Acuity Academy is the training arm of AcuityCare Agency, the Arkansas CES Waiver provider serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We exist because the people doing the caring deserve a career, not a job that wears them out.
CHART was built inside AcuityCare for our own DSPs — frustrated by training that was either generic e-learning or paper packets read aloud in a conference room. We wanted the rigor of a clinical program with the warmth of a community workforce.
Today the CHART curriculum is published, instructor-led, and built around three non-negotiables: regulatory compliance with CES §303, clinical accuracy verified by a licensed RN, and field-tested practice with the people we support.
The CHART delivery model is built around what each license actually permits. The LMSW supervises everything. The QDDP teaches person-centered and behavioral content under LMSW oversight. The RN is the sole instructor of record for all clinical and CPR modules.
Renée is the licensed master social worker who supervises CHART delivery end to end. She authored Modules 1.2–1.6 and owns the rights, ethics, and trauma-informed care content across all four levels.
Hannah is the Qualified Developmental Disability Professional who teaches the practice modules — person-centered planning, BPIP development, supportive living domains. She works under active LMSW oversight and is never the sole instructor on clinical or CPR content.
Maya is the registered nurse and American Red Cross instructor who delivers every clinical skills module. She is the sole instructor authorized to teach and sign off on CPR, transfers, vital signs, medication awareness, seizure response, and the entire AR-CNHS pathway.
Every module starts where §303 ends. We build on top of the regulation — not around it, not to satisfy it. If a surveyor walked in tomorrow, the curriculum would defend itself.
Every health, medication, and CPR module is written or reviewed by Maya, our RN. If she can't sign her name to it, it doesn't ship.
The NADSP Code of Ethics is treated as a real ethical framework, not a poster on the breakroom wall. Career path is built in, not bolted on.
Generic healthcare training misses what makes IDD support unique. CHART content is grounded in the people we actually support — Down Syndrome, Autism, CP, Epilepsy, Spina Bifida.
AcuityCare is an Arkansas CES Waiver provider serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Acuity Academy is how we keep that promise — by building the workforce that actually delivers it. We serve agencies statewide across Arkansas, and we partner with select Arkansas CES agencies who share our standard.
We license the CHART curriculum and run shared cohorts for select Arkansas CES partners. Talk to our team about onboarding your DSPs.
