Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 4758-13-02 | Continuing education requirements for prevention certificate holders.

                                                
(A) The following steps are required for
		  renewal of a certificate to practice as an OCPS or OCPC.
(1) Completion of a
			 renewal application documenting the following:
(a) A minimum of forty hours of approved continuing education
				credit within the two year renewal period. Documentation of these hours does
				not need to be submitted with the renewal application. If selected in a random
				audit process, documentation shall be required;
(b) A minimum of six hours from domain VI: professional growth
				and responsibility. This includes current research, historical perspectives,
				theoretical approaches and current program models;
(c) A minimum of three hours of the total forty hours shall be in
				ethics education; and
(d) The remaining hours must be prevention related.
(2) Prevention
			 specialists may be granted up to a maximum of twenty CEUs for authoring alcohol
			 and other drug related prevention publications at the board's
			 discretion.
(3) A maximum of ten CEUs
			 may be granted for special language courses or workshops.
(4) A maximum of ten CEUs may be granted
			 for presenting a workshop or teaching alcohol and other drug prevention related
			 courses.
(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.
(B) The following steps are required for
		  renewal of a certificate to practice as an OCPSA.
(1) Completion of a
			 renewal application documenting the following:
(a) A minimum of twenty hours of approved continuing education
				credit within the two year renewal period. Documentation of these hours does
				not need to be submitted with the renewal application. If selected in a random
				audit process, documentation shall be required;
(b) A minimum of three hours from domain VI: professional growth
				and responsibility. This includes current research, historical perspectives,
				theoretical approaches and current program models.
(c) A minimum of one and a half hours of the total twenty hours
				shall be in ethics education; and
(d) The remaining hours must be prevention related.
(2) Prevention specialist
			 assistants may be granted up to a maximum of twenty CEUs for authoring alcohol
			 and other drug related prevention publications at the boards
			 discretion.
(3) A maximum of ten CEUs
			 may be granted for special language courses or workshops.
(4) A maximum of ten CEUs may be granted
			 for presenting a workshop or teaching alcohol and other drug prevention related
			 courses.
(C) Renewal applications shall be completed and filed with
		  required fee to the board no less than thirty days prior to the certificate
		  lapse date.
(1) 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 licensee or certificate holder requires an extension of the current
			 reporting period because the licensee or certificate holder has served on
			 active duty during the current or a prior reporting period. The licensee or
			 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 licensee 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.
(D) Prevention certificate 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:
(1) Be provided at a free clinic or other
			 non-profit organization that offers health care services based on eligibility
			 screenings identifying the client as an "indigent and uninsured
			 person" as that term is defined in division (A)(7) of section 2305.234 of
			 the Revised Code;
(a) Not be credited for license holders in a paid position
				at the organization at which the services are rendered;
(b) Be prevention services provided in compliance with the
				professional conduct requirements specified agency 4758 of the Administrative
				Code;
(c) 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; 
(d) Not count toward the requirement to complete three
				hours of continuing education in ethics continuing education.
(e) Be documented in writing from an administrative
				official at the organization where services were performed, specifying at a
				minimum the volunteers name, date(s) of qualifying volunteer services,
				number of hours of service, and a brief description of what services the
				volunteer performed.
(E) The board shall send renewal reminders ninety days
		  prior to the lapse date.
(F) The board may audit the renewal of a certificate
		  holder. If selected for an audit, certificate holders shall be required to
		  provide verification of completion of the hours required for their renewal
		  period.