Tools for staying license-ready.
Practical checklists, guides, templates, and calculators for continuing-education compliance and license renewal, built to work across every licensed profession, from social work and counseling to nursing, medicine, the trades, and accounting. Free to use, plain-language, and grounded in how real practices and professionals actually track their hours.
What to Keep for a CE Audit
What boards ask for when they audit CE, how long every state says to keep certificates, what the audit notice looks like and how long you get to answer, why audits fail, and a printable checklist.
Counseling Compact States: Map, Live States, How It Works
Which states have enacted the Counseling Compact, which are issuing privileges to practice, who qualifies, how to apply through CompactConnect, and why the compact is not reciprocity. Membership verified against the Commission and dated.
US Mental Health Workforce: Open Dataset
Where 1.4M+ active mental-health providers practice, with per-capita density for every state and county from the NPPES registry, provider-type mix, and registry-entry trends. Free CSV downloads, CC BY 4.0.
State of Mental Health CE Requirements 2026
The annual report: CE-burden rankings across all 50 states for LCSW, LPC, LMFT, and licensed psychologists, ethics-minimum coverage, online CE caps, and one-time mandates — from 400+ board-verified rulesets.
What Counts as Ethics CE
A practical guide to what boards and credentialing bodies usually mean by ethics CE, where requirements differ, and how to verify a course before renewal.
Group Practice CE Compliance Checklist
A 15-section operational checklist for tracking clinician licenses, renewals, ethics hours, and audit readiness across a whole roster.
Psychologist CE Requirements by State
What each state board asks of licensed psychologists to renew: total hours, ethics or law minimums, and one-time mandates like suicide-risk training, sourced from the board itself for all 50 states.
Psychologist CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed psychologist still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
Ethics CE Requirements by State
Every state's explicit ethics minimum for LCSW, LPC, LMFT, and psychologist licensees in one table, with each board's own name for the requirement and links to the full rules.
Online CE Limits by State
Which states still cap self-study or recorded CE — the exact hour caps, percentage caps, and live-hours minimums, plus the states with no stated limit.
Baker Act Training in Florida
Who actually needs a Baker Act certificate, what the training covers, whether it counts toward Florida CE hours, and how to pick an online course.
Florida Domestic Violence CE Requirement
The one-time 2-hour course due after initial licensure and the 2 hours due every third renewal, for Florida LCSW, LMHC, and LMFT licensees.
Florida Qualified Supervisor Training
The 12-hour course to become a board-qualified supervisor for Florida registered interns, plus the 4-hour refresher due every third renewal.
Florida Laws & Rules CE
The 8-hour pre-licensure laws and rules course, the 3-hour CE due every third renewal, and how the two requirements differ.
LMFT CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed marriage and family therapist still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LPC CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed professional counselor still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LCSW CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed clinical social worker still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LCSW CE Requirements by State
What each state board asks of licensed clinical social workers to renew: total hours, ethics, and any state-specific categories, sourced from the board itself.
LPC CE Requirements by State
What each state board asks of licensed professional counselors to renew: hour totals, ethics, and the categories unique to that board, sourced from the board itself.
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