The Office of Continuing Education is a leader in providing lifelong education to social work professionals and creating an 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, with trainings that cover the topics most important to you.

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Live Trainings

Register for upcoming live, in-person events and scheduled Zoom-based webinars.

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Self-Paced Catalog

Browse and search across our catalog of recorded webinars and self-paced learning trainings.

What’s New 2 NEW Ethics Self-Paced Trainings Available Now:

Ethics

The Ethics of School Social Workers: Are You as Ethical as You Can Be?

Participants will actively engage in this ethics training related to working in a school setting via self-reflection of their own practice, review of case scenarios and development of an individual ethics enhancement plan.
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3 CEs
$70
Ethics

Ethics and Technology in Social Work Practice

Master the updated NASW digital ethics standards and learn how to build a professional online presence, responsibly integrate AI, and safeguard client care from common virtual pitfalls.
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3 CEs
$70

Cost for Continuing Education Trainings:

General CE live and asynchronous trainings follow this price scale:

  • 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.

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.

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