ACADA Learning Center: begin where every great groomer begins, with the right foundation.
ACADA supplies the knowledge, the standard and the credential. The hands-on skill is earned inside an ACADA member business, where an owner or manager signs off each practical item and the work becomes part of a public record that travels with the member.
Start Here.
Six steps from your first lesson to a permanent public professional record.
A PET Track is the program. A course is a section inside it. A lesson is the smallest unit, and together they are the supporting curriculum.
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Join
Complete the membership enrollment form. Enrollment is open and self-paced. No start date required. Your account and credential number are created immediately.
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Receive Your Credential Number
Your permanent ACADA credential number is assigned the moment you enroll. It's yours for life, attached to every lesson, review, and course credential you earn.
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Work Through Lessons
Log in to your member portal and work through modules at your own pace using reading, video, and written formats. There's no deadline and no cohort.
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Submit Your Work
Each lesson ends with a quiz or written submission. Your work goes to an ACADA advisor for review against the published standard.
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Receive Advisor Feedback
An ACADA advisor reviews your submission and provides written feedback. Every review becomes part of your permanent public record.
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Build Your Public Record
Reviewed Track work builds your ACADA public profile, visible to employers, clients, and veterinarians. Your credential travels with you throughout your career.
Everything a new professional needs to start right.
ACADA was built so that a person entering this trade can learn it properly where the work happens, with a curriculum behind them and a record that outlasts any single job.
A Credential From Day One
Your ACADA credential number is assigned at enrollment, before your first lesson. Your record starts building immediately and stays with you for life.
Structured, Sequenced Curriculum
The Generalist PET Track gives you a proper foundation before specialty tracks open. Every module builds on the last, with no gaps and no guessing what to learn next.
Expert Advisor Review
Your submitted work is reviewed by an ACADA advisor. You receive written feedback on every submission: not a pass/fail score, but real professional input that helps you grow.
Learn at Your Own Pace
No cohort. No required schedule. Work through lessons when you have time: on a break, in the evenings, on weekends. The curriculum waits for you.
A Public Profile That Grows
As you complete reviewed Track work, your public ACADA profile grows. Employers and clients can see exactly what you've completed and what standards you've been held to.
Member Business Rate Available
Working with an ACADA member salon or mobile grooming operation? Your training seat is included with the business membership, up to five people.
Pet grooming is a major profession. ACADA treats it that way.
Nearly 170,000 people work in United States pet care services, the category that includes grooming and boarding. ACADA exists to give each of them, and everyone who enters the profession next, a structured, documented, affordable education built for a real career.
Per business license
Five seats included, owners, managers and staff
Per additional seat
Beyond the five a business includes
Curriculum support
Lessons, tests, advisor assistance, credentials, and Career Portfolio
The right time to build your foundation is now.
Membership is open. There is no start date, and no cohort. Bring the business you work at, and start.