Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Certification Maintenance Program (CMP)

The Certification Maintenance Program (CMP) is a Continuing Educations Unit (CEU) tracking system for Certified Members. To maintain their certification, a member must complete 8.0 CEUs or 80 hours of education during a four-year cycle. The four ways to earn CEUs are Workshops that are RID/ACET approved, Participant Initiated Non-RID Activities (PINRA), Academic Coursework, and Independent Study. There are two categories of CEUs. Professional Study CEUs are directly connected to the interpreting field. A member must complete 6.0 or 60 hours of Professional Study CEUs. These can be workshops or post-secondary classes related to ASL linguistics, Deaf Culture, and other languages. A member must also gain 1.0 or 10 hours of Power, Privilege, and Oppression (PPO) CEUs that will be included in the Professional Studies category. If a member has a specialty such as Legal interpreting, they must complete 2.0 or 20 hours per cycle in their specialty. General Studies are any other type of continuing education. This can be an accounting class or a local workshop on watershed maintenance. For a person to earn CEUs in the PINRA, Academic Coursework, and Independent Study categories, they need to contact a CMP Sponsor to approve and process them before and after the activity. ACET is the Associate Continuing Educations Tracking for members who are still working on their certification but have not yet passed the test.
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