up to take the test – all at no cost. To date, 100 percent of participants successfully completed our program and passed the HSE exam!
“We are delighted at how successful our collaboration has been with American Career College Educational Foundation in helping a number of our moms achieve their high school equivalency certificate,” said Maria Ayala, Career and Education Manager at Casa Teresa. “We look forward to sending more deserving students to their HSE Academies.”
The American Career College Educational Foundation is working with the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana to bring HSE Academies to a new dimension of teaching. Through our partnership, we translated our English curriculum entirely into Spanish curriculum offering an entire population of underserved communities the opportunity to achieve their HSE taught in Spanish.
The focus of this programming is to help community members with Spanish as their primary learning language to earn their HSE certificate. We provide the curriculum, expertise and funding for all of the instruction and cover the cost of the HSE exam.
Since launching the program in 2017, we have seen tremendous success with the Spanish program and are now a staple program offering at the Santa Ana Boys & Girls Club. Each year, we serve nearly 75 club members through the HSE Academy program.
“We believe that every community member we serve has the potential to do great things, and working with American Career College Educational Foundation is an opportunity to help them unlock that potential through education,” said Lupita Mena, Family Strengthening Coordinator with the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana.
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