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Occupational Therapy Licensing Board

The Role of the Board

The Board is responsible for protecting the health, safety and welfare of individuals who receive Occupational Therapy services in Oregon. The ROLE of the Oregon OT Licensing Board is to: (1) Investigate complaints and take appropriate action; (2) make and enforce laws and rules regarding OT practice; (3) Establish continuing education requirements; (4) Process applications and issue license and renewals; (5) Collect fees and authorize disbursements of funds. The MISSION of the Board is to protect the public by supervising Occupational Therapy practice.


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Licensee Look Up & Important sites
TO VERIFY an OT's license click below
Reinstating Your license and one-time Pain Management CE
If you wish to reinstate your license, and it lapsed in the last 2 years, contact the Director, Felicia.M.Holgate@state.or.us to obtain a reinstatement form. You must send in CE certificates for the required 30 points.

If you were licensed more than 2 years ago, fill out a new Application form and follow instructions, except you do not need state verifications for those state verifications we already will have in your old file.

Included in the 30 CE points is a required one-time 7 hour Pain Management CE, which has 1-hour free on-line presentation and 6 additional hours. Any classes, including online on the Pain Commission site is fine: www.oregon.gov/DHS/pain/training.shtml

Anyone completing the Pain CE requirement is asked to send an e-mail to Director Felicia.M.Holgate@state.or.us giving the name of the class(es), provider(s), # of credits, and dates completed. We will add that to your data base.

Note: New applicants have 2 years to complete the Pain Management requirement.
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Important information for Oregonians
Preparing for 2012 OT License Renewals
A Jan 2012 Newsletter will give you detail for renewing your license

In 2012 everyone will renew online starting in March 2012 and due May 1, 2012.

IF you are audited for CE you will see that on your renewal form and you will need to send in your CE log and CE certificates. See CE on left menu bar for more information.

SUPERVISION: If you are an OT Assistant working in Oregon your Supervision form should be filed in the board office signed by you and your supervising OTR. If supervison changes, send in a new supervision form prior to start of work.

If we have your paper Supervision Form filed in the office, during the online renewal, you will just fill in the Supervision BOX:

- OT Assistant: list your licensing supervising OT(s).
- OT: list anyone you are supervising for licensing purposes.

This does not mean you list anyone you work with or who is your work supervisor, but rather the licensing supervision required for all OT Assistants working in Oregon. We do cross check what the OT and OT Assistant list.

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