ACRE is...

A National membership organization and Community of Practice (CoP) for trainers in the field of employment services for people with disabilities.​​​

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ACRE does the following:

• Promotes competency-based training for employment service professionals. This facilitates the provision of high- quality employment services to individuals with disabilities.
• Provides a curriculum certification review process for community employment provider organzations. 
• Maintains sets of competencies for employment staff and evaluates curricula against those competencies.
• Identifies emerging needs in the field of employment services, which informs the need to update competency lists.
• Maintains a registry of names of professionals who complete any ACRE-approved competency-based training.
• Helps individuals and organizations with training needs to find competency-based training.

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As ACRE members, we...

• Share a common goal: to improve employment services and outcomes for individuals with disabilities by providing competency-based training.  
• Provide competency-based training for employment service professionals using online, virtual, and/or in-person delivery formats.