Current through February 24, 2025
(a) A licensee
applying for renewal of a social worker license shall complete the continuing
education contact hours set out in this section for a biennial licensing
period. For the licensee's
(1) first biennial
renewal, the licensee shall complete
(A) 21
contact hours, if the licensee has been licensed for fewer than 12 months
during the concluding biennial licensing period;
(B) 45 contact hours, if the licensee has
been licensed for at least 12 months during the concluding biennial licensing
period; or
(2) second or
subsequent biennial renewal, the licensee shall complete 45 contact
hours.
(b) To be
eligible for renewal, a licensee shall complete the following minimum
continuing education contact hours during each biennial licensing period:
(1) six contact hours in substance abuse
education;
(2) six contact hours in
cross-cultural education;
(A) for the first
biennial renewal, all six hours must include issues relating to Alaska
Natives;
(B) for the second or
subsequent biennial renewal, at least three hours must include issues relating
to Alaska Natives;
(3)
three contact hours in professional ethics;
(4) three contact hours in teletherapy practice;
(5) three contact hours in suicide
education.
(c) The board
will only accept hours earned from an academic course that a licensee audited
as continuing education contact hours if
(1)
the licensee only claims the hours during which the licensee attended
instructional class time; and
(2)
the licensee does not claim more contact hours than the academic semester
credit, academic quarter credit, or other academic credit hours offered for
that course; for purposes of this paragraph,
(A) one academic semester credit equals 15
contact hours;
(B) one academic
quarter credit equals 10 contact hours.
(d) A licensee applying for renewal shall
complete at least 10 contact hours of the required continuing education contact
hours under this section by attending live, live online, or synchronous
training courses. The licensee may obtain the remaining hours through
(1) a correspondence program;
(2) a prerecorded videotape, audiocassette,
digital medium, or other optical medium program;
(3) an asynchronous program; for purposes of
this paragraph, "asynchronous" means non-real-time transmission of instruction,
classwork, and discussion between an instructor and a student; or
(4) another individual study
program.
(e) A licensee
applying for renewal may not earn more than 12 contact hours of continuing
education activities required under this section in one day.
(f) A licensee applying for renewal under
this section may receive up to three hours of professional ethics continuing
education credit under (b)(3) of this section once every biennial licensing
period for each 150 minutes that the licensee attends a regularly scheduled
board meeting.
(g) For the
purposes of this section,
(1) one "contact
hour" equals 50 to 60 minutes of classroom instruction between an instructor
and a participant;
(2) "relating
to Alaska Natives" means a structured educational experience, including a
course, lecture, workshop, or other organized training that focuses on the
indigenous peoples of Alaska as applicable to social work practice;
and
(3) "teletherapy practice"
means the use of audio, video, or data communication to perform, while
physically separated from a client, the function or practice within the
training required for licensure under AS 08.95 and this chapter.
Authority:
AS
08.95.030
AS
08.95.040
