The Dhont Family Foundation Strengthens the Healthcare Workforce

Hope Builders extends its sincere appreciation to The Dhont Family Foundation for helping disadvantaged young adults access pathways to healthcare careers. Their recent grant is helping young people gain the training, skills, and support they need to move toward more secure futures for themselves and their families.

For Crystal, finding that stability felt out of reach. She was unemployed and struggling to find a job that offered enough hours and pay to help support her low-income family. Through Hope Builders’ Clinical Medical Assisting Program, she found a future she could build toward. She mastered skills such as taking vital signs, performing blood draws, administering injections, and conducting EKGs, and built a passion for using those skills to help those in her local community.

After completing her training, Crystal was hired as a medical assistant at Families Together of Orange County Community Health Center, where she now works full-time earning $23 an hour. She is building a career in healthcare while providing compassionate support to patients in her community.

“Without this opportunity, I would likely still be unemployed and struggling to support my family. We now have a sense of relief and a brighter financial future.”

Crystal’s journey shows the Hope Builders Effect in action. Her new career is helping ease the financial challenges her family once faced, while also adding a skilled and compassionate healthcare worker to our region.

The Dhont Family Foundation is helping make opportunities like Crystal’s possible, connecting young adults with the training they need to build careers and creating impact that extends beyond one person to families and the broader community.