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COA Partners with Essential Learning
COA is delighted to announce its partnership with Essential Learning, the leading provider of e-learning solutions to the behavioral health and human service industries, to create a series of self-paced, online courses designed to assist organizations and programs throughout the accreditation process. Essential Learning will serve as the approved exclusive online training partner for COA. Additionally, COA will review and approve Essential Learning’s existing crosswalk of their online content to COA’s accreditation standards. Combined, these initiatives will help meet COA’s aim to provide superior training and support tools to accredited, in-process and prospective organizations so that they in turn, are able to deliver high quality services to their clients.
WHO IS ACCREDITED?

Private Organization Accreditation
Germaine Lawrence is a residential treatment center for girls ages 12-18 with complex behavioral, psychological and learning challenges. Girls live at our programs while receiving special education, individual, family and group therapy; psychiatric and primary medical care; and a wide variety of therapeutic activities and interventions.
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ORGANIZATION TESTIMONIAL
Brewer-Porch Children's Center
James W. Thompson, Executive Director
The COA standards as applied to the operations at Brewer-Porch Children’s Center at The University of Alabama has given the administration an opportunity to examine best practice and improve the quality of care provided to clients.
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