Under the new Grant Administrator Certification and Continuing Education (CE) policy that was effective as of March 15, 2018, a certified Grant Administrator must complete six (6) CE credits each year to be able to renew their certification. Two of the six credits must be an OCRA GA Update Training course. The remaining credits can be earned by participation at OCRA approved events. Please see the list below for information regarding the other Continuing Education available this year.
2021 OCRA Update Trainings
More information on these trainings will be released at a later date.
Additional Approved Events
The following are all the approved events that Grant Administrators can count for CE credit. For each, OCRA has identified the number of credits. Grant Administrators are encouraged to submit additional events for approval consideration to the CDBG Program Manager, Bolanle Oladokun.
| Date | 2021 Event | Credit |
| Jan. 27 | 2021 Building a Brownfield Inventory Using BiT - link | 1 |
| Jan. 27 & April 13 | Comprehensive Community Wealth Approach: An Introduction - link | 1 |
| Feb. 5 | Dollars and Sense: A Brief Explainer on Indiana Local Government Finance - link | 1 |
| Feb. 23 | Digging for Data: How to Find Relevant Data - link | 1 |
| Feb. 25 | StatsAmerica Webinar Series: Innovation Index 2.0 - link | 1 |
| March 1 | Deciphering Data: How to Interpret and Contextualize Data - link | 1 |
| March 23 | Designing Data: How to Use GIS to Tell a Story with Data - link | 1 |
| April 8 | The FHCCI 9th Annual Fair Housing Conference - link | 3 |
| April 27 | Qualifications Based Selection: Better Projects, Better Value (virtual) - link | 1 |