The Centre · College
CDERP College · Practitioner training
Where disability employment practitioners are made.
The College develops the workforce durable employment depends on: practitioners trained to a standard the field has rarely been able to teach. Five programs, all grounded in the Centre's framework tools.
Certified Customised Employment Practitioner
Australia's only ACRE-aligned Customised Employment training: a credentialed pathway that takes practitioners from Discovery through to durable placement, at fidelity.
Course detail and dates →Employment Counsellor Program
A clinical-grade counselling qualification for the fragile parts of the employment journey, grounded in the Centre's PIE-CF framework, for practitioners who hold people, not just place them.
Course detail and dates →Fidelity in Practice
Training staff is only the beginning. Completing training does not mean the intended practice is being delivered consistently, or that participants are experiencing the quality of support the organisation believes it provides. Fidelity in Practice helps employment professionals and organisations close that gap: recognising practice drift, using evidence rather than assumption, and treating fidelity as a tool for better practice rather than inspection.
Course detail and dates →Fidelity in Practice: Measuring Quality in Employment Services
A service getting someone a job does not by itself show that good Customised Employment practice occurred. This course teaches people delivering CE or CE-informed services how to test what they claim about the quality of their practice against the evidence, using the CDERP fidelity suite, and how to use that evidence to improve what they do, and to support the quality claims they make to the NDIS and Inclusive Employment Australia.
Course detail and dates →Building Employer Relationships That Last
Employer engagement is not the number of contacts made. It is the quality of the relationships built, what they make possible, and whether they hold when employment becomes difficult. This one-day course develops the judgement to read, build and govern employer relationships that employers value and participants can rely on.
Course detail and dates →Course dates, fees and enrolment
Program detail, upcoming intakes and enrolment are all handled on the College site.
Events · the CE community
Two gatherings a year.
Customised Employment Conference
An annual symposium for the Customised Employment community and the wider employment system, deliberately capped at around fifty so that everyone in the room can speak. The 2027 theme takes on why capable providers deliver less than they know how to.
The CE Practitioners' Retreat
A closed retreat for CE practitioners and trainers, a working intensive where the people carrying the practice sharpen their craft and keep the standard alive between them.