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Professional Development Program

The Workforce Institute's Professional Development Program (PDP) provides financial support and professional development opportunities. PDP provides:

  • Scholarships to attend partner colleges and universities to ACS and provider agency staff who apply and are awarded.
  • Support for attending graduate-level classes to ACS employees who are accepted to the program.
  • Assistance with Master of Social Work practicums or internships to ACS employees who are accepted to the program.

Scholarships

The ACS Scholarship Program consists of two scholarships: the Dr. James R. Dumpson Scholarship for graduate-level studies and the Nicholas Scoppetta Scholarship for undergraduate-level studies.

The ACS Provider Agency Scholarship Program is for provider agency staff pursuing MSW degrees.

A group of approximately forty people stand side by side next to an orange wall.

PDP graduates and leadership team are all smiles as they gather for an annual Celebration of Success at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.