New Board Member Training Policy

Introduction:

ASWB is committed to providing member boards with educational programs that will assist them in the protection of the public. To that end, the association may sponsor training for new regulatory board members whenever sufficient funds are available for these programs. All member boards are eligible to participate in the training program, which will follow association policy.

Policy

1. Notice of an upcoming ASWB New Board Member Training session will be forwarded to member boards no less than 60 days in advance of the meeting.

2. When financially feasible, ASWB will bear the transportation and lodging costs of a limited number of eligible New Board Member Training participants from member boards in good standing. Funding will comply with travel arrangement and expenses policies.

3. ASWB funding will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to one eligible participant per member board. Member boards may be awarded funding for additional participants on a funding-available basis.

4. To be eligible for association funding, the New Board Member Training participant must be a current board member serving the first year of the first appointment term, or a newly-appointed board member whose term has not yet begun. If the timing of board appointment is such that New Board Member Training opportunities are not available during the first year of appointment, the board member may be eligible for ASWB funding to attend training during the second year of appointment on a space-available basis. Second year applications for funded participation must be accompanied by written justification of the request.

5. Participants who fall outside these eligibility requirements may attend New Board Member Training without ASWB funding.

Adopted by the Board of Directors, January 1997, revised by the Board of Directors, 1998