(a) Licenses and certifications may be renewed every two (2) years by providing the Board with the following: - (i) Payment of the renewal fee;
- (ii) Complete application for renewal; and
- (iii) Compliance with the continuing education requirements set out below.
(b) Each licensee and certificate holder shall earn a minimum of forty-five (45) contact hours of continuing education during each renewal period. - (i) Contact hours for purposes of this section shall be the actual number of hours during which instruction was received. A contact hour shall consist of not less than fifty (50) minutes of actual instruction or presentation. For academic courses, one (1) semester credit equals fifteen (15) contact hours. One (1) quarter credit equals ten (10) contact hours.
- (ii) Only those hours acquired during the renewal period will be considered.
- (A) For initial renewal, the renewal period begins on the license or certification issue date and ends on the licensee's or certificate holder's birth date immediately following the second anniversary of the issue date. Subsequent renewals shall take place every two (2) years.
- (iii) The following standards shall govern acceptability of continuing education activities:
- (A) These activities shall have significant intellectual or practical content, and the primary objective shall be to increase the participant's competence within each licensed or certified discipline.
- (B) The scope of practice for each discipline in these rules and regulations may be used as a basis of what knowledge and skills are acceptable to the Board as continuing education activities.
- (C) Providers of acceptable continuing education shall have a graduate degree.
- (D) Continuing education credit will be allowed for making presentations designed to increase other mental health professionals' knowledge base. One (1) hour of credit will be allowed for each hour of presentation, up to a maximum of six (6) hours during each renewal period. Credit may be received only once for a particular presentation topic.
- (I) Individuals employed by universities and colleges may not claim credit units for conducting courses that are a part of the regular course offering of those institutions, even if those courses are offered in the evening or summer, or for individuals enrolled in a degree program or vocational or technical schools.
- (iv) Licensees and certificate holders shall attest to the number of continuing education hours completed.
- (v) Licensees and certificate holders shall report their continuing education activities in a manner determined by the Board.
- (A) Licensees and certificate holders shall maintain copies of any certificates of attendance, letters certifying attendance, transcripts, or any official documents which serve as proof of participation or attendance for at least two (2) years from the date submitted for renewal.
- (B) Proof of attendance shall contain the activity title, dates, contact hours attended, sponsor, presenter, qualifications of the presenter, the name of the licensee or certificate holder, and shall be signed by the sponsor or the presenter.
- (vi) Licensees and certificate holders are responsible for maintaining their own continuing education documentation.
- (vii) Approximately sixty (60) days prior to the renewal date the Board should send a renewal notice to the licensee's or certificate holder's last address of record.
- (viii) Renewal applications shall not be accepted more than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the expiration date.
- (ix) Renewal applications received by the Board which are postmarked after the expiration date, or after the next business day in cases when the expiration date falls on a weekend or holiday, will not be accepted by the Board, and the license or certification will become null and void for failure to timely and sufficiently secure renewal. Electronic renewal applications will not be accepted after midnight on the expiration date.
- (x) Failure to receive a notice for renewal from the Board does not excuse a licensee or certificate holder from the requirement for renewal under the Act and these rules.
(c) Each person holding a LAT, CAP, or CAPA shall complete at least fifteen (15) hours of continuing education in addictions topics during the renewal period.
(d) All licensees and certificate holders shall complete at least three (3) contact hours of continuing education activities in professional ethics during the renewal period.
078-14 Wyo. Code R. § 14-1