Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4758 - Chemical Dependency Professionals Board
Chapter 4758-13 - Continuing Education and License Renewal
Section 4758-13-02 - Continuing education requirements for prevention certificate holders
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 4758-13-02
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The following steps are required for renewal of a certificate to practice as an OSPCA, OCPS, or OCPC within each two-year period of certification or licensure:.
(1) Completion of a renewal application
in the board's electronic application system and submitting
the proper fee prior to its expiration date and no earlier than ninety days
prior to the expiration date.
(2)
Completion of continuing education hours within the
two-year renewal cycle with documentation of these hours unloaded onto the
boards' continuing education monitoring system prior to renewal application
payment.
(a) A minimum of forty hours of
approved continuing education credit within the two-year renewal period
for an OCPS or OCPC. A
minimum of twenty hours of approved continuing education credit within the
two-year renewal period for an OCPSA.
(b) A minimum of six hours from
content are or domain VI: professional growth and
responsibility in prevention science for an OCPS or
OCPC. A minimum of three hours from content area
or domain VI: professional growth and responsibility in prevention science for
an OCPSA. This includes current prevention
research, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches and current program
models;
(c) A minimum of three
hours of the total forty hours for the OCPS or OCPC,
and a minimum of one and a half hours of the total twenty hours for the
OCPSA shall be in prevention ethics
education;
(d)
A maximum of
three hours may be in cultural humility; and
(e) The remaining hours
must be prevention related.
(3)
Active OCPS or OCPC holders may be granted up to
a maximum of twenty CEUs for authoring
substance use
disorder prevention, other behavioral health prevention including but not
limited to gambling disorder prevention or suicide prevention, or mental health
promotion related publications at the board's discretion.
(4) A maximum of ten CEUs may be granted
OCPS or OCPC for presenting
for the first time, and maximum of five CEUS may be
granted to an OCPSA for copresenting, a workshop or teaching
substance use disorder prevention, other behavioral
health prevention including but not limited to gambling disorder prevention or
suicide prevention, or mental health promotion, prevention ethics, or
prevention supervision related courses per
renewal period. One and a half CEU is given for each contact hour of training.
Credit is not granted for preparation time.
(5) The board shall consider relevant
education, training, or service completed during the current renewal period by
a licensee or certificate holder who is a member of or spouse of a member of
the armed forces of the United States or reserve components thereof, the Ohio
national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, or the
national guard of any other state in determining whether a licensee has
fulfilled required continuing education for that renewal period.
(6)
A member of the
armed forces of the United States, the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military
reserve, the Ohio naval militia, the national guard of any other state, or a
reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who has served on
active duty, whether inside or outside the United States, for a period in
excess of thirty-one days may submit an application to the board stating that
the certificate holder requires an extension of the current reporting period
because the certificate holder has served on active duty during the current or
a prior reporting period. The certificate holder shall submit proper
documentation certifying the active duty service and the length of that active
duty service.
Upon receiving the application and proper documentation, the board shall extend the current reporting period by an amount of time equal to the total number of months that the certificate holder spent on active duty during the current reporting period. For purposes of this paragraph, any portion of a month served on active duty shall be considered one full month.
(7)
OCPSA, OCPS and OCPC holders holders may claim up to
four hours of volunteer service toward the forty hour continuing education
requirement. To qualify under this rule, volunteer services shall:
(a)
Be provided at a
free clinic or other non-profit organization that offers health care services
based on eligibility screenings identifying the client or consumer as an
"indigent and uninsured person" as that term is defined in division (A)(7) of
section 2305.234 of the Revised
Code;
(i)
Not be
credited for certificate holders in a paid position at the organization at
which the services are rendered;
(ii)
Be prevention
services provided in compliance with the professional conduct requirements
specified agency 4758 of the Administrative Code;
(iii)
Be credited as
one hour of CE for each sixty minutes spent providing services as a volunteer,
not to exceed four hours of the total biennial CE requirement;
(iv)
Not count toward
the requirement to complete three hours of continuing education in ethics
continuing education.
(v)
Be documented in writing from an administrative
official at the organization where services were performed, specifying at a
minimum the volunteer's name, date(s) of qualifying volunteer services, number
of hours of service, and a brief description of what services the volunteer
performed.
(8)
The board shall
send renewal reminders ninety days prior to the expiration date prior to it
moving to an inactive, lapsed status.
(9)
The board may
audit the renewal of a license or certificate holder. If selected for an audit,
licensee or certificate holders shall be required to have all proper
verification of completion of the hours required for their renewal period
within the boards' continuing education monitoring system.
(10)
Failure to hold
proper documentation of continuing education hours or to comply with a
continuing education audit may result in a failed audit fee and disciplinary
action.
(B) [Reserved]
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