Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
(a) Continuing education activities shall meet the following requirements:
(1) The providers of continuing education are graduate schools of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, or programs that are approved by the National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards or other nationally recognized organization that demonstrates to the department that their standards are substantially similar;
(2) the activity involves face-to-face instruction or a home study program;
(3) the provider implements a mechanism to monitor and document physical attendance at such instruction or to verify that a licensee completed a home study program as defined in section 20-195o(c)-1(6) of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(4) the provider retains written records for a period of three years from the participant's actual successful completion of the activity, including but not limited to: content description; instructor; date of activity; location of activity; list of participants; participant's evaluation of instruction presented and number of contact hours; and
(5) the provider issues a certificate of completion after the participant's successful completion of the activity. Such certificate shall include the participant's name, provider's name, title or subject area of the activity, date and location of attendance and number of contact hours completed.
(b) Subject matter for qualifying continued education activities shall reflect the scope of practice authorized under Chapter 383b of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(c) Activities which do not qualify for award of contact hours include: professional organizational business meetings; speeches delivered at luncheons or banquets; reading of books, articles, or professional journals; correspondence courses and other mechanisms of self instruction, except when used as a component of a home study program; and audio-visual materials, except when the latter is used as a component of a qualifying continuing education activity identified in subsection (a) of this section.
(Adopted effective October 1, 1999; Amended December 5, 2005)