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Certification and renewal of certification are
very important to the NACC and its members. But they are
long processes with many steps, and it is natural that questions
will arise about the requirements.When the Certification Commission reviews my Renewal of Certification materials, what is helpful to them on the Education Report Form?
It is helpful to be as specific as possible in your description of activity. You should include the title and author of books, articles, and audio/video recordings, names of presenters and titles of programs.
In addition, it is helpful to indicate in parentheses next to the activity whether it is a book, article, audio/video recording, seminar, workshop, conference, etc. For seminars, workshops, conferences or presentations, please designate each activity as “A” for attended or “P” for presented. Remember at least five hours of continuing education in each category documented annually are to reflect your attendance at, rather than the presentation of seminars, workshops, or conferences.
For example:
Description of Activity:
Providence Center for Health Care Ethics “Creative and Controversial Ways to Manage Addiction” with Timothy Christie, Ph.D. (audio conference) (“A”)
Dates:
May 15, 2007
Hours:
1.5
Routine activities which occur as part of your professional job responsibilities may not be submitted as continuing education activities.
Who can I arrange to be a peer reviewer for me for Renewal of Certification?
For Chaplains, the peer reviewer must be an active or retired, certified NACC member (Chaplain or CPE Supervisor) who may not have a reporting relationship with the peer reviewer. (CP 233.2)
For CPE Supervisors, a peer review must be conducted with at least two other CPE Supervisors, one of whom must be an active or retired, certified NACC CPE Supervisor. The CPE Supervisor arranges the composition of the peer review team avoiding anyone with whom he/she has a reporting relationship. (CP 531.3)
2010 Renewal of Certification Applications
Renewal Reminder Letters were mailed to those members due to renew their certification by 12/31/2010.
Thank you to members who submitted 2010 Renewal of Certification Applications early. These renewal materials will be reviewed at our upcoming Certification Commission meeting, which will be held July 8-10, 2010, (Milwaukee, WI), and Notification Letters will be mailed, via U.S. Postal Service, by August 10, 2010.
For those of you working on your Renewal of Certification Application and materials, please note there is still time to submit. Items received by June 25, 2010, will be reviewed at our July 2010 Certification Commission meeting.
*Please Note: For those members requiring notification prior to December 31, 2010, it will be necessary to submit your Renewal Application and materials in time to be reviewed at our last Commission meeting of the year (October 2010). Although you have until December 31, 2010, to complete the process, we urge you not to wait until November or December unless you are okay with waiting until mid 2011 for your notification letter.
2010 Renewal of Certification Materials
Please be sure to visit www.nacc.org/certification/renewal.asp to print your renewal of certification materials.
How do I count continuing education hours within the revised NACC standards?
We continue to receive calls from our members regarding how to categorize/count their continuing education hours within the framework of the revised NACC standards. Go to www.nacc.org/certification/renewal.asp for guidelines and suggestions, particularly noting the Certification Procedures Manual section on Renewal of Certification. A very helpful document which compares our old Standards with our Revised Standards is the Parallel of 2-2006 NACC Standards and Revised 11-2007 Standards at the same location.