About the Program

Professionals seeking training and preparation for certification in Life Care Planning will find the University of Florida’s certificate program a dynamic, interactive learning environment. Topics addressed in the extensive curriculum include:

Professional Orientation to Life Care Planning
Spinal Cord Injury: Adult and Pediatric
Brain Injury: Adult and Pediatric
Amputations: Adult and Pediatric
Multiple Physical and Psychological Disabilities
Standards, Case Management, Ethics, and Expert
Testimony in Life Care Planning

In order to complete the certificate participants are required to complete five on-line courses, one short residual institute and one applied practice project. The on-line courses have an open enrollment period so participants can enroll at any time. The weekend residential institutes are offered every six months at different geographic locations across the country.

Online courses utilize audio and video lectures, electronic slideshows, chat room interaction with faculty, online guest lectures, web site field trips, exercises, and other techniques designed to support mastery of the material.

The on-site residential institute will provide participants with a chance to experience the consultation and testimony process as well as an opportunity to work through several exercises in ethical decision making. In this practical setting, students perform a series of applied exercises that allow them to bring together and utilize all of the theoretical knowledge and skills learned during the online experience.

Participants receive training in testimony and participate in a mock testimony experience to affirm the student’s eventual role as an expert. The on-site program also grants students the opportunity to socially network and interact directly with some of the most experienced and well known life care planners in the field.

At the end of the on-site residential institute each participant will be issued an optional comprehensive applied practice project. The applied practice project is not required in order to complete the certificate program, however it is required in order to apply for LCP certification (through the International Commission on Health Care Certification). You can either register and pay to have the applied projected reviewed and graded by our faculty, or you can complete and submit it to the ICHCC for review prior to applying for certification.

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