APPROVED
CORRESPONDENCE/HOME STUDY PROGRAMS
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The following programs are all of the
correspondence and home study variety, and they have been approved for
continuing education credit for Kansas licensed embalmers and funeral
directors. The maximum Kansas credit allowed for any single
correspondence or home study program is three (3) hours. Licensees
cannot accumulate more than six (6) hours of credit for programs of
this nature during any single two-year licensing renewal period.
For all programs added since last
update we have marked ADDED
with the corresponding date.
1) The following home study
on-line programs have been approved for three
(3) hours credit each. They are
sponsored by All Star Professional
Training, PO Box 808, Arlington, TX 76004. For
additional information,
please contact: Michaele Watson at 1 (817) 259-0980
or by email: allstar@allstarce.com
Their website is:www.allstarce.com
three (3)
hours credit each:
"Funeral Services"
"HIV/AIDS"
"General Topics for Funeral Directors/Embalmers"
"Mortuary
Science"
"Business Management/Management Functions"
2) The following home study
programs have been approved for three
(3) hours credit each. They are
sponsored by 100% Education (McKissock,
LP.) For additional information, please contact: Ms.
Jennifer Schutt, Regulatory Compliance Specialist, 100% Education, PO
Box 1673, Warren, PA 16365, 1-800-328-2008, email: jenn@mckissock.com , web site: http://www.mckissock.com
.
three (3)
hours credit each:
"Crisis: The Role of the Funeral Director"
"Formaldehyde
Monitoring & the OSHA Standard"
"Marketing for the Funeral
Director"
"The
FTC's Funeral Rule"
"Professionalism for the Funeral Industry"
ADDED
6-19-08 "AIDS
Education"
3)
The following home study
programs have been approved as listed
for each. They are
sponsored by APEX Continuing
Education Solutions. For
additional information contact: APEX at 1-(800) 769-8996. Email: INFO@CESFD.Com. Website: www.cesfd.com currently but will be
changing to www.APEXCES.com in
early 2006 when website is updated.
two (2) hours credit:
"Funeral
Service Ethics"
three
(3) hours credit each:
"FTC Funeral Rule"
"OSHA Essentials"
"Working With Difficult
People"
4)
The following home study
programs have been approved for three
(3) hours credit each. They are
sponsored by ArcMesa Educators. For additional information contact: Ms.
Erin Casey c/o ArcMesa Educators, 788 Shrewsbury Avenue,
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 1-800-597-6372. Their website is: http://www.arcmesa.com.
"Aftercare: Issues and Guidelines"
"Buddhism: Teachings on Death and Beyond"
"Communicable Diseases"
"Communicable Disease Health & Safety Program (3rd Edition)"
"Embalming Perspectives and Paradigms
Challenged"
"Embalming Perspective (2nd Edition)"
"Emotional Healing After the Death of a
Loved One"
"Funeral Service Ethics"
"Funeral Service Ethics (2nd Edition)"
"Grief Management"
"Grief Management (2nd Edition)"
"HIV/AIDS"
"HIV/Aids (4th Edition)"
"How to Develop a Grief Aftercare
Program"
"Latex Allergies"
"Mass Fatalities Incident Response"
"The American With Disabilities Act: ADA"
Homestudy or Internet:
"HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases"
"Understanding the Common Causes of Death"
New additions:
one (1) hour
"Green Burials"
two (2) hours
"The History of Preservation of the Dead"
5)
The
following home study
programs have been approved as listed. They are
sponsored by Batesville Casket. For additional information contact:
Batesville Management Services at (812) 934-7318.
"Talking About Death With Children" one
(1) hour
"Handling Difficult
Arrangements"
two (2) hours
6)
"Undertaking Ethical Issues in Funeral Home Services" is being sponsored by: Cape School, Inc. and
has been approved for three (3) hours
of continuing education on line for Kansas licensees. You may call at
1(434) 969-5001 or go to their website by clicking here: www.capecourses.com or
email: info@capecourses.com
7)
"The American With Disabilities Act:
ADA" ; The "Formaldehyde Safety" and "Blood
borne Pathogen Safety" programs
are sponsor by: Gary Finch, Compliance Plus, Drawer Ten, Nixon, Texas 78140, (800)
950-1101. They have been approved for three (3) hours each of credit.
8) The following home study programs
have been approved for three (3)
hours credit each. They are
sponsored by Continuing
Education for Licensing. For
additional information contact: Sharon Trussell, c/o Continuing
Education for Licensing, Route 6, Box 738, Canton, Texas 75103, or call
1-903-567-1370:
"How We Die"
"The Art of Condolence"
"The Mourning Handbook"
9) "Clarity Net" courses "Bloodborne Pathogens"
and "Respiratory Protection" have each been approved for one (1) hour of continuing education for Kansas
licensees. These programs are being sponsored by Coastal, Inc. To
register, contact Mike Hall at (757) 498-9014, or email: mhall@coastal.com. Their website is www.coastal.com
ADDED
6-26-08
10) C.O.E. Continuing Education
is sponsoring homestudy internet courses for Kansas licensees. To
register contact COE Continuing Education at 1-(800) 795-3004 or write
to COE at P.O. Box 35606, Fayetteville,
NC 28303-5606. Click http://www.coecontinuingeducation.com/
to go directly to their website. Their approved programs are :
Two (2) hrs:
“Practice of Embalmers”
Three (3) hours
each:
"Funeral and Religion Customs"
"Funeral Counseling"
"HIV/AIDS and Sanitation"
11) The "Strength of Doric -- Interactive
Presentation" program is
sponsored by: Doric Products, Inc., P.O. Box 10, Marshall, IL 62441,
1-800-457-0671. It has been approved by one (1) hour of credit.
12)
Elite CME, Inc. has the
following homestudy/correspondance
programs approved as listed for continuing education for Kansas
licensees. To register call Todd Mowl at 1 (888) 857-6920 or write:
Elite CME, Inc., 1453 N. Hwy US
#1, Unit 32, Ormond Beach,
FL 32174
or website: http://elitecme.com/ email: todd@elitecme.com
one (1)
hr - "Professional Ethics"
two (2) hrs - "HIV/Aids - Communicable
Diseases and OSHA Bloodborne Standard"
three (3) hrs - "Funeral Services: Interpersonal Skills
and Communication"
13) The following on-line home
study courses are being sponsored by FuneralCE, P.O. Box 850127, Richardson, TX
75085. To register
contact: Ms. Bonnie Williams at 866-332-8423 , email: bonnie.williams@webce.com
website: www.funeralce.com. They have
been approved as listed below.
Three (3) hours credit:
"Bloodborne Pathogens"
"CSA Designation Program"
"Effective and Ethical
Communication with Seniors"
"Ethics of Making Funeral
Arrangements"
"How To Run A Funeral Business"
"Maximizing Integrity in
Decisions with Seniors"
"OSHA Workplace Rights"
"Senior Market Sales
Ethics"
Two (2) hours credit:
"Decision Making"
"Funeral Customs With
Military Honors" ADDED
5-2-08
"Funeral Rule"
"OSHA in the Workplace"
"Personalization in the Funeral
Industry" ADDED
5-2-08
One (1) hour credit:
"Basic Funeral Customs"
"Goal Setting Basic"
"History of Preserving
Human Remains"
"HIV/Aids"
"Rational Thinking"
"Stillborn Support"
"Telephone Techniques"
"Time Management"
"Working with Difficult People"
14) The following home study
course is being sponsored by
Funeral Ethics Association, P.O.
Box 7127, Springfield, Illinois 62791, (217) 525-1520. Their website
is: http://www.fea.org. It has been approved for three (3) hours credit .
"Expanding Funeral Ethics"
15) The following on-line study programs have been approved for three (3) hours credit each for Kansas licensees. They are sponsored
by Funeral Review.Com. Their mailing address is:
FuneralReview.com, P.O. Box 76391, St. Petersburg, FL
33734. Toll free 1-(866) 325-4700. For additional information - Log
In@www.funeralreview.com.
"Embalming Perspectives & Paradigms
Challenged" ADDED
7-1-08
"Learning to be a Leader"
"Personnel Management in Funeral Service"
"Understanding and Creating Exceptional
Funeral Experiences"
"Understanding and managing Grief"
"Understanding Preneed"
"What
Matters Most"
Approval for two (2) hours credit:
"Communicable Disease"
"HIV/AIDS A funeral practitioners guide to occupational exposure"
Approved for one (1) hour credit:
"Hazard
Communications"
16)
The following on-line study
programs have been approved for one (1) hour credit each for Kansas licensees. They are sponsored
by Hospice Foundation of
America. The website is: www.hospiceonline.com. The
online courses are available on the Hospice Education Network' s
educational website. Their mailing address is: Hospice Foundation of America, 1621
Connecticute Ave., NW, Ste 300, Washington, DC 20009-1052.
"Caregiving and Loss"
Family Needs, Professional Responses"
"Coping With Public Tragedy"
"Living with Grief:
Before and After Death"
"Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss"
"Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease"
"Living with Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship"
"Living with Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of
Life"
"Living with Grief: Loss Later in Life"
"Living with Grief: When Illness is
Prolonged"
"Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve"
"Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the
Gap Between Knowledge and Practice"
17)
The following 2002 Videotaped
Education programs have been
approved for 1-1/2 hours each and are being sponsored by International Order of the Golden Rule. To register: call Jenny Gabbert at
(800)637-8030 or write: Jenny Gabbert, 13523 Lakefront Drive, Bridgeton
(St. Louis), MO 63045.
Video #1 - Alan Wolfelt
Video #2 - Karen Nilsen
18) ADDED
5-6-08"Expanding
Funeral Ethics" program is
sponsored by the Kansas Funeral
Directors Association, PO Box
1904, Topeka, KS 66601-1904 or
call (785) 232-7789. Their website is: http://www.ksfda.org/. This program has been approved for
three (3) hours credit.
19)
"IS-700: National Incident
Management
System" program is
sponsored by the Kansas Funeral
Directors Association, PO Box
1904, Topeka, KS 66601-1904 or
call (785) 232-7789. Their website is: http://www.ksfda.org/. This program has been approved for
three (3) hours credit.
20)
"Life
Appreciation
Training - Funeral Arrangements" is sponsored by Life Appreciation Training
Seminars Home Study Series and On-line Learning Center courses. For
more information contact: Kevin Bates at 1 (800) 877-8905. All programs
have been approved for three (3)
hours credit:
21) The following programs are a part
of the National Funeral
Director's Association Home Study
Series and On-line Learning Center courses. For more information
contact: Sandra Jeske, c/o Funeral Service Educational Foundation,
13625 Bishop's Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin, 53005,
1-800-228-6332. Please remember although
they offer additional courses only programs listed below have been
approved for Kansas licensees.
All programs have been approved for three (3) hours credit:
DVD/Video Tapes/Study Guides:
"Embalming
Difficult Cases: Donor
Cases"
"FTC Compliance: Handling the
General Price List"
"Restorative Arts: An Artist's Perspective"
"The Art of Facial Reconstruction"
"Your Professional Image"
Home Reading/Home Study Series:
"Creating the Ultimate Funeral
Experiences Through Questioning Strategies"
"Certified Preplanning Consultant" (CPC)
"Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief"
"Father Loss: How Sons Of All Ages Come To Terms"
"Funeral Home Service A-Z"
"Healing a Child's Grieving Heart"
"Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart"
"Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart"
"Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart"
"Healing Your Grieving Heart"
"No Time for Good-byes"
"The End is Just the Beginning: Lessons in Grieving for African
Americans"
"When All the Friends Have Gone"
"When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently and How you can Help"
"Winning Ways"
Home Reading/Home Study Series:
New Approvals- three (3) hours each:
Don’t Take the Last Donut:
New Rules of Business Etiquette
Healing Your Holiday Grief: 100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning
and Celebration During the Holiday Season
Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief
Traveling through Grief: Learning to Live Again After the Death of a
Loved One
The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way
Audiocassettes-CD ROMS:
"Body Preparation and
Practices for
Different Religions and Cultures: Jewish, Hispanic, Mormon"
"Caregiver's Overload: How to Cope with Accumulated Loss"
"Creating the Ultimate Funeral Experience Through Questioning
Strategies"
"Cremation Management: Your Business is at Risk!
"EPA/OSHA Compliance to Protect and Enhance Your Business"
"Having Fun with OSHA"
"Legendary Service at the Ritz-Carlton"
"Managing Diversity"
"Military Funeral Honors and the Important Role of the
Funeral
Director"
"Myths of Grief"
"Policies and Procedures: The Foundation to Crematory Operations"
"Potential Legal Issues Related to Embalming"
"Preneed Planning: The Importance of Being Prepared"
"Promoting the Value of Ceremony to Today's Consumer"
"Reinvent Your Cremation Arrangements"
"Strategies for Surviving Until 2020: Tools for Adapting to the New
Realities"
"Surviving Cremation: Operate Like It's 2010"
"The Avian Flu Pandemic: Are You Prepared?"
"The Changing Face of Death: How to Deal with the New Demographics"
"Valuable Things Grieving People Need to Hear From You"
"What Weddings Teach Funerals"
"What's Beyond Goodbye? Becoming a Full Service Funeral Home"
"You Need Hospice and Hospice Needs You"
Audiocassettes
- CD Roms - New Approvals- three (3) hours each:
Celebrate the Extinction of the Selection Room: Strategies to Meet
Today’s Consumer Needs
Cremation Due Diligence: Four Steps to Protect Your Business
Ethics in the Preneed Profession
FTC Compliance Update: 2007
Managing Your Workplace and Environmental Practices in a Contaminated
Environment
No Religion Please: Creating Life Celebrations for Non religious
Families
The Pandemic Avian Flu: Is Your Funeral Home Prepared?
Online Learning Center courses
(web site: www.nfda.org )
Three (3)
hours each:
"ADA Employment Compliance for
Funeral Homes"
"Communicable Diseases: What Every Funeral Home Must Know"
"Conflict Management for
Funeral Directors: An Interpersonal Communication Key to Successful
Funeral Practice"
"Controlling Accounts Receivable"
"Embalming the Obese Case"
"Ethics in the Real World: Guidelines for Ethical
Decision-making in
Funeral Service"
"Guaranteed Funerals: Is Preneed Right for You?"
"Serving Hispanic Families"
"Time for You Annual Check-Up"
"Understanding Adult Grief: Ways to Help Adults on Their Grief Journeys"
"Understanding a Child's Grief"
"Understanding the Practice of the FTC Funeral Rule"
One (1)
hour course online:
"Professional Ethics in Funeral Service: NFDA's Code of
Professional
Conduct"
Two (2) Hours each:
"Delegating”
“Essential Skills for
Communicating”
“Essential Skills of Leadership”
“Improving Work Habits”
“Managing Complaints”
“Professionalism in the Office”
“Providing Performance Feedback”
“Supporting Change”
22)
The following correspondence
courses have been approved for three
(3) hours each. For more
information contact: Richard Santore, c/o Practicum Strategies, P.O. Box 1089, 8 Lenore Ct.,
Hammonton, NJ 08037, 1-(800) 731-4714 or fax 1-(800) 591-6391 or click
here: www.practicumstrategies.com
"A Review of Basic Embalming
Procedures"
"Business Morals and Ethics and The
Funeral Director"
"Complying with the Funeral Rule"
"Computer Concepts for the Funeral Home"
"Computers A-Z for the Funeral Home"
"Coping With Stress As A Funeral Director"
"CREMATION: The Concept, The Client, The Caring"
"CREMATION: The Process"
"Dealing with Communicable Diseases & AIDS"
"Employee Recriutment and Retention in Funeral Service" ADDED
8-12-08
"Ethics for Funeral Directors"
"Everyday Ethics in Funeral Service"
"Funeral Profession and Consumer Behavior"
"Funeral Values - The Year 2000 and Beyond"
"Grief 101 for Funeral Directors"
"Hazardous Chemicals/Toxic Substances"
"Helping Skills for 2003"
"How Do We Tell The Children?"
"Intermediate Marketing for Funeral Directors"
"Introduction To Accounting for the Funeral Director"
"Job Burnout in Funeral Service"
"Living with the FTC's Funeral Rule"
"Managing Stress in Funeral Service"
"Marketing 101 for Funeral Directors: Why Everything You Know About
Marketing Won't Work For Your Business; And Why It's Not Your Fault" ADDED
8-12-08
"Moral Dilemmas Facing the Funeral Profession"
"Motivation and Coaching For the Successful Funeral Director"
"OSHA for Small Business"
"OSHA: A Practical Guide for Funeral Service Professionals"
"Power Communication for Funeral Professionals"
"Preneed Funeral Planning A Basic Course for the Funeral Prof."
"Pre-Planning For Funeral Home Business Interruptions"
"Professional Communications with Client Families, Part 1"
"Professional Ethics in a Changing Environment"
"Sacred/Sensitive.....and Sane"
"Stress and the Funeral Home Environment"
"The Grieving Process "
"The Vanguard of Competition for the Funeral Profession"
"Understanding & Completing the Certificate of Death"
"Universal Precautions: A Review for Embalmers & Funeral
Directors"
23) The "Grief Resolution for Co-Workers" program is sponsored by: Lowell Pugh, c/o
H. L. Pugh and Associates Consulting, 400 Chestnut, Box 145, Golden City,
Missouri 64748-0145, (417) 537-4412. It has been approved for two (2) hours credit.
24)
The "Understanding Casket
Components" correspondence
program is sponsored by Gary
Sokoll, 9721 Rail Road, Midwest
City, Oklahoma 73130, (405) 732-0812. It has been approved for one (1) hour credit.
25)
The following fourteen (14) Independent Study Correspondence Courses
are provided by the Thanos
Institute. For more information
contact: Mary E. Rizzo, c/o Thanos Institute, P.O. Box 1928, Buffalo,
New York, 14231-1928, 1-800-742-8257. Email is: mrizzo@thanosinstitute.com
Website is: www.thanosinstitute.com
All programs have been approved
for three (3) hours credit:
"A Student Dies, A School Mourns..Are
You Prepared?"
"Bereavement and the Funeral Director "
"Children and the Funeral Rite "
"Death of an Infant "
"Embalming"
"Embalming Management "
"Ethics In Funeral Service "
"Forensic Pathology for Funeral Directors "
"Funeral Customs Past and Present "
"Funeral Service Management "
"Grief Counseling for the Funeral Director"ADDED
8-26-08
"Management Skills for Funeral Directors "
"OSHA Compliance and FTC Rules"
" Restorative Art & Cosmetology"
"Unexpected, Traumatic Death and the Funeral Director "
26) The following on-line home study programs have been approved as
listed below. They are sponsored by 360 Training, Austin, Texas. For additional
information contact: www.funeralcampus.com.
Approved
for one (1) hour each:
Hazard Communication - Basic
Hazard Communication - Advanced
Homeland Security - Emergency
Response
Industrial Hygiene - Basic
Industrial Hygiene - Advanced
Material Handling & Storage -
Advanced
OSHA Training Requirements &
Techniques
OSHA - Safety & Health
Programs - Advanced
Personal Protective Equipment -
Advanced
Approved for two (2) hours each:
Bloodborne Pathogens - Advanced
Estate Planning
Ethics for Insurance Professionals
Formaldehyde & Needle Stick
Safety
Hazardous Materials
Hazardous Materials - Advanced
OSHA - OSHA Act & Standards
Approved for three (3) hours each:
Dealing with Conflict &
Confrontation
Dealing with Difficult People
Ethics for Insurance
Professionals - Advanced
Industrial Emergency
Response - Hazmat First Response
Medicare
Wills & Trusts
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