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These courses are for CURRENTLY REGISTERED PSS. If you are looking for initial PSS certification, click here.

Kentucky Peer Support Specialist Continuing Education at NKU

NKU offers free, online, self-paced CEUs for Peer Support Specialists.

Kentucky Peer Support Specialists (PSS) are required to complete 6 hours of continuing education credits (CEU) per year.

We have 12 CEU modules to choose from. Only 3 CEU modules are required annually to maintain your certification. Each module is worth 2 CEUs.

Each module contains a lecture from one of our NKU faculty members. Watch the lecture, then pass the quiz at the end, and a personalized completion certificate will be emailed to you.

The modules we offer are:

  • Helping Skills for Health and Human Services Professionals
  • Crisis Intervention and Trauma Informed Care
  • Substance Use and Addiction
  • Safety Basics for the Field
  • Substance Use and Family Impacts
  • Prevention Approaches for Substance Use in Families
  • Opioid Use, Stigma and Social Connection
  • Harm Reduction
  • Cultural Competence
  • African American
  • Hispanic Populations
  • Skill Building 

Please email Shirley Hoffman at hoffmans6@nku.edu with any questions.