May 17, 2008 

The purpose of continuing education is to promote ongoing professional development. It benefits the interventionist, the intervention profession, and the individual, group, organization, and community to whom intervention services are provided. Continuing education is a means of accumulating the training necessary to transition to another registration classification. Board Registered Interventionists will build upon their previously demonstrated competencies and demonstrate professional development through pursuit of continuing education.

Fifteen continuing education units (CEUs), every two years, are required to maintain registration and must be earned within the two-year registration period. An average of 7.5 CEUs should be obtained each year. For registration maintenance purposes, CEUs are not transferable to any other registration period. They may be counted toward the minimum hours of training/education required for another intervention registration classification. CEUS obtained prior to the initial date of registration are not eligible to be used for maintaining registration. An interventionist may receive CEU credit only once for a training/education event, even if the event is repeated during different registration periods.

All 15 CEUs required to maintain registration must be recognized or petitioned for AISCB CEUs. Continuing education is broken down into two categories. Some continuing education may be recognized by the AISCB for both categories.

CATEGORY I: Minimum of 10 CEU's of education specific to intervention. Examples of Category I education are food addiction, sex addiction, gambling addiction, domestic violence, MISA intervention techniques, working with MD's, hospitals, nursing homes, intervention approaches.

CATEGORY II: Minimum of 5 CEUs of education specific to knowledge and skills related to the counseling field/profession.

ATTENDANCE AT AN AIS BUSINESS MEETING WEEKEND IN ITS ENTIRETY WILL EARN THE ATTENDEE 5 CATEGORY I/II CEUS.

A CEU is defined as equivalent to one clock hour spent in a continuing education program. (Excluded is non-program time such as coffee breaks, social hours, registration time, meal times, etc.). One college or university semester hour of credit will be the equivalent of 15 CEUs, and one college or university quarter hour of credit will be the equivalent of 10 CEUs and one college or university trimester hour of credit will be equivalent to 12 CEUs.

The Board Registered Interventionist may request an extension if he or she is unable to meet the continuing education requirements for re-registration for a period of 13 months. The interventionist may petition for CEUs for programs not currently recognized by the AISCB by providing a course outline and completion certificate.

Recognized programs are training/education programs the AISCB has identified as fulfilling the criteria for CEU credit and have been awarded CEUs by the AISCB or are recognized sources. The pre-training publicity will indicate if the AISCB recognition is being sought or has been obtained. Included are, continuing education programs provided by colleges and universities, health professional agencies, treatment agencies and governmental agencies. Programs not awarded AISCB CEUs may be petitioned for credit. College and university courses, offered by accredited institutions as credit toward a degree qualify for CEUs.

Structured individual continuing education, such as the AISCB Bibliocredit Program and other self-study programs, is available to the AISCB interventionists with a maximum of 10 CEUs every two years.

Interventionist's may receive up to 5 Category II CEUs every two years for volunteer time serving as a member of the Board of Directors, a Board committee or an AISCB committee.

Agency in-service education programs may be counted for up to 10 of the required 15 CEUs required biennially for re-registration. Agencies who conduct such programs solely for their staff may apply for renewed recognition of in-service program curriculum in increments of ten-hour blocks to be revised biennially. Interventionists will follow the pre-recognition method of reporting CEUs for agency in-service training recognized by the AISCB and the petition request procedure for in-service programs not awarded CEUs by the AISCB.

Board Registered Interventionists may petition the AISCB for official recognition of other valid types of education experiences not included in the recognized sources. Examples of alternative experiences include:

Research papers, professional publications in the intervention field: An interventionist may obtain up to 5 CEUs every two years for papers accepted for publication, reading or discussion at a professional meeting or conference. The topic must pertain to intervention. The work can be counted only once unless major updates or revisions occur, even though presented in more than one format or location.

Teaching/Training other interventionists: The number of CEUs awarded will be equal to the number of hours spent in actual presentation time, plus .5 hours for preparation time. Education lectures presented as part of the intervention services provided to communities, organizations, groups and individuals are not eligible to be counted as CEUs. Presentations for which the interventionist has previously received credit are ineligible.