Professional Continuing Education

GCSW Continuing Education is growing its course training topics and expanding its course delivery options continuously! Our courses meet the requirements for Ethics, Cultural Competency, LCSW-Supervision, and general CEU renewal requirements.

GCSW Continuing Education courses are taught in the following formats:

Instructor-Led Face-to-Face trainings
Instructor-Led Zoom Virtual trainings
Hybrid Format with Both Self-Paced and Zoom Content
Self-Paced online trainings

Select the course topic of interest to you, your favored style of learning, register and join us!

Stay connected throughout the year as we continuously provide quality instruction in interesting, informative, and career-enhancing continuing education courses at your fingertips!

The University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work continuing education courses are designed to equip busy modern human services professionals with practical, interesting, and relevant topics that enhance their professional development and provide the required CEU’s to maintain their licenses. Topics are carefully tailored to provide a broad spectrum of cutting-edge knowledge to assist human services professionals like social workers, educators, nurses, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists who seek to better serve our community. University of Houston GCSW continuing education courses meet CEU requirements for LMSWS and LCSWS. Professionals in other disciplines including LPCs and LMFTs, should verify with their licensing boards that these courses meet their respective CEU requirements. For more information, please call 713-743-8071 or email aliberman@central.uh.edu.

Current CE Course Offerings

Register for CE Courses:

To register and pay by credit card, click here

Suggest CE Course Topics:

We value suggestions from CE course participants in our continuous effort to serve the continuing education needs of the social work community. If there is a CE course topic you would like to suggest we look into facilitating or offering, please contact us at swcareer@central.uh.edu

Propose a CE Course:

If you are interested in presenting a CE course with support from the GCSW Center for Career and Professional Development, please see our application here.

Certification for CEUs for Your Workshops:

The GCSW provides CEUs for outside agency trainings, conferences, and workshops. If you are interested in holding a CE event with CEU certificates provided by the GCSW Center for Career and Professional Development, please contact us at swcareer@central.uh.edu. Applications can be submitted here.

Requesting CE Course Accommodations:

The GCSW and University of Houston are here to equalize access for all CE participants to maximize the opportunity for learning and course engagement. If you need to request a specific accommodation for a CE course, please contact the UH Justin Dart Jr. Student Accessibility Center at 713-743-5400 or JDCenter@central.uh.edu

Additionally, please inform the Director for the GCSW Center for Career and Professional Development, Ann Liberman, at 713-743-8071 or at aliberman@central.uh.edu of your request. In your request, please include the course title, date, time, location, and necessary details to help us understand the accommodation needed.

Requests should be made a minimum of five (5) business days in advance to ensure adequate time to support accommodation request.

Refund Policies for CE Courses:

If you need to withdraw from a course, the stated withdrawal procedures must be followed. Please email us at swcareer@central.uh.edu a minimum of three (3) business days before the course start date so we can begin the refund process. A 10% processing fee will be subtracted from all refunds.

All registrative fees are due at the time of enrollment, and processing fees are non-refundable. Non-attendance does not constitute a withdrawal. Participants who miss part or all of a course are not entitled to a refund.

Registrations are considered to be final as of the start date of the respective course. Refunds may not be issued after the start date of the course, and credits may not be given for future courses. For some courses, it may be possible to transfer your registration with prior notice and confirmation. If you would like to check the availability of these options, contact us at swcareer@central.uh.edu

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