U.S. Department of Education/Vocational training
High School Equivalency Program
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Helps you get a high school equivalency qualification and then move into a job, college or training, for people from farmworker families who left school. It can include a stipend, housing if the programme is residential, and help with childcare and transport.
Teaching toward a high school equivalency certificate, plus counselling, help finding financial aid, and placement into college, training, the military or work. The regulation also allows stipends, housing for residential programmes, and transport and childcare where needed. It states no amount for any of it.
Rolling, apply any time
What you need
The official page does not list required documents. Check the official page before you apply, since a provider can ask for paperwork it does not publish.
How to apply
- 1Find a HEP project, usually at a collegeProjects are run by universities and colleges rather than by a government office, and 206.10 requires them to do their own recruitment, so contacting one directly is the way in.
- 2Ask about the stipend and housing before you decide it is impossibleThe regulation allows stipends, housing for residential programmes, and transport and childcare. Those are the things that usually decide whether going back is possible at all, and they are rarely mentioned first.
Where this comes from
- Official source
- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-34/part-206/section-206.3
- Last checked by SCRN
- 2026-09-05Verified null days ago
- How it was verified
- Checked against the official page by a person at SCRN
- Source level
- Provider verifiedRead from the provider's own page.
- Deadline
- RollingNo national deadline. Projects are run by colleges and other organisations holding a grant, and they recruit directly, so the timing is set by the nearest project.
- How often
- annual