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Inside Higher Ed: A College for Health Care Apprentices

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Inside Higher Ed: A College for Health Care Apprentices

A recent article by Colleen Flaherty, senior editor at Inside Higher Ed, highlights the launch of the Apprenticeship College of Health (ACH). Created in partnership with the Training Fund and Reach University, ACH brings Reach’s Apprenticeship Degree to behavioral health, beginning with a Washington pathway that prepares candidates for careers as Substance Use Disorder Professionals and leverages the Training Fund’s deep industry experience.

"The apprenticeship model can be very well suited for some of these fields of study where the earnings might be a little bit lower, but we still think that the program is valuable because it’s filling a societal need. You need a lot of hands-on experience if you’re going to get really good at these professions.”

Preston Cooper Senior Fellow at AEI and Author of the Preliminary Earnings-Test Analysis

Women in therapyThe article frames ACH as part of a larger conversation about college affordability, degree value, and whether higher education is creating realistic paths for working adults preparing for essential care professions. For Reach, the launch of ACH reflects a broader effort to make degree pathways more affordable, practical, and more closely aligned with workforce needs.

“Behavioral health suffers from the same types of labor shortages that we’ve seen in teaching and, of course, across other occupations in health care… The typical pathways into those fields are very, very expensive, with very, very high tuition.”

Joe Ross President and CEO, Reach University
Read the article on Inside Higher Ed
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