CCP Certification: Plan for Success in the New Health Care Environment

• Update your knowledge and skills. Disease management and health coaching are predicted to be among the fastest-growing fields in health care.
  
  
• Select the right credential. If you’re in the disease management or health coaching fields, more and more employers are recommending or requiring CCP certification.
  
  
• Take your practice to the next level. Disease management and health coaching skills can be applied to nearly every health care setting by a wide range of professionals.
  
  
• Expand your career options. Demand for CCPs will continue to grow in health plans, disease management organizations, health systems, and physician practices.
  
  
• Give your resume a boost. CCP certification can give you an edge in job searches and internal promotion opportunities.
  
  
• Work from home. Demand is growing for home-based, telephonic disease management and nurse health coaches.

CCP Certification: The Right Choice for Today’s Health Care Professionals

• The gold standard certification. Since 2004, CCP certification has been the only nationally recognized disease management and health coaching credential for nurses and other health care professionals. CCP certification is offered jointly with DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance. (DMAA members include the nation’s largest employers of health plans, disease management, and health systems). CCP certification is also offered to case managers through a special arrangement with the Case Management Society of America (CMSA).
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• Certification for health care professionals. CCP certification is the only disease management and health coaching certification designed by health care professionals for health care professionals. Whether you are a direct care provider or a health support professional, CCP can help take your practice and career to the next level.
  
  
• An acclaimed learning and certification program. The CCP program is a 40-hour professional development program that combines a dynamic online program, a comprehensive program/reference manual, and a certification examination. More than 95% of CCP program participants would recommend the CCP program to a colleague. View participant testimonials.
  
  
• Available on-site or online. The program is delivered live via a 2-day on-site program or through a self-directed online eLearning platform. See delivery options.
  
  
• Designed for adult learners. The CCP program has been designed in partnership with award-winning instructional design and eLearning professionals. The program reflects the best practices of human resource development to support learning transfer and competency advancement.
  
  
• Up-to-date and evidence-based certification. The program features ground-breaking content and interventions from the fields of health psychology and motivational interviewing. Updated treatment guideline overviews for 25 chronic medical conditions and the latest guidelines for physical activity from the American College of Sports Medicine are included.

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CCP Certification Program Brochure 4.0 (PDF)

	“I have taken several motivational interviewing classes and I feel like NOW I finally understand how to use MI with patients. What a wonderful program.” Canada Chronic Care Program Case Manager “I really liked that the program is evidence-based and included references for further learning and reference.” University Health Care System Nurse “Thanks for offering such a complete and practical program.” Private Practice Primary Care Physician “This program should be required for all health care providers.” Pharmacist, Health System “I have been working in this field for five years, now I finally feel like I understand DM and have the right tools to support patient change.” Nurse, US Health System