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.
Live Trainings
Register for upcoming live, in-person events and scheduled Zoom-based webinars.
Self-Paced Catalog
Browse and search across our catalog of recorded webinars and self-paced learning trainings.
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.
Cost for Continuing Education Trainings:
General CE live and asynchronous trainings will have the following price scale beginning July 2025:
- 1 CE = $30
- 2 CE = $50
- 3 CE = $70
- 4 CE = $90
- 5 CE = $110
- 6 CE = $130
Certificate Program pricing will be based on the number of CE hours multiplied by the fee is for 1 CE credit. Example – A 20 Clock Hour certificate program would cost $600.
In person and live webinar trainings in our ADAMH Engaging Neighborhoods Series are free to participants through grant funding.
The 988 Training Series offers free live webinar trainings through grant funding. All Self–Paced 988 trainings have a fee of $10.00.
2 NEW ETHICS SELF PACED TRAININGS COMING SOON:
- Ethics of School Social Work (3 CEs)
- Ethics and Technology (3 CEs)
Presenter Applications
We are currently accepting presenter applications for the 988 Training Series.
The ADAMH Engaging Neighborhoods Training Series will announce a call for presenters once the 2026 dates and details are finalized.
At this time, the General Continuing Education program is not accepting applications for presenters for live sessions.
All trainings provided by The Ohio State University must comply with Ohio Revised Code Section 3345.0217 and cannot focus or reference diversity, equity, and inclusion or be intended to benefit only a protected class and that Ohio State reserves the right to terminate any contract that fails to comply with this requirement. For more information about this law please visit the following website: https://compliance.osu.edu/focus-areas/sb1/sb1-implementation-guide.
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.
