{"id":14838,"date":"2013-03-07T08:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=14838"},"modified":"2020-12-01T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:10:14","slug":"uh-program-offers-bridge-to-hope-to-welfare-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/uh-program-offers-bridge-to-hope-to-welfare-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> program offers Bridge to Hope to welfare recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5r_RqP8pzg\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Krystti Kim<\/strong>, a student at the <a href=:http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, always knew she wanted to go to college. But things definitely got more complicated when she found out she was pregnant, right after high school.<\/p>\n<p>A program for welfare recipients called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/bridgetohope\">Bridge to Hope<\/a> has helped her juggle her family, work and school responsibilities. And it is even having an impact on her 5-year-old daughter, Heizol.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She sees me going to school, she sees me working, she feels that she can do the same,&rdquo; explains Kim. &ldquo;She feels that she wants to become what I become because she sees me doing it every day.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>The program helped Kim find work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/childrenscenter\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Children&#8217;s Center<\/a>, which works perfectly with her plan of becoming an early childhood educator.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love kids. It just seems like I fit,&ldquo; says Kim of her job in child care. &ldquo;They get along with me well and I just kind of grew a passion for it.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bridge to Hope is helping her realize that passion, and she&#8217;s not the only one. Across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/campuses\">10 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campuses<\/a>, the program has helped over 500 students pursue their college dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Students participating in Bridge to Hope are low income, often single parents, most of them are women&#8211;97 percent of our participants are women&#8211;and they are driven and excited about pursuing education as a way for them to be able to support their families,&ldquo; explains Bridge to Hope <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Systemwide Coordinator Teresa Bill.<\/p>\n<p>With Bill at the helm, Bridge to Hope was established in 2000 to help people like Kim and the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/offices\/op\/csw\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Commission on the Status of Women<\/a> played a key role. They joined forces with community organizers and went to lawmakers to demand higher education opportunities for welfare recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a brighter economic future for hundreds of families.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without Bridge to Hope I think I really would be trying to shuffle school and work and my daughter and, I would be lost,&ldquo; says Kim.<\/p>\n<p>糖心Vlog官方 Bridge to Hope online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/bridgetohope\">hawaii.edu\/bridgetohope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridge to Hope, a <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> program for welfare recipients, helps students juggle family, work and school responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[314,947],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-bridge-programs","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131504,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions\/131504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}