Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
In order to qualify and be approved for Approved Continuing
Education Provider status by the Board, or to offer single programs for OBLADC
continuing education credit, the Provider must satisfy the following
requirements.
(1) Continuing education
status shall be approved prior to presenting continuing education programs.
When a provider number is necessary, any continuing education event(s)
sponsored or provided prior to the date a provider number is issued under this
rule shall not be granted continuing education credit.
(2) Continuing education provider status
shall be granted to continuing education providers who satisfy the following
requirements:
(A) Provide the Board with one
sample continuing education program containing a detailed agenda specifying
content and time frames for instruction which has been designed or approved by
the current continuing education director and meets all of the following
criteria:
(i) Is a course, seminar, workshop,
or institute that is relevant to, and focuses on the practice of alcohol and
drug counseling or other clinical, administration, or generalist practice in
the behavioral health field.
(ii)
Has stated learning objectives and is of sufficient duration to present a topic
in depth and detail to accomplish these objectives.
(iii) Is appropriate for the purposes of
furthering and maintaining the skills or knowledge of alcohol and drug
counselors.
(iv) The sample program
must identify the number of continuing education hours that will be earned. One
continuing education hour is defined as one clock hour (60 minutes) of actual
uninterrupted instruction.
(v) Is
instructed/presented by a person who meets at least one of the following
criteria:
(I) LADC/CADC or other person
licensed or certified by other counselor professions.
(II)Licensed or certified member of a
non-counseling field if the content of the program is counselor related and
falls within the presenter's area of training.
(B) Provide the Board a sample program
evaluation form.
(C) Provide the
Board a sample of the documentation of completion.
(D) Provide the Board with the name, address
and daytime telephone number of a person designated by the organization to act
as the continuing education director.
(E) Remit the appropriate non-refundable
continuing education provider application fee of $200. Such fee shall be
required for each license period during which the provider seeks Board
approval.
(F) The current
continuing education director must sign and abide by a written agreement to the
following:
(i) Ensure that each program to be
presented or approved by the provider for continuing education credit for
CADC/LADC satisfies the requirements of the Continuing Education rules of the
Board.
(ii) Provide each
participant who completes a program with documentation verifying that the
program has been completed. The documentation shall contain the participant's
name, provider's name and number, title of program, date and place of the
program, number of hours of continuing education credits earned, and the
signature of the sponsor or its representative.
(iii) Provide a mechanism for evaluation of
the program by participants.
(iv)
Notify the Board within ten days of any change in continuing education
director, mailing address, or telephone number.
(v) Ensure that all promotional material for
each program intended for CADC/LADCs contains in a conspicuous place the
complete provider number assigned by the Board, the specific program
objectives, and speaker/presenter's credentials.
(vi) The Board requests that the following
statement be placed on the "Certificate of Attendance" to show Board approval.
Example: "OBLADC Provider Number ." The provider will be issued a number when
provider status is approved and that number is to be placed in the blank
space.
(G) Comply with
all audit requests within 21 days of receipt of such requests from the
Board.
(3) Providers
shall maintain records of each course offered for three (3) years following
each licensure period during which the course was offered. Course records shall
include a course outline that reflects its educational objectives, the
presenter's name, the presenter's curriculum vitae, the date and location of
the course, participant's evaluations of the course, the hours of continuing
education credit awarded to each participant and a roster of participants by
name and license number.
(4) An
approved sponsor may subcontract with individuals to provide continuing
education programs. The sponsor must insure that the subcontractor meets all
requirements of this section.
(5)
The sponsor shall be responsible for assuring that no licensee receives
continuing education credit for time not actually spent attending the
program.
(6) Upon the failure of a
sponsor to comply with any of the requirements of this section, the Board,
after notice to the sponsor, may revoke the sponsor's approval
status.
(7) The Board may evaluate
any approved sponsor or applicant at any time to ensure compliance with
requirements of this section.
(8)
The Board may deny continuing education provider status to any applicant who
submits false, misleading or deceptive information or documentation to the
Board.
(9) The Board may rescind
the provider status or reject individual programs given by a provider if the
provider disseminated any false or misleading information in connection with
the continuing education programs or of the provider failed to conform to and
abide by the written agreement and rules of the Board.
(10) Complaints regarding continuing
education programs offered by approved providers may be submitted in writing to
the Board office.
(11) Reapproval
of Continuing Education Providers
(A) Approval
of continuing education providership is for the fiscal year during which
approval or reapproval was given. If reapproval is not sought and granted, the
continuing education approved provider status automatically ends.
(B) It is the responsibility of the
continuing education provider to request annual reapproval of the provider
status by submitting a new application on the application form provided by the
Board.
(12) Activities
Unacceptable as Continuing Education. The Board will not give credit hours for:
(A) Education incidental to the regular
professional activities of an alcohol and drug counselor, such as learning
occurring from experience or research.
(B) Organizational activity such as serving
on committees or councils or as an officer in a professional
organization.
(C) Non-counseling
content courses not directly related to enhancement of alcohol or drug
counselor skills or performance as an alcohol or drug counselor.
(D) Staff orientation, administrative staff
meetings, case management meetings and training specifically related to
policies and procedures of an agency may not be counted.
(E) Book reports or critiques of professional
journal articles.
(13)
Counselor's Responsibility Regarding Continuing Education
(A) It is the counselor's responsibility to
determine if a workshop is applicable and appropriate to his/her professional
development as an alcohol and drug counselor.
(B) If a counselor submits documentation for
training that is not clearly identifiable as alcohol and drug counselor
continuing or behavioral health education, the Board will request a written
description of the training and how it applies to the individual's professional
development as an alcohol and drug counselor. If the Board determines that the
training cannot be considered alcohol and drug counselor or behavioral health
continuing education, the individual will be given sixty (60) days to replace
the hours not allowed. Those hours will be considered replacement hours and
cannot be counted during the next licensure period.
(C) Continuing education hours that are
clearly not alcohol and drug counseling or behavioral health related will be
unacceptable and the individual will not be given time to replace those
hours.
(14) Counselor
Submission of Continuing Education Requests
(A) If an alcohol and drug counselor attends
or plans to attend a course that is not provided by an Approved Continuing
Education Provider, the individual may submit a single request for approval of
the continuing education program.
(B) To qualify for approval, the individual
will be required to submit:
(i) A complete
application for continuing education form on the application form provided by
the Board.
(ii) Biographical
information and qualifications on the presenter(s).
(iii) Program schedules.
(iv) Descriptions and objectives of each of
the workshops.
(v) A $25
non-refundable individual continuing education application fee.
(C) If the application meets the
Board requirements for approval, the approval status shall apply only to the
individual applicant. Each applicant requesting approval for a course that is
not provided by an Approved Continuing Education Provider, must submit a
separate application form, related documents, and fee.
(D) Submission of an application for
continuing education program approval and related documents is not a guarantee
of approval.
