Continuing Education

Certified guardians and provisionally certified guardians must complete twelve hours of continuing education during each two-year certification period. The twelve hours of continuing education must include two hours of ethics and one hour of legislative update. Certified Guardians can carry forward 4 hours of CE to their next certification period. Ethics and Legislative Update hours cannot be carried forward.

To see a list of programs that have been approved by the Commission you must search for the courses via the online certification and licensing system located on our home page. It is not a complete list of all programs in the State of Texas. Rather, it is just a list of courses that have been submitted to and approve by the JBCC.

Please refer to the “Guide to Using the Online System” for step-by-step instructions on how to search for approved CE courses. 

If a course you want to take is not on the list, you must submit an application for course approval to the Commission. Your application will be reviewed to determine if, based on the rules, it would be approved and, if so, for how many hours. You must apply for course approval through the online certification and licensing system. 

Please refer to the Continuing Education page of our website for information on this process. Also, we strongly recommend viewing the pdf slideshow on our website for how to apply for CE online.

Applications are processed as soon as possible. Also, please remember that course approvals must be submitted no later than 2 months before your certification expires.

You must report the JBCC approved CE courses you've taken when you apply for renewal of your certification. You must also submit copies of your certificates of attendance to your renewal application as well.