Online Learning: Affordable, Accessible, and Convenient


CE4Alliance.com, the new online continuing education program provided by Families in Society and its publisher, the Alliance for Children and Families, is now available.
 
At a time when budgets are tight and dwindling, you may find your options for providing quality and cost-effective staff development opportunities becoming more limited. The Alliance recognizes this dilemma and is working to help you and your staff keep up-to-date, learn from the innovators, and earn credits.

 
Consider trying the expanded online CE program, CE4Alliance. The flexibility and affordability are additional advantages to a program that provides competent, consistent, and interdisciplinary learning. Courses can be purchased for individuals, or agencies can purchase blocks of credits (discounted bulk pricing) to distribute to their employees.
 
Over 100 courses arranged in 20 topic categories are available relating to child welfare; family preservation; casework practice with child, teenage or older adult clients; mental health; spirituality; ethics; and much more. To view the full 2008 course catalog (pdf), click here.
 
Materials feature practical and clinical instruction relating to innovative programs and policies and working with diverse client groups. These courses are suitable for social workers, professional therapists, counselors, and other health professionals.
 
Designed to help satisfy licensing and certification requirements with automated online exams, online scoring and certificate printing, this CE program is affordable, accessible, and convenient. Courses are accredited with many national and state organizations, with new approvals added frequently.
 
Click here for an overview of the program with instructions for taking a course.
 

For more information about continuing education regulation specifically for social workers and requirements for individual states and provinces in the United States and Canada, visit the Association of Social Work Boards Web site. The ASWB assists social work regulatory bodies in carrying out their legislated mandates, and encourages jurisdictional efforts to protect a diverse public served by social workers who are regulated through common values, ethics, and practice standards.
 
 


 
CE4Alliance Benefits

• Extremely cost-effective training and staff development opportunities.

• Quick, easy and convenient access to a versatile continuing education format.

• Funders and accreditation services value your commitment
  to excellence and continuous quality improvement (CQI).

• Creates a more informed and educated workforce.

• Compliments offsite CE seminars and workshops for a fraction of the cost.

• Pre-purchase course coupons that can be distributed to your staff.
   You can even select specific courses as mandatory for your employees.

"This program is one of the things that keeps me so happy with the Alliance. You are doing such a great job giving me information and connections that have been so incredibly helpful."
Mary C. Hargrave, Ph.D.
President
River Oak Center for Children
Carmichael, CA

"The CE4Alliance program
is wonderful. Thank you for having insight and giving
us professionals this opportunity."
James Jones, ACSW
President & CEO
Family Service of NW Ohio
Toledo, OH

"This is very exciting;
I sent the info out to our professional staff and
expect they will be utilizing this program."
Nyla K. Woods
President & CEO
Family Svcs of Greater Houston
Houston, TX

"I just took the e-mail about CE4Alliance in to our director of programs and she raised her arms and said 'woo-hoo!' She is passing it on to clinical staff today. Thank you for this great resource!"
Janine M. Ouderkirk LMSW, ACSW, CEO
Family and Children's Svcs
   of Midland (MI)

"This is a great resource for myself and my staff."
Christina Hemmer M.Ed., LAPC
Employee Learning and 
   Development Coordinator
Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch
Fargo, ND

“The ethics courses provide superb training. I plan to use this in our local private practice group.”
Dorothy Burd, LCSW, President
Lighthouse Counseling
Jacksonville, NC

"The online courses were extremely easy to use."
Paige Osborne, In-home Family Svcs Coord.
Lutheran Services in Iowa
Muscatine, IA

"Everyone who has used the online CE system has been very pleased with it."
Terry Patton, Human Resources Manager
Provident Counseling
St. Louis, MO