6.0 Major Accomplishments

6.1 Instructional Activity

A key measure for examining PDP’s accomplishments is to consider its overall instructional activity in meeting the education and training needs of the public service workforce. PDP has an extended history of offering a comprehensive range of education and training programs for the public workforce that continue to generate steady enrollments on an annual basis. For the past five years, PDP has, on average, offered over 3,079 instructional activities per year enrolling approximately 479,215 workers. Figure 3 provides a summary of instructional activity and enrollments for the period 2018–2023.

During the past year (2022–2023), PDP offered 3,391 courses, institutes, and workshops enrolling 512,224 workers. This generated 1,121,899 contact hours of instruction across all of its programs, which was a significant increase compared to the previous year’s 921,076 contact hours.

The program areas that generated the largest enrollments were Child Care Provider Training (403,692 for 2022–2023 and 409,231 for 2021– 2022) and Temporary Assistance Examiner (80,957 during 2022–2023 and 50,179 for 2021–2022).

PDP began slowly moving back to in-person training deliveries in the early part of the 2021–2022 fiscal year, and we were back to a full complement of in-person offerings from the later part of the 2021– 2022 fiscal year and throughout all the 2022–2023 fiscal year. Of note, on-line deliveries, both instructorled and on demand, continued to grow as well during this period. PDP was fortunate in that the organization was able to move back to in-person deliveries with no negative affects from the lingering pandemic.