8/26 - 10/4 - National ACRE Training

ACRE Employment Services Certificate with an Emphasis on Customized Employment

Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators

ACRE

Facilitated by Penn-Mar Human Services Consulting. 

It is recommended that all Provider DSPs complete the

ACRE training before taking the APSE CESP exam.   

August, September, October 2024 

Monday, 8/26 - Tuesday, 8/27 - Wednesday, 8/28 - Tuesday, 9/3

Friday, 9/6 - Tuesday, 9/24 - Wednesday, 9/25 - Thursday, 9/26

Monday, 9/30 - Friday, 10/4

All sessions are virtual from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST

Registration Fee: $500 Per Registrant

All registrants will receive access to the course materials one week prior to the first ACRE training session

Earn your ACRE certificate of achievement for supported employment services and elevate your career! To receive a certificate an “ACRE Certificate of Achievement”, participants must attend all ten sessions (40 hours of training) and successfully complete all activities and field-based assignments.  Several field assignments include leading an employment seeker at your organization through the employment process as taught in class.

Session 1-2 (8/26, 8/27)

Application of Core Values and Principles of Practice
This 2-day session focuses on the history, core values, and principles of Supported Employment.  This includes the rights and responsibilities of people receiving services, ethical guidelines, and philosophy of community employment, as well as disability legislation, funding, regulations, and policies impacting people with disabilities.

Session 3-5 (8/28, 9/3, 9/6)

Assessment & Career Planning
This 3-day session focuses on individualized assessment and employment/career planning.  Discovery is introduced as the foundation of career planning and participants will learn how to design and implement a discovery process for employment seekers.  This includes learning how to gather information about the employment seeker (skills, interests, community connections, conditions for success) while encouraging the employment seeker’s active participation and decision-making throughout the career planning process.  Participants will have an opportunity to complete each step of the discovery process with an employment seeker, learn how to facilitate a customized employment planning meeting, and develop a vocational profile.  Trainees will learn the basics of self-employment/entrepreneurship, the impact of wages on disability benefits, the availability of work incentives, and how to make referrals to other agencies for assistance.     

Session 6-8: (9/24, 9/25, 9/26)

Community Research & Job Development
This 3-day session provides an overview of customized employment and uses the information obtained about the employment seeker during the discovery process to create a Job Development plan.  Participants will learn how to develop relationships with businesses, assist employment seekers with the job search process, develop employment proposals, understand LEAN process improvement, and negotiate a win-win job match based on the employment seeker’s ideal conditions of employment and the needs of a business.  Participants will have an opportunity to complete each step of the job development process with an employment seeker.    

 Session 9-10: (9/30, 10/4)
Workplace & Related Supports
This 2-day session focuses on developing workplace supports with an overview of systematic instruction.  Participants will learn how to do an effective job analysis, and implement job training, fading plans, and strategies for developing comprehensive workplace supports.   Participants will learn creative strategies to ensure the employee enters the job in the most inclusive manner possible and help them to maximize their job performance and meet the expectations of the workplace.