Renew Your CPI Certification
Certified Instructors must attend renewal training every two years to maintain their certification. Our renewal process sharpens your confidence and skills, through refreshed scenarios and networking with your peers to learn from their unique experiences.
Maintain Your Certification and Skills
To build and maintain staff skills in de-escalation and crisis prevention, training must be an ongoing process. Renewing your CPI certification every two years allows you to uphold your Certified Instructor status and ensures you are providing your organization with the most updated techniques and resources.
By following these best practices, you’re helping your organization achieve and sustain its skill development goals for you and your staff.
Certified Instructors
To help gauge proficiency and prevent training drift, we require Certified Instructors to attend a program facilitated by CPI every two years.
This ensures your success in instructing staff on any restrictive and non-restrictive intervention skills, empowering them and instilling confidence in their ability to address all levels of risk behavior. And a team of empowered staff means greater support for your organization.
Your Trained Staff
Your organization’s policy should determine how frequently staff need to be re-trained. We recommend that Certified Instructors conduct refresher training for staff at least once every 6-12 months, and in accordance with CPI’s recommended practices for content and program length.
Renew and Enhance Your Training with a Specialty Topic
Specialty Topic training is available alongside our foundational Verbal Intervention, Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, and NCI With Advanced Physical Skills programs. When you renew your certification, consider adding one of our specialty topics below to enhance your training for specific staff roles and the individuals you serve.
Frequently Asked Questions About Renewal Training
Certified Instructors must attend a renewal training every two years to maintain their certification. Your renewal cycle begins on the day of your original certification.
Renewals are required to maintain your certification and ensure your ability to provide the most updated de-escalation techniques. The renewal process sharpens your confidence and skills through refreshed scenarios and networking with your peers to learn from their unique experiences.
To begin the renewal process, view the available programs here. You can also customize your renewal by adding specialty content, such as Mental Health techniques, to tailor your training to specific staff roles and the individuals you serve.
CPI certification is valid for 2 years from the date of your original certification. This applies to both Certified Instructors and participants who receive Blue Card® Certification.
To maintain your certification, you must attend a renewal training every two years. The renewal process is designed to sharpen your confidence and skills through refreshed scenarios and networking opportunities with peers to learn from their unique experiences. Renewals are required to ensure your ability to provide the most updated de-escalation techniques.
Your renewal cycle begins on the day of your original certification, so it's important to track this date to ensure you renew on time.
Renewal and refresher courses serve different purposes and have different requirements within CPI's training system.
Renewal training is a mandatory requirement for Certified Instructors to maintain their certification status. Certified Instructors must attend renewal training every two years. This renewal process focuses on sharpening confidence and skills through refreshed scenarios and networking opportunities with peers to learn from their unique experiences.
Refresher training, on the other hand, is optional and can be attended at any time. Certified Instructors can attend refresher trainings for their program at any time prior to their renewal dates. The purpose of refresher training is to help Certified Instructors regularly review and renew their own training to build proficiency, prevent training drift, and update their knowledge.
In essence, renewal training is a mandatory certification maintenance requirement with a fixed two-year schedule, while refresher training is a voluntary professional development opportunity available whenever a Certified Instructor feels they need to strengthen their skills or knowledge.
CPI certification renewals require in-person attendance at a training program facilitated by CPI every two years. The renewal process involves attending a renewal training that sharpens your confidence and skills through refreshed scenarios and networking with peers to learn from their unique experiences.
While you can initiate the renewal process online, the actual certification renewal must be completed through attending a CPI-facilitated training program rather than through online coursework alone. Your renewal cycle begins on the day of your original certification, and renewals are required to maintain your certification and ensure your ability to provide the most updated de-escalation techniques.
CPI certifications for participants are valid for two years from the date of original certification. To maintain certification, participants must re-attend a CPI training program facilitated by CPI every two years.
The renewal process is designed to keep skills current and ensure training reflects the most up-to-date approaches to Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security℠. As participants approach the two-year mark, they will be invited to renew their certification.
For Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® Training, participants can renew through the standard Renewal Certification Program or choose from specialized renewal options focusing on trauma, mental health, ADHD, or autism. The renewal training sharpens confidence and skills through refreshed scenarios and provides networking opportunities with peers to learn from their unique experiences.
Participant workbooks support both initial and refresher training programs, ensuring continuity between original certification and renewal.