New Jersey Clinical Social Worker CE requirements

Licensed Clinical Social Worker — license renewal requirements, sourced from the official board.

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Renewal: Licenses expire August 31 of even-numbered years. No more than 8 CE credit hours may be completed in one day; up to 18 excess hours may be carried into the succeeding biennial period.

Required categories

Content Directly Related to Clinical Practice
20h
Social and Cultural Competency
3h
Ethics
5h
Prescription Opioid Drugs
1h

Details

40 credit hours of CE per biennial renewal period. Mandatory topic breakdown (5 ethics, 3 social/cultural competency, 1 prescription opioid, 20 clinical practice content) is per CE-provider summaries of Board requirements; the regulation confirms the 40-hour total and carry-over provisions. A licensee licensed in the second year of a biennial period must complete 10 hours, including 2 ethics.

Official source: New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners

⚠️Board rules change. Verify every figure against the official source before relying on it.

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