ESC has a number of resources to help you consider, identify, and evaluate knowledge you’ve gained on your own, outside of traditional academic settings.

• Some of the resources are competency-based, which means that they ask you to exhibit your knowledge as you answer each question.
• Others take a more explanatory approach and suggest different topics of knowledge that you might want to include in your credit request.

Note that whatever type of guide you use, the idea is to use it to help reflect on and articulate what you have learned.

Worksheet

You may want to download and use the following worksheet, which is based on the areas in the Global Learning Qualifications Framework, to further refine your thinking and develop the raw material needed to eventually draft a credit request.

• Worksheet to Develop a PLA Request (file 17kB)

General Guides

Use a general guide if you want some guidance on how to proceed, but don’t see your specific area of expertise in the lists below.

• General Guide –  Competency Based (file 28kB)
•  General Guide (file 26kB)

Subject-Specific Guides

• Administrative Services
• Business Communication (file 396kB) – competency based
• Case Management
• College Writing (file 47kB) – competency based 
• Community Participation
• Computer Science
• Conference Management
• Conflict Resolution (file 51kB) – competency based
• Customer Service – competency based
• Data Communication
• Diversity in the Workplace (file 145kB) – competency based
• Diversity in the Workplace
• Human Services
• Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
• Juvenile Justice (file 255kB) – competency based
• Labor-Management Relations
• Leadership (file 124kB) – competency based
• Leadership
• Management (file 96kB) – competency based 
• Management
• Project Management
• Public Speaking (file 40kB) – competency based
• Public Speaking
• Safety Awareness
• Safety Management
• Sales
• Small Business Management
• Social Gerontology
• Supervision
• Supervision in Human Services (file 46kB) – competency based 
• Training and Development

Guides in Human Services

There are multiple guides for human services that you can access through either a page on Child and Family Services OR a page on Health and Human Services – either page opens the same list. These guides are in the form of structured questions to help develop your credit requests; many of these guides take an applied case study approach. 

• Adolescents and Addictions
• Advocacy, Case Management
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Welfare, Community Service
• Crisis Intervention, Delivering Human Services
• Diversity in Human Services
• Documentation in Human Services
• Ethics
• Foster Parenting
• Group Work
• Health Care Management
• Health Care Policy
• Helping and Counseling Skills
• HS Practice with Older Adults
• HS Practice with Veterans
• Human Service Management
• Human Service Practice with Disability
• Interpersonal Violence
• Interventions with At-Risk Youth
• Motivational Interviewing
• Residential Care – Child Welfare
• Residential Care Management – Child Welfare
• Social Welfare Policy
• Supervision in Human Services
• Training and Development in Human Services