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(Workforce Development) Our training programs are designed to provide job training and career development that is relevant and in-demand, allowing participants to gain new skills, earn industry standard certifications, and access to higher paying jobs.

Lift HI Foundation offers tailored training-to-good job pathways, in partnership with local employers like Hawaii Pacific Health, that make it easy for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (ALICE) households to participate. We proactively recruit applicants within communities, geographic or otherwise, with high levels of ALICE households. Our training timetable is a free, full-time training program. Two-fifths of our training focuses on skills such as goal-setting, culture, communication, and managing conflict among others. We currently provide “income replacement” (equivalent to the minimum wage). We partner with employers who are engaged actively throughout training who help with all or part of technical/clinical training, opportunities to visit and shadow in a clinical setting, pre-graduation job interviews, and preferred job consideration. We also contract former graduates to assist our graduates in navigating their new jobs and life.

(Touch a Heart) We transform the lives of those facing barriers to employment by providing vocational training in a healing and nurturing environment, creating pathways to job placement. We partner with other nonprofit organizations that have underutilized commercial kitchens to create a food services training and apprenticeship program. These kitchens serve as our vocational training work sites and is also where we operate our social enterprises. Food Services Training Program 8-week program offering hands-on culinary training, field trips and guest speakers, hard and soft skills development, Hawaii Department of Health Food Handler Certification training, resume writing assistance and interview preparation, and job placement services Apprenticeship Program empowers graduates to advance their skills and learning through Baker’s Heart bakery with on-the-job training in production, customer service and sales We also have several for-profit businesses enterprises supporting our non-profit including Kupuna & Family Meals, Baker’s Heart baked products, and Touch A Heart Catering