All CDM, CFPPs are required to earn 45 continuing education (CE) hours every three years. Nine of the 45 hours must pertain to sanitation and food safety and beginning June 1, 2019, one hour must pertain to professional ethics. You are permitted to earn more than nine CE hours in sanitation/food safety and more than one hour in professional ethics. Additional hours will be automatically converted to General hours. CE hours can be earned and reported while actively certified and in the current three-year period.
Once CE hours have been earned for a specific program, the program cannot be resubmitted for credit again, regardless of whether it is a new certification period. Also, extra CE hours do not carry over from one, three-year period to another. Credit can only be earned once for any given program. View additional information on maintaining the credential HERE.
For questions regarding a prior CE period, please contact CBDM at info@CBDMonline.org or 800-323-1908.
June 2014 began the self-reporting process where CDMs started tracking their own continuing education (CE) hours and submitting them into their record for the current three-year reporting cycle.
Effective June 1, 2019, CDMs are now required to submit all CE hours electronically by the end of their three-year recertification cycle. When submitting a CE program, all required documentation must also be electronically uploaded via the My Certification page. Physical, e-mailed, or faxed documentation sent to CBDM will not be accepted or returned. If a program is prior-approved, the only required documentation is proof of completion. If a CE program is not prior-approved, several different forms of verifiable documentation are required, and the documentation must be uploaded at the time the CE is submitted.
If you do not have your own computer, there are viable solutions such as mobile devices, tablets, or utilizing public computers.
For detailed information pertaining to required documentation for CE programs, click HERE. For additional guidance and a list of frequently asked questions, click HERE. View a video tutorial and step-by-step instructions below.
CDMs should retain copies of all documentation for each program uploaded to the My Certification page for at least two consecutive three-year CE cycles.