Sectional Certificate Program

In response to the current health crisis, OTI is offering its Sectional Certificate program online starting September 2020 via live video conference.

Classes in the 350- hour program are scheduled as follows:

    ·    Richmond Hill, Queens Program – T, W, Th:  6:30 – 9:30 pm

    ·    Brentwood, LI Program – M, T, W:  6:30 – 9:30 pm

Transferring back to in-person classes will occur once health and safety considerations have been met.  Students will likely have the option to continue on-line classes once in-person classes resume.  Please apply to the program in the location you prefer to attend on your application should you anticipate a future preference for in-person learning.

Applications will be received online and interviews will be conducted virtually.

Please check our homepage regularly for more immediate updates related to the novel coronavirus and COVID-19.

 

Sectional Certificate Program Information

The Sectional Certificate Program is for anyone who has previously completed a portion of the required training hours either at another approved educational training provider, an academic institution, or has obtained their postgraduate degree in one of the five approved fields: social work, mental health counseling, family therapy, creative arts therapy, and psychotherapy/psychoanalysis***.

***IMPORTANT: We recommend applying for your CASAC-T through NYS OASAS to conclusively determine your required CASAC educational hours if you already have a Masters Degree in one of the 5 approved fields listed above.

Applying for your CASAC-T would produce a deficiency report detailing the CASAC sections and hours you need to fulfill the educational requirements towards the CASAC-T. As a standard, any candidate holding any of the above five master’s degrees will need, at minimum, the hours in Section I of the CASAC training.

Depending on your deficiency report, you may or may not need an additional 15 hours of Cultural Competence and 15 hours of Ethics. OASAS takes about 10-12 weeks to process. Visit https://www.oasas.ny.gov/mis/forms/pds/documents/PDS-11.pdf or google “OASAS CASAC-T Application” to access the document.

Course Calendar

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Interested individuals can now submit applications by completing our online application via Google Forms.

 

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