Reach University

📣 Working adults already serving their communities — educators, behavioral health professionals, and aspiring leaders of all kinds — deserve degree pathways built around their lives, experience, and potential. ✨

That’s why we’re so excited to welcome the inaugural cohort of the Apprenticeship College of Health (ACH)!

Across Washington state, aspiring substance use disorder professionals are preparing for behavioral health careers that will strengthen the communities they already know and care deeply about — while building toward accredited Apprenticeship Degrees grounded in work-embedded learning and real-world experience.

Please join us in welcoming the first of many behavioral health learners to the Reach community! 🧡

We’re honored to welcome this inaugural cohort and grateful to our innovative employer partners helping make this pathway possible.

Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund

Some of the most powerful future teachers are already serving students every day — they just need a degree pathway built for the realities of their lives.

After years serving students in Louisiana schools, Paulesta Gilbert found a degree pathway that honored the educator she already was, while helping her become the credentialed teacher she had long worked to be.

At 58, she graduated from Reach University a semester early and stepped into her first full-time teaching role at the innovative Webster Parish Schools, bringing with her years of experience, persistence, and care for students.

“Delayed, but not denied.” 👏

Read Paulesta’s story:
https://reach.edu/blog/delayed-not-denied-how-the-apprenticeship-degree-helped-paulesta-gilbert-become-the-teacher-she-always-was