Basic Customized Employment Services Certificate Achievement
The Basic Customized Employment Services - Certificate of Achievement is awarded to trainees who complete all training requirements for that certificate. Training includes 40 hours of content & professional development activities. The content presented builds knowledge and skills of trainees in the ACRE Customized Employment Services Competencies.
Below is an outline of the content requirements for an ACRE approved training. While each Training provider offers its own training, the content will include the following:
2018 ACRE CE Competencies
Topic Area |
Required Hours: Basic |
Domain 1: Application of Core Values & Principles to Practice * Rights, history, legislation, best practices, professionalism |
4 (11 K) |
Domain 2: Discovery/Individualized Assessment and Employment/Career Planning * Discovery activities, assessing strengths, skills, interests, situational assessment, career exploration, support plan, customized employment planning, work impact on benefits, self-employment, written comprehensive plan. |
10 (6 K, 3 S) |
Domain 3: Community Research and Job Development: |
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* Marketing approaches and materials for job developer and job seeker (brochures, resumes, profiles and other materials, planning job seeker involvement and decision making, assistance with disclosure and accommodations requests, networking, development of skills for outreach and interactions with employers to explore their needs, as well as conducting community research including labor market info, range of employers in the area and info on specific employers or industries) * Job Acquisition (involvement of job seeker, disclosure decisions, accommodations, negotiations, job creation/carving and closing the deal) |
10 (3 K, 5 S) |
Value |
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Domain 4: Workplace and Related Supports * Support plans, starting the job, involvement in usual employer training, job analysis, universal design strategies, systematic instruction, natural supports, social inclusion, fading, positive behavioral supports, ongoing supports and funding, access to resources needed for long-term employment, support for job separation, assessing employee and employer satisfaction. |
10 (6 K, 6 S) |
Other (Specific Disabilities, etc.) |
6 |
Total Hours Experience Requirements |
40 NONE |