Earn up to 15 CE Hours
Includes 3 Ethics CE Hours
and
3 Cultural Diversity CE Hours
 
Intermediate to Advanced Training for Clinicians
 
.Program Focus and Goals
The Institute of Behavioral Healthcare is the producer of the Summit for Clinical Excellence Conferences, a premier provider of continuing education for behavioral health, mental health and addiction, professionals. We bring together the best and brightest trainers from many disciplines offering a broader perspective to help our therapists and counselors better address the issues that their client is facing day to day.
 
Conference Objectives:
1. To identify current evidence-based, specific diagnostic and treatment approaches, counseling skills and modalities that will be successfully applied to the fields of mental health, behavioral health and addictive disorders; including but not limited to: Co-Occurring Disorders, Ethics, Addiction and Trauma.
2. To identify the symptoms and characteristics of the disorders mentioned in objective #1 and how they have interfered with the clients’ interpersonal and family relationships.
3. To participate in skill-building sessions and unique training that offer cognitive and experiential clinical techniques to assist in patient/client recovery from these listed disorders.
 
We provide CE Hours, not CE Units (CEU's). A CE Hours is based on 60 minutes of educational instruction, whereas a CE Unit (CEU) is based on a collection of CE Hours.
 
The Summit for Clinical Excellence will offer Continuing Education from the following organizations.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AMA, The American Medical Association, Category 2 CME Credit, Self Claiming
This program has not been submitted for Category 1 CME but can be considered for Category 2 Self claiming credit.
Category 2 activities are self-designated by those applying for the PRA. In order to determine the number of Category 2 credits to be declared, physicians should record the actual number of hours spent in the learning activity. Category 2 credits do not need to be documented or verified by an external party. It is recommended that physicians maintain on-going records of these activities in preparation for submission of information for the Physician's Recognition Award.
Credit may be claimed for Physicians, Category 2
For more information https://cme.ucsd.edu/docs/ama_pra_system_what_every_physician_should_know.pdf
APA - American Psychological Association
The Addiction Professional Summit continuing education co-sponsor, CE Learning Systems, LLC, is approved by American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Credit may be claimed for psychologists.
Addiction Professional Summit’s continuing education co-sponsor, CE Learning Systems, LLC, dba CE-credit.com has been approved to offer continuing education credit for Certified Addiction Specialists (CAS) in accordance with the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders. AHCPAD provider number is: 18-1460.
Credit may be claimed for all Certified Addiction Specialists (CAS).
ASWB
CE Learning Systems (Provider #1020) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of State Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education ACE program. CE Learning Systems LLC maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 02/23/2016 – 02/23/2019. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive up to 12 continuing education clock hours.
Credit may be claimed for social workers.
 
California Board of Behavioral Sciences - CA BBS
CA BBS does not offer provider status anymore.

Any professional belonging to the CA BBS make take a course that is approved by a national approval agency (APA, ASWB) and still receive credit for it.
 
CCAPP - The California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals
This program has been approved.
CCAPP is an approved provider., provider Number OS-11-154-0819
Approval Period 08-30-2017 to 08-30-2019.
 
 CAARR and CAADAC have become The California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP). 
Credit may be claimed for all drug counselors, CCS- Certified Clinical Supervisor and CCPS -Certified Clinical Supervisor.
 
IC&RC- International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium
This program is approved by IC&RC. 
IC&RC establishes, monitors, and advances reciprocal competency standards for eight reciprocal credentials: Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ADC), Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor (AADC), Clinical Supervisor (CS) Prevention Specialist (PS)  Certified Criminal Justice Addictions Professional (CCJP) Certified Co-Occurring Disorders Professional (CCDP) Certified Co-Occurring Disorders Professional Diplomate (CCDPD), Peer Recovery (PR).
NBCC, National Board for Certified Counselors
Vendome Group, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6791.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Vendome Group, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Credit may be claimed for counselors.
 
 
NASW
Most state boards accept both NASW and ASWB for Social Work approval. For Social Workers attending the event, please refer to your state licensing requirements for renewal.
 
Nursing Credentaling
We currently do not offer nursng CE.
 
STATE ORGANIZATIONS
Arizona Board for Certification of Addiction Counselors
The board accepts NBCC approval for the following disciplines for certification for Arizona.
Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (AADC), Alcohol and Drug Counselor (ADC), Certified Criminal Justice Addictions Professional (CCJP), Clinical Supervisor (CS), Peer Recovery (PR), Prevention Specialist (PS).  Vendome Group (Summit for Clinical Excellence) is an Approved Continuing Education Provide of NBCC, ACEP No. 6791. 
 
New Mexico Credentialing Board for Behavioral Health Professionals, Inc. 
The New Mexico Credentialing Board for Behavioral Health Professionals (NMCBBHP) is a proud member of the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (IC&RC) for the purpose of credentialing qualified alcohol and drug counselors, criminal justice professionals, and prevention specialists. IC&RC standards and exams are used exclusively by IC&RC Boards. NMCBBHP, Inc., is independently run and operated with their own jurisdictionally specific processes
 
New York State
Vendome Group's Co-Sponsor, CE Learning Systems SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0060.

State Boards:
Because regulations and guidelines do change, please check with your state licensing board to ensure that nationally approved courses can be used to satisfy your continuing education needs. In most cases state licensing boards allow courses for re-certification if they are nationally approved.
 
ADA Support / Disability Accommodation
Summit for Clinical Excellence is designed with accessibility in mind, and in accordance with the ADA of the amended United States Rehabilitation Act.  Up until thirty days prior to the conference, we welcome the opportunity to assist with disability accommodations. You may request information by emailing Abbegayle Morrow amorrow@iabhc.com.
 
CE Questions:
For specific questions please email jbelon@vendomegrp.com. Please reference the conference name when emailing.
 
 
 
The Association for the Addiction Professionals - NAADAC
This course has been approved by Vendome Group, LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider # 99312, Vendome Group LLC is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
Credit may be claimed for counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals.