**Addiction and Prevention Professionals Board Reorganizes Licensing Rules** The South Dakota Board of Addiction and Prevention Professionals is completely restructuring its regulations for licensing and certifying addiction counselors, prevention specialists, and peer support providers. The board is repealing all existing chapters and replacing them with new, reorganized chapters that consolidate requirements for education, work experience, supervision, examinations, and credential renewal into a clearer structure. While the core requirements for becoming certified or licensed—such as education degrees, work hours, supervised experience, and passing exams—largely remain the same, this overhaul reorganizes how those standards are presented and adds new rules for peer support services and clarifies electronic service delivery requirements.
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The effect of the rules will be to: set the education, work experience, supervision, and examination requirement for peer support services; update the education, work experience, supervision and examination requirements for addiction counseling and prevention services; establish the requirements of board approved supervision to meet the requirements for the board to certify or license providers of peer support, addiction counseling and prevention services; set the standards for renewal of a recognition, certification or license issued by the Board; and clarify the standards for providing services through electronic means.
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