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Certification & WELCOA Faculty
+ Earn Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Advance in your career and gain recognition for your accomplishments with WELCOA Certified and WELCOA Faculty designations. WELCOA Certified and WELCOA Faculty Designations are ideal for human resource professionals, workplace wellness professionals, workplace wellness consultants, health promotional professionals, occupational health nurses, health coaches, dieticians, insurance and benefit providers and brokers across North America.
WELCOA Certified
Demonstrates commitment to workplace wellness. This certification gives you the tools, knowledge and critical competencies to manage, plan, design and implement and measure workplace wellness programs. Choose from a variety of Workplace Wellness Certifications, Nutrition Certifications, Stress-Management Certifications and Fitness Certifications.
REQUIREMENTS: Completion of one WELCOA Certificate Course.
WELCOA Faculty Designation
Demonstrates exceptional commitment and dedication to pursuing excellence in workplace wellness. WELCOA Faculty Members are poised to address a higher level of challenges faced in today’s organizations: containing health care costs, improving productivity within healthy employees, reducing the costs of injury on the job and engaging employees in long-term well-being.
REQUIREMENTS: Completion of four WELCOA Certificate Courses (approximately 24 hours of on-going training within a 2 year period).
Faculty Earning & Maintenance Criteria
To earn WELCOA Faculty status, Members must complete four WELCOA Certificate Courses on the WELCOA Institute. Alternatively, a Current Events Certification is awarded for every four non-Certificate Courses completed. WELCOA Faculty must complete at least one additional Certificate Course every two years and be an active WELCOA Member in good standing to maintain Certified Faculty Status.
Continuing Education Opportunities
Select Certificate and Non-Certificate courses from WELCOA are approved for:
- Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI®) HR/General recertification hours toward HRCI® designations.
- Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
The purpose of WELCOA’s assessment-based certificate program is to build professional capacity and recognition of instruction and training in worksite wellness. Through WELCOA’s webinars and certificate courses, participants acquire specific knowledge, skills and competencies. Mastery of learning objectives is assessed. Training does not expire and acronyms are not provided for use after name. Longer courses may be referred to as a certification course on occasion, however, the participant is awarded a certificate of completion.
Reference: Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), Defining Features of Quality Certification and Assessment-based Certificate Programs, 2010. www.credentialingexcellence.org
Get Started with WELCOA Now
Choose a Membership Plan that fits your wellness team. No matter the size of your organization, you will be well-equipped with the training and tools you need. WELCOA Membership is ideal for workplace wellness professionals, human resource professionals, business leaders and benefits consultants/brokers.
Team Membership
Resources + Institute & Certifications
WELCOA membership provides the tools, information and resources you need to build and sustain successful wellness programs. All WELCOA Certificate Courses and Trainings are included.
Single Person Membership
Resources + Institute & Certifications
WELCOA membership provides the tools, information and resources you need to build and sustain successful wellness programs. All WELCOA Certificate Course and Trainings are included.
The Seven Benchmarks training exceeded my expectations. It provided valuable insights and useful information that I can use immediately to increase program effectiveness.
Robert Harris | AVP of Professional Development
I absolutely love WELCOA certification courses! They are very informative, timely and provide useful subject matter. The additional resources are great tools to have on hand.
Nicole Consiglio | Workforce Health Consultant
I cannot tell you enough how all of you at WELCOA are such valuable assets. If you are not a big company and don’t have large budgets, you really need great resources like WELCOA.
Penny Paul | Community Health Education Specialist
