GCHS Training

Information Security and Privacy

Required before access to the GCHS Applicant Portal: how to protect applicant information, eight short narrated lessons, a quiz, and a signed acknowledgment of the GCHS policy. Renew every 12 months.

About 10 minutes

NSPIRE Inspection Standards

HUD's National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate: the three inspectable areas, the four severity levels, affirmative habitability requirements, and the October 1 2026 scoring change.

14 lessons, self-paced

Accessibility Training

TAS, UFAS and ICC A117.1, plus the RAS credential built on TAS: separate accessibility standards and their related Texas credential, each on its own track.

• TASStart
• UFASStart
• ICC A117.1Start
• RASStart

Program Administration

How GCHS runs each housing program it administers, start to finish, one track per program: rules, intake, eligibility, the project, draws, closeout and monitoring.

• AYBRStart
• HRAStart

CDBG Administration

Grant administration built toward the Texas Department of Agriculture's TxCDBG Administrator Certification Test: national objectives, eligible and ineligible activities, environmental review, labor standards, procurement, relocation, lead-based paint, closeout, and a 100-question practice exam matching the certification test's format.

16 lessons, self-paced

Certified Construction Manager (CCM)

Exam prep across all ten CMAA domains: 29 instructional days of readings, narrated audio, diagrams and practice questions, then ten module mini-exams, four cumulative exams, a 100-question final mock, and a 175-question exam day simulation.

29 lesson days plus exam day, about 2 hours per day

PMP Exam Prep

26-day prep covering all three PMI domains (People, Process, Business Environment), with daily readings, narrated audio, domain checkpoints, four cumulative exams and a 120-question final mock.

26 days, about 90 minutes per day

Lean Six Sigma

Built toward the IASSC Certified Lean Six Sigma exams: Yellow, Green and Black Belt, each with a practice exam matching that belt's real question count, time limit and 70 percent pass mark.

27 lessons across three belts, self-paced

CGMS (Grants Management Specialist)

Built toward NGMA's Certified Grants Management Specialist credential: pre-award through closeout, cost principles, procurement, subrecipient monitoring, and audit readiness, for grants work that isn't tied to one specific program. Complements the CDBG Administration course.

10 lessons, self-paced