We provide CEs/CEUs (and the certificates) to many places both large and small, such as Alzheimer's Foundation, Brain injury Association, Epilepsy Foundation, Massachusetts Public Health Association, Jewish Federation, HMO's, small and large practices and individuals seeking to offer CE credit for their programs and presentations.

It is less expensive and eliminates paperwork for you or your place of practice, since we are national providers. This is a very popular program. It is called Continuing Education Credit Provider Program (CECP).

We are nationally accredited to offer CE/CEU credit for the following participants/professionals:
 

• Social Workers (ASWB)
  
• Psychologists (APA)
  
• Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NBCC)
  
• Professional Counselors (NBCC)
  
• National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
  
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
• Nurses
• Registered Dietitians (CPE)
  
• Massachusetts Licensed Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors (LADC: I-III) (NAADAC)
  
• Massachusetts Nursing Home Administrators
• Massachusetts Educators

 

You determine, collect and keep all attendance fees. Or you do not have to charge attendees at all. By offering CE credit from us, you will naturally attract more attendees. This has also proven very valuable for in-service training, Grand Rounds, outreach programs, etc.

Alternately, if you have ever considered

presenting your own program, this is the time.

Our service is for individuals and organizations across the board, from hospitals, to residential facilities, non-profit foundations, clinics and individual speakers.

We have done the hardest work for you!

The reason that most practitioners or organizations do not attempt to offer continuing education credit to attendees is because of the thousands of dollars in costs, the enormous amount of time, staffing and the paperwork involved.

For example, when we attained our American Psychological Association (APA), National Continuing Education Sponsor Approval renewal (we have been approved since 1993), we needed to submit 116 pages of documentation. For our Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) National Accreditation, 97 pages. Now, you can take advantage of our efforts. We save you all the work and money.

Our services for all above CECP programs include the following:

       1. We review your program's content and objectives.

        2.  We issue Certificates of Attendance and continuing education credit.

        3.  We securely maintain records, as required, so you won't have to.

        4.  We provide CE (CEU) credit for the following professions:

• Psychologists: We are nationally approved by the American Psychological Association (APA).
• Social Workers: We are nationally approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB provider #1117).
• Licensed Mental Health Counselors: We are nationally approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC provider #5596).
• Substance Abuse Counselors: We are nationally approved by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC provider #174).
• Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors: LADC (I-III): We are nationally approved by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC provider #174).
• Nurses: As an APA approved provider, CES programs are accepted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Every state Board of Nursing accepts ANCC approved programs except California and Iowa. However, CES is also an approved Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, (Provider Number CEP 15567) which is also accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing.
• Registered Dietitians: CES is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians registered(DTRs) receive continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of our programs.
  
• Certified Counselors: We are nationally approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC provider #5596).
• Marriage & Family Therapists:  The following Marriage & Family Therapy Boards accept programs offered by NBCC, ASWB or APA approved providers (of which we are approved): AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, MD, ME, MS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA AND WI.
  
• Nursing Home Administrators: CES has been awarded Deemed Status to offer Continuing Education credit to Massachusetts Nursing Home Administrators.
  

All We Need From You:

• Program Title.
• Speaker's C.V. and bio of any length.
• The content of the talk, which can be in a single paragraph or outline form of any length.
• Objectives. We would like to see objectives corresponding to the content of your talk. For example,  in an eating disorder talk you could list three or four objectives such as:

       
At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees should
be better able to:

        "Describe the difference between anorexia nervosa and 
        binge eating disorder."

• A bibliography of three to six items (books, articles from any appropriate source).
• The date and hour(s) of your program.

We can also help you contact potential attendees.

• We have developed a database of over 1,900,000 names and addresses of licensed professionals. We adhere to a privacy policy where we do not share our attendees' names outside our organization. The advantage to you is that these names are available to you for our CECP programs.

Your cost:

It costs you nothing to have us review your program.

When your program is approved and you choose to have us provide continuing education credit, there is a fee of $100.
You can then choose the professionals for whom you would like us to provide Continuing Education Certificates of Attendance. There is a $50 fee for each profession you choose. That covers all of the attendees in that profession:

• Social Workers (ASWB)
  
• Psychologists (APA)
  
• Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NBCC)
  
• Professional Counselors (NBCC)
  
• National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
  
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
• Nurses
• Registered Dietitians (CPE)
  
• Massachusetts Licensed Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors (LADC: I-III) (NAADAC)
  
• Massachusetts Nursing Home Administrators
• Massachusetts Educators
  

If you repeat your program, there is no initial $100 fee and the cost per profession is reduced by 25%.

Questions?

Please contact us.

Commonwealth Educational Seminars

1020 West Barnstable Road

Marstons Mills, MA 02648-1210

(800) 376-3345 24 Hours/day 

(508) 428-8676 9-5 PM - Fax: (508) 420-3360

Email: info@CommonwealthSeminars.com

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