Guardianship Certification

• (Fully) certified guardians must complete twelve hours of continuing education during each two-year certification period.
• Provisionally certified guardians must complete twelve hours of continuing education during their two-year provisional certification period.

The twelve hours of continuing education must include two hours of ethics and one hour of legislative update. You can carry forward up to 4 hours of excess CE to your next certification period. Ethics and Legislative Update hours cannot be carried forward.

• Example for fully certified guardians:
  • You are required to obtain 12 hours of CE, but you obtained 16 hours of approved CE for your 2024 renewal.
  • A maximum of the 4 excess hours of non-ethics\legislative update CE can be used towards your 2026 renewal as well.
  • You must select the course and upload the certificate again so that it is attached to your 2026 online renewal application.
    
    
• Example for provisionally certified guardians:
  • You are required to obtain 12 hours of CE, but you obtained 16 hours during your 2-year provisional certification period. Those hours must be reported when you apply to be a fully certified guardian.
  • A maximum of the 4 excess hours of non-ethics\legislative update CE can be used towards your 2024-2026 full certification's renewal period.
  • You must select the course and upload the certificate again so that it is attached to your 2026 online renewal application.

Refer to sections 4.0 and 7.7 of the JBCC Rules for additional details on CE requirements.