Unemployment and becoming lpn/rn

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currently i'm on unemployment in new york after getting fired from my job at capital one bank for not having a ged or diploma while i'm on unemployment they will pay $6,000 towards any program i choose to better myself.honestly my dream is to become an rn but that takes time and i need to support my mother sister and me. so i got into a cna class that unemployment will pay for that starts in september but to start off i would prefer going to any lpn program full time, theres a class that starts in march at boces for 13 months that cost $16,000 if there was a sooner program i would join.. what should i do people?? should i waste the grant of 6 thousand on the cna program that only cost $1,400 when i wouldnt be one for long or should i sit around and wait to take the lpn program in march even though im making it,but scraping by now??

do any of you know any lpn programs that start sooner?? right now i'm goin to an external high school class to get my diploma it last 5 weeks.. any advice would be great thanks!!!