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 start of its partnership with Suffolk University.
Suffolk University’s Moakley Center for Public Management and the Providers’ Council began collaborating in 2002 on the human service management certificate program. The program was designed to provide access to a graduate-level education at a significant discount to promote educational accessibility and assist human service workers in advancing their careers. Participants in the program are enrolled from September to May and complete five blocks of classes covering current topics and skills relevant to the human services sector. The program provides graduates of the Certificate Program with a well-rounded skill set to be successful managers in today’s human service sector.
The program was originally designed to address the need for new leadership within the human services community. The inaugural class graduated 27 students, who all earned a Certificate in Community Human Service Management, the first iteration of the Certificate in Nonprofit Human Services Management Program that runs each academic year today.
Today, the program has grown significantly over the past 23 years, graduating about 750 students, including the Council’s current president and CEO, Bill Yelenak. The Council is proud to say that 44 future leaders will be graduating from the program in 2025.
For more information on the certificate program and other academic opportunities available through Suffolk University, please contact Nina Lamarre at nlamarre@providers.org.
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