Gain the extensive knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the healthcare field and deliver quality home care as a home healthcare aide.
When you take part in Cal State East Bay’s Home Health Aide Certificate Program, you’ll be joining a comprehensive program that prepares you to give quality, personal care in a client's home with an emphasis on understanding basic human needs, eldercare, working with illnesses, nutrition, special diets, and home management. With our program, you'll gain the confidence to provide quality in-home care and become an essential part of a diverse community.
Preparation for the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Certified Personal Care Assistant (CPCA)
Taught by faculty with extensive experience in home healthcare
Are you ready to deliver critical healthcare services and make a difference in the lives of your community? As a home healthcare aide, you’ll be part of a rewarding profession that provides assistance to elderly, disabled, ill, and mentally disabled persons who live in their own homes or in a residential care facility.
From working with families in which a parent is incapacitated and small children need care to helping discharged hospital patients with short-term needs, you’ll find a variety of job opportunities as a home health aide. Whatever path you choose, you’ll be equipped for success in the rapidly growing home health care field.
Employment of home health and personal care aides is projected to grow 40.2 percent from 2022 to 2032 in California and 32.5 percent in the United States.
—Labor Market Analytics – Lightcast
Increasing employment opportunities in health care over the next several years will be due in part to the state’s aging population, the addition of over five million to those covered by health insurance as a result of the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, and technological advances in health care.
—EDD, State of California
Individual and family services are the primary employer for home health and personal care aides followed by home health care services and retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly.
—Labor Market Analytics – Lightcast
Equipped with your certificate from an accredited university, you’ll be qualified to work in a variety of settings, including: hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, homes, long-term care facilities, hospice, and assisted living facilities. Throughout the program, you’ll learn to provide a safe and nurturing environment for individuals and families in need. Whether you want to work as an aide who comes into the home for a few hours a day or as someone who lives in the home full time, you can be confident that you’ll have the knowledge and skills to properly care for individuals in a variety of settings and at any capacity.
After completing Cal State East Bay’s Home Health Aide Certificate Program, you’ll be able to:
The Home Health Aide Certificate Program is offered in the evenings in a classroom setting at CSUEB’s Concord Center.
In order to be issued a certificate of completion for this course, students must pass the class with 70 percent or better. Students will be prepared to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Certified Personal Care Assistant (CPCA) national exam.
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If you have a high school diploma or GED equivalent, you’re invited to enroll in the Home Health Aide Certificate Program.
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Area of study: Home Health Aide Certificate
Ideal for: Individuals interested in careers in healthcare as home health aides.
Program format: In-person (held at CSUEB’s Concord Center)
Number of courses: 1 course
Program length: 80 hours
Tuition cost: $1,499 (Tuition fees are subject to change at any time.)
Please let us know if we can answer any questions about the Home Health Aide program. Many answers can also be found in our online Support Center.