For Immediate Release

Essential Learning Signs Phoenix House
National Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Located in Nine States

SAN DIEGO- (June 11, 2008), Essential Learning, the largest provider of e-learning services in the behavioral health and human services industry, was recently selected as the e-learning vendor for Phoenix House.  Phoenix House is a substance abuse treatment provider that serves 7,000 men, women and adolescents each day at more than 120 programs in nine states, including New York, California, Texas, Florida, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

Phoenix House employees will have access to Essential Learning’s Organizational Learning Management System to take online courses with continuing education credit, 24 hours a day/7days a week. Content is available specifically for addiction professionals. Managers will be able to compile comprehensive reports and track their employees’ progress to remain compliant with state and national mandatory training requirements.

”We are very excited to welcome Phoenix House as an Essential Learning customer andlook forward to working with them,” said Sue Erskine, Co-Founder and CEO and Chief Development Officer of Essential Learning. “Phoenix House has always been on the cutting-edge in delivering prevention and treatment services.” Erskine further stated, “Increasingly, organizations that deliver services in highly regulated environments are selecting e-learning as the most cost-effective way to deliver mandated staff training.” “We saw e-learning as an efficient way to provide training across our many locations around the country and as a cost effective approach in which to provide many required trainings to all of our employees,” said Karen Sodomick, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Phoenix House. 

Essential Learning was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California. The company contracts with more than 425 organizations in more than 46 states. For more information, visit www.essentiallearning.com.  In 2008, Essential Learning expanded its e-learning services to offer providers new web-based community education and recovery tools, Community Access Site (CAS) and Build Your Own WRAP®, on a subscription basis. Request a demo of our services today.

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