Wise Online Academy 100
Foundational Training for Customized Employment Excellence
Start strong with the Wise Online Academy (WOA) 100 Series ACRE, an essential, on-demand training built around the core competencies of Customized Employment. Designed for professionals who are new to the field or seeking to sharpen their skills, this course delivers practical tools and real-world strategies you can use immediately to improve employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Whether you’re an Employment Specialist, Job Coach, or Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, this flexible, high-impact training will strengthen your practice—and help professionalize the future of supported employment.
On-demand launching in July. Register now!
Key Features
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Immediate Application: Learn strategies and tools you can use with job seekers right away—no waiting, no fluff.
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Accessible & Flexible: Fully on-demand to fit into your busy schedule—learn anytime, anywhere.
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Stay Current: Perfect for professionals looking to refresh their toolkit and stay aligned with current best practices.
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Boost Professional Competence: Strengthen your effectiveness and confidence in delivering competitive, integrated employment services.
Intended Audience
This series is designed for people working in the field of vocational services for people with disabilities, including Employment Specialists, Job Coaches, Job Developers, Vocational Specialists, Transition Specialists, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors, or anyone who works in the field and wants to add to their knowledge, skills, and abilities to deliver quality employment services.
ACRE Customized Employment Series
Wise is a member of the Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators (ACRE). This four-part series has been endorsed by ACRE for a National Basic Certificate of Achievement in Employment Services with an Emphasis on Customized Employment. Visit ACRE’s website for more information.
Students who successfully complete the series will receive the certificate of achievement.
Logistics
- This four-part series is now fully on-demand and designed to offer a flexible and engaging learning experience. The course includes self-paced modules, interactive activities, and access to a collaborative learning community. It brings together the best of expert instruction and real-world application, all on your schedule.
- Course Tuition: $600
This Four-Part Series Includes:
Introduction to Supported Employment, Discovery and Person-Centered Planning
This class is an exciting and impactful introduction to the field of supported employment which will energize people new to the field and re-energize those already working in it. It will engage and activate your abilities to support people with disabilities to create lives of their own choosing. It will provide a full review of the values and practice of employment for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, instruction on how to perform Discovery with an employment candidate and will familiarize you with Person-Centered Employment Planning to inform and strengthen action plans.
Job Development and Marketing
This class provides an overview of the essential functions of marketing and customized job development for employment support professionals who work with job seekers with developmental and intellectual disabilities. This course gives employment specialists the values, confidence, and skills they need to work with the business community to develop win-win employment opportunities meeting the needs of the job seekers they serve and the businesses that hire them. It also provides insight, inspiration and a reminder of the basic values and creative, time-tested, approaches that are truly effective in successfully performing this valuable social service.
Systematic Instruction: Teaching, Learning and Retaining Jobs
Even the most complex tasks, if broken down and taught using the techniques of Systematic Instruction, can be learned, and mastered by people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Here is a chance for those who support people with disabilities to learn and practice these powerful techniques, and dramatically enhance their ability to teach people new tasks at home, in the community and in the workplace.
Social Security Benefits and Work Incentives
This class gives clear and thorough information about Social Security benefits and related work incentives, and helps people make informed choices about employment. The intent is to inspire participants to realize that work is important and achievable for people who experience disabilities. It will further help participants understand that people with disabilities can work and retain essential benefits, allowing them to move toward greater financial gain from employment.
I’m new to this field and had some anxiety/ insecurities about marketing/ networking, but this class was helpful, and I definitely feel more confident now. I really liked all the discussions around reframing your mindset and I think that really helped me. Thanks!
I very much appreciated the excellent quality of the Wise ACRE class and content delivery by the instructors! It was informative, exciting, and fun. I have worked with disabled individuals over 20 years and this class was a great way to learn and expand my knowledge. Thank you.
I have steadily been getting my whole Supported Employment team ACRE accredited through WISE Online Academy 100 Series. I went through it with 2 new hires and thought it was so valuable I sent my seasoned veterans to complete. They had an excellent experience stating that the trainers were helpful as well as accommodating for a full client caseload. My new hires appreciated an outside source perspective on quality services and my experienced staff appreciated the new tools and techniques they were introduced to.