Transforming Healthcare One Degree at a Time

The Apprenticeship College of Health (ACH) transforms how healthcare workers advance careers by turning jobs into degrees. By bringing higher education into the workplace, ACH improves quality of care by valuing experience and creating an affordable degree pathway.

Transforming Healthcare One Degree at a Time

A New Apprenticeship Degree for Healthcare Education

Healthcare is facing an urgent challenge.

Behavioral health providers need skilled professionals — and today’s workforce needs accessible ways to advance. Through a work-embedded degree experience, ACH bridges the gap between learning and caregiving, offering employers a structured way to develop talent while enabling workers to earn accredited degrees without leaving their jobs.

The Impact

Here’s what ACH makes possible for behavioral health employers, professionals, and the communities they serve.

Employers Fill Critical Roles Faster

ACH helps organizations build a pipeline of skilled professionals, ready to make an impact.

Talent Advances Seamlessly

Workers earn career-aligned degrees on the job—putting college without student loan debt in reach for all.

Community Care Everywhere

ACH opens the door for workers to grow in healthcare, improving local representation and quality of care.

The Nationwide Impact

Every behavioral health employer holds the potential to offer the highest quality of care in every community across the nation.

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The ACH Difference

FOR EMPLOYERS

A Proven Talent Investment

The talent you need already exists inside your organization and surrounding community.

Enhance Your Quality of Care

Workers learn how to offer higher levels of care as they progress through their degree program.

Education as a Strategic Advantage

ACH blends coursework with real job experience so workers graduate prepared for career advancement.

FOR STUDENTS

Learning that Pays

From day one through graduation, earn a paycheck while advancing to your degree without taking on student loan debt.

A Clear Path Forward

Your workplace is your college campus. Your colleagues are your classmates and mentors.

College that Works for You

Turn daily work into college credit through a flexible pathway to long-term career advancement.

 

Towanna Edwards Jackson

“Job-embedded learning and job-embedded training is the best thing ever. You’re going to use my job and its hours towards my career. I’m getting credit for my degree. This is how it should be. And I’m getting paid!”

Towanna Edwards Jackson
Apprenticeship Degree Alumna

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Whether you’re ready to hire, train, or advance your career, ACH provides the structure, support, and partnership that makes it possible.