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After receiving a $3.2 million grant from the Deerbrook Charitable Trust, the American Association of Community Colleges’ Plus 50 Initiative is set to expand to 100 campuses by 2015, tripling the program’s size. Chosen community colleges will receive grant funds to train students 50 and older for jobs in health care, education or social service professions.

Did you know that over half – 57 percent – of the more than 10 million nonprofit jobs in the U.S. are in health care?

And that health care will generate millions of new wage and salary jobs between 2008 and 2018, more than any other industry?

Priscilla Santiago of Bridgeport, Conn., is a mother of three, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of five. At 63, she was also one of the oldest students to receive a bachelor's degree from Post University in 2011. Santiago left high school at 16 after a devastating sexual assault. Laid off from her job at age 59, she reinvented her life. She spoke with Huff/Post50 editor Laura Rowley.