On-line Hub for Behavioral Well being Training Receives Backing from IACET and QABA
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Catalight Academy, digital studying for behavioral well being practitioners and oldsters, has been awarded accreditations by the Worldwide Accreditors for Persevering with Training and Coaching (IACET) and the Certified Utilized Habits Evaluation Credentialing Board (QABA) – additional validating the platform’s international choices and reflecting the group’s dedication to rigorous, high-quality persevering with training.
Formally launched at first of the 12 months, Catalight Academy (an evolution from the corporate’s Catalight Classroom platform) has lengthy provided persevering with training models (CEUs) for all main licenses and certifications within the fields of autism and mental and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It now provides IACET CEUs, a globally acknowledged commonplace that’s accepted throughout a variety of professions, together with training and healthcare; and QABA CEUs, for professionals who present behavioral interventions for folks with autism and associated disabilities.
“The necessity for clinicians skilled in autism and associated disabilities continues to outpace provide,” stated Brianna Fitchett, Catalight’s vp of scientific impression. “By providing accredited CEUs and complete training alternatives, Academy is getting ready extra suppliers to serve extra shoppers, which is able to in the end cut back wait instances, broaden entry to providers and enhance outcomes for shoppers and their households.”
Led by instructors from the nonprofit Catalight, one of many largest behavioral well being networks in america and a number one international analysis institute, Catalight Academy provides a rising portfolio of instructional alternatives, together with 5 certificates packages with superior alternatives, specialised programs and webinars.
“IACET accreditation permits Catalight Academy to supply CEUs to a broader group of pros, even those that might not specialise in autism and I/DD however wish to higher assist folks in these communities,” Fitchett stated. “Accreditation as a QABA persevering with training supplier permits us to assist the profession improvement of autism professionals all over the world.”
Along with IACET and QABA persevering with training models, Catalight Academy supplies models for psychologists, conduct analysts, speech-language pathologists and marriage and household therapists – serving to practitioners preserve their credentials and keep present on evidence-based interventions whereas increasing entry to wanted providers for folks with I/DD.
Catalight Academy’s persevering with teaching programs emphasize environment friendly, outcome-driven care that does not depend on excessive hours of in-person remedy. Choose choices can be found for college students pursuing a profession within the I/DD discipline and caregivers who wish to higher perceive their kid’s distinctive wants.
To be taught extra or join Catalight Academy, go to www.catalightacademy.org.
About Catalight
Catalight breaks down limitations and biases to create a extra equitable world so folks with developmental disabilities can select their path to care. Catalight supplies entry to revolutionary, individualized care providers, scientific analysis and advocacy — all powered by clever expertise. By way of the work of affiliate companions, Easterseals Hawaii and Easterseals Northern California, Catalight and its household of firms assist folks with developmental disabilities and their households throughout their care journey.
The Catalight household of firms is among the largest behavioral well being networks within the nation, with greater than 15,000 practitioners serving 25,000 shoppers and households yearly. Backed by greater than a decade of expertise and a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, we’re reimagining the way in which folks with developmental disabilities and their households expertise healthcare. Catalight’s purpose is to make sure that people and households obtain well timed entry to evidence-based remedy, together with naturalistic developmental and language-based providers, utilized conduct evaluation and speech remedy.
SOURCE Catalight Basis, a California non-profit company
