2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 309 - MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 309.083 Requirements for certification as alcohol and drug counselors.
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309.083 Requirements for certification as alcohol and drug counselors.
An applicant for certification as an alcohol and drug counselor shall pay the board
the initial fee for certification, and shall:
(1) Be at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(2) Have obtained a baccalaureate degree;
(3) Have completed six thousand (6,000) hours of board-approved experience
working with alcohol or drug dependent persons, three hundred (300) hours of
which shall have been under the direct supervision of a certified alcohol and
drug counselor who has at least two (2) years of post-certification experience;
(4) Have completed at least two hundred seventy (270) classroom hours of
board-approved curriculum;
(5) Have passed a written examination that has been approved by the
International Certification Reciprocity Consortium on Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse and an oral examination approved by the board;
(6) Have signed an agreement to abide by the standards of practice and code of
ethics approved by the board;
(7) Have completed at least six (6) hours of ethics training and two (2) hours of
training in the transmission, control, treatment, and prevention of the human
immunodeficiency virus; and
(8) Have submitted two (2) letters of reference from certified alcohol and drug
counselors.
Effective:June 24, 2003
History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 36, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003. -- Created
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 96, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1996.
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