ORIENTATION: Ethical Behavior for the Addiction Professional (10 hours) - NOT APPLICABLE FOR CCAPP MEMBERS

PLEASE STOP AND READ BEFORE YOU PURCHASE - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THIS COURSE - ESPECIALLY FOR CCAPP STUDENTS:

1) Effective July 1, 2025 ALL students seeking to become drug/alcohol professionals in California are required to take a 10-hour orientation course. Our 10-hour course by Kevin Scheel is intended to ensure that all students have a background in ethics, confidentiality, and professional boundaries before starting a course of study that will lead them to a credential as a drug/alcohol professional.

HOWEVER - PLEASE NOTE: CCAPP is currently only accepting the 10-hour course they offer for their initial RADT credentialing.  IF YOU ARE A MEMBER WITH CCAPP DO NOT PURCHASE OUR COURSE. If you are working with any other board in California, this course is still valid for purchase and can be used for your initial credential application.

If you are planning to credential with CCAPP and you need the 10-hour Orientation course for your application please visit CCAPP’s website to purchase their course.  You can purchase the CCAPP approved course directly from their website or by clicking on the following link:

CLICK HERE FOR CCAPP Specific Orientation Course for Purchase

Thank you for your time and attention to this important announcement.  Please do not hesitate to reach out to our staff during business hours if you have any questions during this time.   

Kevin R. Scheel, MS, LADC, MAC, is a Masters prepared chemical dependency counselor and has been active in the human service field since 1974. He has served as the director of programs in the public sector as well as in private care facilities, both in the profit and not-for-profit arenas. He has been involved in the delivery of education services to the field since 1986 as an instructor at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, and as a private training consultant with Hazelden. Mr. Scheel is the author of "Alcohol: Chemistry & Culture," as well as a series of education videotapes on the various drugs of abuse, published and marketed by WRS Group, Inc. He has also created a preparation and review manual that is currently in use by a variety of colleges and universities in Texas, designed to aid students preparing for their Texas chemical dependency credential.

While in Texas Kevin served as the Texas Coordinator for the federally funded Project for Addiction Counselor Training (PACT) program. For this project Mr. Scheel designed a 270 hour curriculum for beginning counselors, delivering over 45,000 hours of classroom training to 415 minority students. As a result of his efforts, 268 of these students have gone on to obtain their credentials to practice chemical dependency counseling in Texas.

Kevin also served in the position as Coordinator for the Texas Addiction Training Center (currently the Texas Addition Technology Transfer Center), a federally funded project from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Washington, D.C. The goal of this project has been to increase the level of addiction education to the various disciplines offering counseling services to drug and alcohol affected clients. In Texas this project worked with 8 major colleges and universities.

Kevin is one of the co-founders of the Distance Learning Center for Addiction Studies (www.dlcas.com). He continues to be active as a writer/author of materials for this training service.

Internet Format - Coursework that is available immediately via a downloadable PDF file (a popular online format that requires you to have the Adobe Reader program, or one similar, installed on your computer). Many websites already use this very user friendly file format, so chances are you already have a PDF reader installed on your computer. This format allows faster downloading, easier reading, and easier printing. All course materials will be included, as will the link to the post-test required for course completion. Access and downloading information will be immediately sent to the email address you provide at checkout. There is no additional charge for this format.

USB Flash Drive Format - Different computers, processors, ISP's, and software make it sometimes difficult or time-consuming to capture materials provided via the Internet. As a result, we've added the Flash Drive format to our list of options. With this format we will send you a Flash Drive by Priority Mail that can be used on any computer, laptop, tablet with a USB port. The drive will include a PDF copy of the course or courses ordered along with the test link needed to complete your course using our online test system. This option will include additional per course costs for materials/shipping/handling.

Hard Copy Format - Coursework that is delivered to you by Priority Mail in book form. All course materials will be included, as will the post-test required for course completion. For immediate results and faster certificate processing an email containing instructions on how to access your post-test online will be sent to the email address provided at checkout. Should you not want to submit the test yourself, a mail/fax form is also included that will allow you to mail or fax your test responses to us for processing. Hard copy courses will include additional per course costs for materials/shipping/handling.