The Providers’ Council is turning 50 in 2025! In celebration of this milestone, the Council will be running a series of Throwback Thursday posts throughout the year commemorating some of the Council’s most important milestones in its first 50 years. This week, the Council wants to highlight the beginning of the Council’s online learning initiative, eAcademy®.
Providers’ eAcademy® provides the tools needed to educate all levels of staff and can help your agency meet and exceed licensure and accreditation requirements while saving the organization money and helping you go green. Providers’ eAcademy® is currently hosting 50,000 users at over 100 agencies across Massachusetts.
The Council announced it would be launching its online learning program at the 29th Annual Convention in 2004. The Council began the project in 2002 to enhance the educational opportunities available to providers. The two-year long process included an intensive search into e-learning vendors and adapting the courses available to create a curriculum that would satisfy Massachusetts standards. To help train entry-level staff, the Council also created the Direct Support Professional (DSP) Credentialing program, that included 12 modules of content to help get employees new to the sector ready to work.
The program began with over 100 courses which has today been expanded to a catalog of over 1,400. The online learning platform also now includes options for managers to create and assign training plans, and of course still includes the DSP Credentialing Program, which is now known as the The Human Services Credentialing Program.
As the Providers’ Council enters its next 50 years, eAcademy ® remains one of the cornerstones of its educational offerings. For more information on eAcademy ®, please click here. For any further questions, please contact Amanda Dellea-Rheaume.
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