Continuous Professional Learning
CPL Annual Requirements
Starting in 2007, obtaining yearly continuous professional learning (CPL) learning units became a requirement for maintaining full or candidate member status with LPPANS. A member must log the required CPL learning units by the end of December each calendar year. Members not in compliance with CPL requirements will not be eligible to use their professional designation as a planner (LPP, MCIP) and may be suspended or have their membership terminated. For more details, contact admin@lppans.ca.
Each year, every member is required to obtain at a minimum:
- 9 Organized & Structured and
- 9 Self- Directed or Unstructured.
for a total of 18 Learning Units per year
- All 18 (or more) Learning Units to be obtained can be Organized & Structured.
- 9 Organized and Structured Learning Units may be carried over to the next year
- Self-Directed or Unstructured Learning Units cannot be carried over to the next year.
- Activities that form part of your daily duties or which represent work for which you are paid cannot be claimed towards CPL.
Students and pre-candidate members are exempt from the CPL requirements.
Tracking Your CPL Activities
Once logged into the Members Only section on the CIP website, the CPL Reporting Form link is located under your name on the left sidebar. CPL activities can then be entered under the Forms section via the Organized/Structured LUs link or the Individual/Unstructured LUs link.
When completing the form in the Organized/Structure LUs section, registered CIP or affiliate events are listed in separate drop down menus.
Organizing a CPL eligible activity?
If you are organizing an activity that will qualify for CPL units, contact the LPPANS Professional Development Committee (admin@lppans.ca) prior to holding the event. Either the LPPANS Professional Development Committee or a staff member will assist you with the learning units (credits) for the activity and will add it to the Canadian Institute of Planners event listings.
Event organizers are encouraged to include CPL credit information in their event promotion.