1. A. The Board recognizes that social work is a practice of a profession which must conform to the public’s expectation of professional competency. It further recognizes that structured programs of continuing education will provide licensees with opportunities for maintaining and improving competency as well as the satisfaction of new professional development.
2. B. As a pre-requisite for biennial renewal of the practitioner’s license, the licensee must complete a minimum of 40 contact hours of accepted professional continuing education per renewal period. One of these hours must be in suicide assessment, treatment and management treatment.

3. C. The general guidelines for completing forty (40) contact hours of instruction are:

   1. (1) Accepted instruction will be those courses, conferences, seminars, etc., as approved by the Board pursuant to subsection D below.
   2. (2) Only student class hours or the equivalent will be counted as credit.
   3. (3) As a lecturer or discussion leader for materials directly related to the profession of social work, you may receive two hours per hour of presentation time to account for presentation and development of materials. Licensees may not receive credit for teaching the same course more than once per renewal period.
   4. (4) Except in unusual circumstances, credits will not be given for repeating an instructional course.

4. D. Approval for continuing education credit:

   1. (1) Approval for continuing education credit shall be provided by persons designated by the Board upon guidelines and standards established by the Board pursuant to these Regulations.
   2. (2) Application for continuing education credit approval shall be in the manner and form designated by the Board.
   3. (3) Application for approval shall be processed at times, and in the manner, designated by the Board up to the date of submission of the continuing education report. The risk of disapproval shall be borne by the sponsor or applicant for continuing education credit.

HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 36, Issue No. 6, eff June 22, 2012; SCSR 48-5 Doc. No. 5252, eff May 24, 2024; SCSR 49-5 Doc. No. 5301, eff May 23, 2025.