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.
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.
Coming Soon – Pilot Test Participants Wanted
The General Continuing Education program will be launching several asynchronous trainings in 2026, and we are looking for Pilot Testers.
All self-paced trainings must be pilot tested, and this is an excellent opportunity to receive free CE credits for your time.
Pilot testing verifies the number of CE clock hours for a training and assesses the suitability, utility, and clarity of the training content and structure.
To be a Pilot Tester, you must be a licensed Social Worker or other licensed behavioral health professional.
If you are interested in being added to our announcements when a training is open for pilot testing, please complete the following form: Pilot Tester Interest Form .
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.
