The Shirley Ware Education Center

With federal and local grants, SWEC has health & safety, hazardous materials and upgrade training for more than 1,100 healthcare workers throughout California.

 

Health and Safety Training
Long term care and homecare workers face unique challenges on the job - from repetitive stress and lifting injuries to combative clients and exposure to blood-borne pathogens. With grant funding from OSHA, 903 long term care and homecare workers received training to reduce job-related injuries and illnesses.

Workforce Investment Act
Some 40 students have graduated from the nursing programs at Rio Hondo College,College of the Canyons and Santa Monica College through a WIA grant for LVN to RN training in Southern California. The graduates were from a wide range of participating employers including Daughters of Charity’s Saint Francisco Hospital; CHW’s St. Mary, Northridge, and Community Hospital of San Bernardino; Western Medical Center; Anaheim, and various Southern California Kaiser facilities.