{"id":89920,"date":"2019-02-10T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89920"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:40:08","slug":"hinet-helps-hungry-students-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/10\/hinet-helps-hungry-students-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"High-impact <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> helps hungry students succeed"},"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_91956\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjgJU_LJUgY?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"High-impact HINET helps hungry students succeed\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>More than 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> students at four campuses are receiving assistance that can total more than $4,700 a year for food, transportation, books and other expenses through a workforce education and training program called <abbr>HINET<\/abbr>, which stands for <a href=\"https:\/\/hinethawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Nutrition Employment and Training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh my gosh, the <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> program is awesome!&rdquo; exclaimed <strong>Deedee Crowton<\/strong>, a second-semester veterinary technology student at <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>, who will be the first in her family to graduate from college. &ldquo;If it wasn\u2019t for them, I wouldn\u2019t be able to stay in school.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Leomana Turalde<\/strong> serves as safety officer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/project-imua\/\">Project Imua<\/a> student team that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/17\/students-build-rocket-nasa-launch\/\">designing and building a rocket for a <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> competition<\/a>. He receives assistance for food and gas through <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> and he tries to let other students know about the help the program provides.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The biggest issue I feel like I had was worrying about how am I going to eat, how am I going to stay healthy, how am I going to get places? <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> helped me just relax&#8230;we got help to cover food. We don\u2019t gotta stress about that. I can focus on just my schoolwork,&rdquo; Turalde said.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HINET<\/abbr> was developed by the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Human Services in partnership with Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> and started operations in 2015 as a pilot at the <span aria-label=\"Kaneohe\">K&#257;ne&#699;ohe<\/span> campus. The <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Agriculture matches 50 percent of non-federal funds spent in support of <abbr>HINET<\/abbr>. As more state and philanthropic dollars are invested in <abbr>HINET<\/abbr>, more <abbr>USDA<\/abbr> dollars will flow to the program, helping to reach more students.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for <abbr>HINET<\/abbr>, students must enroll at a <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> community college and take at least six credits in an approved program. They must also qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (<abbr>SNAP<\/abbr>), formerly called food stamps, and <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> can help with the paperwork. Importantly, students in the <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> program are able to substitute their college education and training for <abbr>USDA<\/abbr>&#8216;s 20-hour weekly work requirement.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HINET<\/abbr> Consortium Manager <strong>Kathy Helfrich<\/strong> explained, &ldquo;We help them to succeed because if we can train them to do a program like our vet tech program or our certified nurse aide program, which pays decent money when they get out of school, then they will not longer be eligible for <abbr>SNAP<\/abbr>. They\u2019ll be able to pay for food on their own.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The best evidence that <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> helps comes from the students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernadette Rose Garrett<\/strong> earned her associate in arts degree from Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> in the fall of 2018, after chairing the affordability committee for the Associated Students of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. She said the welcoming <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> staff helped break through her initial hesitation to ask for help.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having that <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> opportunity, it just gave me a way to live,&rdquo; Garrett said. &ldquo;It gave me a way to not stress out so much about where my next meal was going to come from.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By fall 2019, the <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> program will expand to six <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College campuses statewide and to a seventh the next academic year. Current and prospective community college students are encouraged <a href=\"https:\/\/hinethawaii.org\/\">to visit the <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> website<\/a> or go to a <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> office on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Crowton said, &ldquo;<abbr>HINET<\/abbr> is there for you. <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> wants you to succeed. <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> will help you every step of the way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Turalde added, &ldquo;I think the biggest thing <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> helped me with is being confident in my future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Support <abbr>HINET<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p>Donations to support <abbr>HINET<\/abbr> will be matched by 50 percent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/HINET\">can be made online to donate via credit card<\/a> or call (808) 956-8849 if you wish to make a credit card gift over the phone.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/system-hinet-crowton-d.jpg\" alt=\"Deedee Crowton working at a computer\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/system-hinet-crowton-d.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/system-hinet-crowton-d-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community College students are receiving assistance that can total more than $4,700 a year for food, transportation, books and other expenses through a workforce education and training program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[951,1513,73,71,947,56,66],"class_list":["post-89920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-food","tag-hinet","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920","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=89920"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124629,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920\/revisions\/124629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}