{"id":582,"date":"2014-11-13T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T15:08:14","slug":"have-you-heard-about-act-31-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/11\/13\/have-you-heard-about-act-31-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard about Act 31 in Pennsylvania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who are licensed in Pennsylvania must comply with new education and training requirements under the Child Protective Services Law &#8211; Act 31, section 6311. \u00a0Effective January 1, 2015, <strong>all<\/strong>\u00a0licensed health care workers (and funeral directors), <strong>must complete<\/strong> DPW-approved (Department of Public Works) <strong>training<\/strong> in child abuse recognition and reporting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>For new license applications: \u00a0A minimum of 3 hours of training is required.<\/p>\n<p>For license renewals: \u00a0A minimum of 2 hours of training is required.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the law and links to approved training is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.state.pa.us\/portal\/server.pt\/community\/state_board_of_occupational_therapy\/12518\/licensure_information\/572069\" target=\"_blank\">State Board of Occupational Therapy Education and License<\/a>. \u00a0The list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.state.pa.us\/portal\/server.pt\/community\/con_ed_providers\/21920\" target=\"_blank\">currently approved training<\/a> will be updated on a regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who are licensed in Pennsylvania must comply with new education and training requirements under the Child Protective Services Law &#8211; Act 31, section 6311. \u00a0Effective January 1, 2015, all\u00a0licensed health care workers (and funeral &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/11\/13\/have-you-heard-about-act-31-in-pennsylvania\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have you heard about Act 31 in Pennsylvania?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topics","category-news-and-accomplishments","category-research-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}