What Is PACE?

Four courses in HCC's early childhood program have been redesigned in workshop formats. Each course consists of sixteen workshops that can be taught anywhere in the community by certified PACE trainers. Groups of workshops for each course are organized into content units. All of the PACE courses cover the same material as the courses offered on Oahu community college campuses.

What PACE Does

  • Makes training more accessible;
  • Converts non credit training to community college credit;
  • Meets formal training requirements for the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential (ED 105 Introduction To Early Childhood, ED 110 Developmentally Appropriate Practices: Birth-8 Years, ED 131 Early Childhood Development: Theory Into Practice, ED 140 Guiding Young Children in Group Settings);
  • Meets in-service training needs;
  • Starts participants on a certificate and degree program in the community college system.