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

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 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.