Continuing Education
The Office of Continuing Education is committed to becoming the leader and expert in providing lifelong education to social work professionals and creating a interdisciplinary community of extraordinary advocates, clinicians, and community organizers.
Ready to explore new avenues or advance your current career? Our continuing education programs offer many opportunities to develop new skills, gain greater knowledge, and move your career forward. Our instructors include the best minds in our community, state, and nation, and trainings cover the topics most important to you.
Important Notice
The University is transitioning to a new enrollment management system launching in July, 2025! If you are enrolled in any self-paced courses, note that you will lose access to all self-paced courses after June 30 at 11:59pm EDT. Be sure to complete any courses you signed up for and download any certificates you need by no later than June 30 at 11:59pm, or you will lose access. Once we transition courses into the new system, courses will become available in July. Stay tuned and sign up for our newsletter to receive alerts as new courses are added to the new system this summer and fall!
Explore our Training Series
988 Lifeline Training Series
We are pleased to provide our 988 Lifeline Training Series. These free trainings are designed for 988 and crisis call line workers.
ADAMH Engaging Neighborhoods Training Series
ADAMH provides a pathway to health and healing for Franklin County residents seeking resources for addiction and mental health.
Presenter Applications
The Office of Continuing Education is proud to work collaboratively within the University and with social service networks across the state to provide quality, evidence-based, professional development opportunities for Ohio’s human service professionals. If you have strong expertise in emerging issues and are skilled in areas that would benefit Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists, we would like to hear from you! Please submit a presenter application to get started.
We would also like to hear from individuals who are interested in providing quality, evidence-based trainings for Prevention and Treatment Professionals! Please submit a presenter application to get started.
Accreditation
The Ohio State University College of Social Work provides approvals for continuing education for counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists that are accepted by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapist (CSWMFT) Board.
The Ohio State University College of Social Work has been approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals (CDP) Board as a provider of Continuing Education, approval number: 50-24068.
The Ohio State University College of Social Work, (Provider: 1628), is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. OSU College of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 4/30/25-4/30/28.
