Professional education and training

Our training program has been providing training to community, housing, and economic development professionals for over 45 years.
Our training has had a significant role in shaping the profession.

In 2022, there was a 30% increase in the number of participants in our training.
Much of this increase was due to the growth in remote and Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) offerings.

In recent years, we have sought to make our legacy training more broadly accessible, to more diverse participants.
To do this, we instituted two options for training in addition to its traditional in-person classes: live-remote learning and IMI.
In 2022, we made progress in these innovations by adding one more course to the IMI roster and continuing the development of another.
Our goal is to offer all courses in the certification series (except the capstone courses) in IMI.

Grow America Training’s innovations have made its training more accessible to a wider range of participants, including those who are unable to travel to in-person classes or who have financial constraints.
This has helped to ensure that Grow America Training continues to be the standard for training community, housing, and economic development professionals.