The Regional Center (RC) Employee Tuition Reimbursement program provides tuition reimbursement for eligible RC employees to enhance RC services received through increasing subject matter expertise, career advancement options, and improving RC employee retention rates. Qualifying RC employees seeking a degree or certification in a health or human services-related field are eligible to receive up to $10,000 annually, for a maximum of three years. RC employees can maintain program eligibility if they are hired at a different regional center from the RC they originally started with.
Launched March 2023.
Eligibility
- Who Is Eligible: Regional center employees in good standing, including newly hired employees currently enrolled in an accredited degree or certification program.
- Eligible Academic Programs: The program shall be from an accredited institution in a health or human services-related field or a degree or certificate that the regional center determines will support or expand their employee’s current employment and career advancement options at the regional center.
- Concurrent Regional Center Work Requirements: At minimum, participants shall be active part-time employees and meet the regional center’s employee performance standards.
- Postgraduation Regional Center Work Requirements: In exchange for tuition reimbursement, the employee shall be required to work at the regional center for no less than one year for each year of tuition reimbursement following completion of their degree or certification. The regional center providing the tuition reimbursement shall notify the Department within 30 days of a participant requesting completing this work requirement at a different regional center. The participant’s new regional center is responsible for subsequent reporting to the Department.
- Coming Soon
Last modified: March 11, 2025
