Certified guardians must complete twelve hours of continuing education during each two-year certification period. The twelve hours of continuing education must include two hours of ethics and one hour of legislative update. Up to four hours of continuing education may be carried forward for the following certification period's requirements, but ethics hours and legislative update hours do not carry forward. Provisionally certified guardians are subject to the same continuing education requirements as certified guardians. To claim continuing education credit, an activity must be an organized program of learning (no self-study is allowed) and must be approved by the Board. The Board will make every effort to identify relevant activities and post them to the website as approved activities in advance. Approval of continuing education activities may be requested by using the form provided. You will be required to obtain documentation of attendance or completion of CE activities from the sponsoring entity. The Verification of Attendance form may be used if a certificate of attendance/completion is not provided by the sponsoring entity.
Continuing education credit may also be earned by speaking at a seminar, teaching a course, or authoring a book or article. Documentation showing the course or speech is completed, or the book or article is published, will be required. Please use the form provided to request credit for teaching, speaking or writing. Do not submit verification of attendance forms to the Board as you complete the activity; verifications will be required at the time you renew your certification.
NOTE: Under Rule XIII(a), the activity for which approval is sought must be an organized program of learning dealing with matters that are directly related to the guardianship profession, the services guardians provide, and the legal process involved in guardianship proceedings. "Automatic" approval for certain sponsoring entities is not granted; a request form and appropriate supporting documents must be submitted to the Board for approval of each activity. Click here for a list of previously scheduled Board-approved courses. Details on upcoming approved courses are listed below, with approved online courses on a separate page. Approved courses with limited enrollment (e.g., restricted to employees and volunteers of a specific guardianship program) are not listed on the website, but are maintained separately by Board staff. See the Board's Rules VII and XIII for more details.
Upcoming Courses Courses Available Online
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First Friday [Travis County Probate Court]
Sponsored by The Bar Association of Travis County Probate Court No. 1
Register with Tanya Scanlon by e-mail, Tanya.Scanlon@co.travis.tx.us
Detailed descriptions of the upcoming session will be posted each month on the Probate Court's website, www.co.travis.tx.us/probate/CLE_classes.asp.
Registration for each session opens after the previous session is over.
No ethics and no legislative update hours are included. Each session is approved for 1.0 hour, except the two-part Guardianship Ad Litem Certification session, which is approved for 3.0 hours.
February 1, 2013
Travis County Probate Court Nuts & Bolts for Effective Practice
March 1, 2013
Attorney Fees in Probate Court
April 5, 2013 (Part 1) and May 3, 2013 (Part 2)
Guardianship Ad Litem Certification
NOTE: The sponsors offers this as a two-part course, intended for attorneys seeking attorney ad litem certification for guardianship work. Certified guardians may attend as space permits, and you must attend both parts..
August 2, 2013
Heirships for Applicants' Attorneys and Attorneys Ad Litem
October 4, 2013
Accountings: How to Spot Problems
November 1, 2013
The Uncontested Probate Docket: Getting it Right the First Time
December 6, 2013
Changes Coming in 2014 with the New Estates Code - July 12-13, 2013
2013 Texas Autism Research Conference, San Marcos
Sponsored by Texas Autism Research & Resource Center
Register online at http://www.dads.state.tx.us/tarrc/research/2013conference/index.html [approved for 9.0 hours, with no ethics and no legislative update] - July 17, 2013
Legislative Forum - 83rd State Legislative Session Outcomes, Dallas
Sponsored by The Senior Source
Register by phone, 214/823-5700
[approved for 2.0 hours, all in legislative update] - July 30, 2013
TAGS Summer Forum, Fort Worth
Sponsored by Tarrant Area Gerontological Society
Register online at http://www.tagstarrant.org/summer-forum/summer-forum-2013/[approved for 6.25 hours, with no ethics and no legislative update]
- August 8-9, 2013
15th Annual Estate Planning, Guardianship and Elder Law Conference, Galveston
Sponsored by University of Texas School of Law
Register online at https://utcle.org/conferences/ER13/order-form
[approved for 14.0 hours, with 3.25 hours ethics and .75 hour legislative update]
Note: the reference to "guardianship certification" refers to certification for guardians ad litem, not to GCB continuing education for certified guardians.
- August 31-September 2, 2013
2013 NASW/Texas Annual State Conference, Austin
Sponsored by National Association of Social Workers, Texas Chapter
Register online https://m360.naswtx.org/event.aspx?eventID=66324
[Approved for up to 21.50 hours (including pre-conference sessions), with up to 16.5 ethics hours and 1.5 hours legislative update. Please see the Breakdown of Hours by Day for more details.]
- September-October 2013
NGA's Fundamentals Webinar Series
Sponsored by the National Guardianship Association
Register online at http://www.guardianship.org/fundamentals_course.htm
Each module is approved for 1.0 hour, with no ethics and no legislative update
September 11, 2013: Module One, Basics
September 18, 2013: Module Two, Guardian of the Person
September 25, 2013: Module Three, Guardian of the Estate
October 2, 2013: Module Four, Rights and Alternatives
- October 10, 2013
Aging Well and Living Well, Austin
Sponsored by Family Eldercare
Register online at www.familyeldercare.org, or contact Michelle Shaffer by phone (512/483-3569) or e-mail mshaffer@familyeldercare.org
[approved for 2.0 hours, with no ethics and no legislative update] - October 12-15, 2013
NGA Annual Conference, Tampa FL
Sponsored by the National Guardianship Association
Register online http://www.guardianship.org/13Conference/default.htm
[Approved for up to 22.00 hours, with up to 3.50 hours ethics and 1.25 hours legislative update. Please see the Breakdown of Hours by Day for more information.]
Updated: 12-Jul-2013
