Degrees & Certifications
Individual Stipend Program
This program provides replacement income to qualified participants for up to 8 hours per week with a lifetime maximum of $16,000. Stipend time is available for participants pursuing academic degrees at least 1 year in length and may be used for attending class and/or study time.
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Degree Levels
Degree Completion
Participants are able to apply previous college coursework, including academic classes taken through Ben U, towards completion of an Associate’s Degree at Coastline Community College. BHMT pays tuition directly to the school for 45 semester hours (approximately 15 classes), eliminating a large portion of out-of-pocket expenses and/or (student debt acquisition).
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Certifications
This program offers short-term certification programs in areas useful across the spectrum of clinical and non-clinical positions. BHMT has partnered with UC Berkeley Extension for Project Management Certification and New Horizons for Microsoft Office Specialist Certification and will continue to add providers. BHMT pays providers tuition directly, eliminating out-of-pocket expenses that may be a barrier for our population.
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Cohort Training
Regional Training Programs
Regional Training Programs are driven by KP’s regional workforce training and education needs as coordinated by Regional Workforce Planning and Development. These programs offer a broad range of support from wage replacement to tuition assistance and instructor fees. Program topics have included career preparation services and/or course prerequisites, nurse education, professional/technical education, career upgrades, and residency program pilots. These popular programs have a 92% completion rate as compared to the average 50% completion rate seen in many colleges.
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Multi-Regional Training Programs
MRTPs enable the Trust to leverage its resources to maximum benefit for the Trust and KP’s Regions:
- BHMT leverages its size for cost effective pricing with partner providers
- KP regions have access to quality best-practice training curriculum that is both ready to go when they are and is scalable to meet local demands
BHMT typically provides the didactic and certification portions of the training while the Regions coordinate any associated clinical rotations.
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Ben U Academic
Ben U Academic is a series of flexible web-based programs enabling employees, who have little or no experience with on-line learning, to ease into it one class at a time. BHMT Career Counselors, Academic Advisors and tutoring staff provide a supplemental support network to maximize our participants’ success.
COLLEGE PREP consists of non-college credit pass/fail courses that provide opportunities to brush up on math and IT skills, or to gain experience in medical terminology, anatomy & physiology, chemistry, and biology before they enroll in more demanding college-level courses.
GENERAL EDUCATION/LAB SCIENCE consists of college level courses that have been identified as common general education or pre-requisite components to nursing and allied health professional degree programs. These courses are most often heavily impacted at local brick-and-mortar academic providers sometimes with wait lists of 1 – 2 years. Ben U participants can take these courses when they need them and they are transferrable to other academic programs.
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Ben U Skills
IT/Soft Skills
This program provides thousands of online opportunities to increase knowledge and hands-on experience in software applications and business skills such as critical thinking, communication and analytical skills, collaborative teamwork, and more. Individual selections range from 10 minute task-specific courses and videos, to broader one-hour training opportunities.
New Horizons (new in November, 2014) offers additional opportunities to increase software knowledge and experience for those employees who prefer a blended or in-person learning environment.
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Language Programs
This program offers BHMT participants the ability to enhance their language skills – increasing both the effectiveness of employee communications among customer and work-team populations, and their delivery of culturally competent care.
English Proficiency
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QBS II Prep – Spanish
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Ben U Continuing Education
ONCOURSE LEARNING (formerly Gannett Education), HEALTHSTREAM, and ASRT provide thousands of online opportunities for clinical staff to obtain the continuing education units (CEUs) necessary to retain their individual license to practice – anytime, anywhere, and without having to use their KP Tuition Reimbursement (TR) benefit. These providers also offer test prep materials in almost 100 clinical specialty areas for those interested in moving their careers forward through specialty practice certification.
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Career Counseling
Career Counseling
The Career Counselors are an integral part of BHMT’s support system for its participants. Through individual appointments, workshops, career fairs, and webinars, the Career Counselors are available to all Trust-eligible employees to:
- Help guide employees to new career direction or to thrive within their current career
- Partner with employees to find appropriate career options within Kaiser Permanente
- Create individual development plans that incorporate internal and external resources for tuition reimbursement, training and education
- Help eliminate roadblocks to career resiliency, and identify the emotional support employees need to successfully move to the next level of their careers
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Academic Advising
Academic Advising works in conjunction with BHMT Career Counselors to provide individualized academic and financial advising. Advisors work with participants to determine how to successfully complete their chosen academic programs in the shortest time and the most financially efficient way possible. Academic advising is free to any BHMT-eligible person and is a mandatory component of the ISP program.
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