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Occupational Therapy Professional Associations
Test Preparation
Credentialing
Licensing
Licensing requirements vary quite dramatically by state.The following will provide you contact information for each State Licensing Board.
- Alabama
Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy
Address: 64 North Union Street, Suite 734
Montgomery, AL 36130
Phone: (334) 353-4466 (334) 353-4465 (fax)
Email: acosby@asbot.state.al.us
Website: http://ot.alabama.gov/code.htm
- Alaska:
Dept. of Commerce, Division of Occupational Licensing
State OT & PT Board,
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau, AK 99811-0806
Phone: (907) 465-3811
Fax: (907) 465-2974 (fax)
Website: http://www.dced.state.ak.us/occ/
- Arizona
AZ Board of OT Examiners
Address: 5060 North 19th Ave. Suite #216
Phoenix, AZ 85015
Phone: (602) 589-8352
Fax: (602) 589-8354
Email: abote@primenet.com
Website: http://www.arizota.org/
- Arkansas
AR State Medical Board,
Address: 2100 Riverfront Drive, Suite 200
Little Rock, AR 72202-1793
Phone: (501) 296-1802,
Fax: (501) 296-1805.
Website: http://www.armedicalboard.org
- California
California Board of Occupational Therapy
Address: 2005 Evergreen Street., Suite 2050
Sacramento, CA 95815
Phone: (916) 263-2294
Fax: (916)-263-2701
Email: cbot@dca.ca.gov
Website: http://www.bot.ca.gov/
- Colorado
Colorado Division of Regulations
Address: 1560 Broadway, Suite 1340
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303-894-2440
Fax: (303) 894-7802
Website: http://www.dora.state.co.us/Physical-Therapy
- Connecticut
Department of Public Health, OT Licensure
Address: 410 Capitol Avenue, Mail Stop #12APP
P.O. Box 340308
Hartford, CT 06134-0308,
Phone: (860) 509-7561
Fax: (860) 509-8457
Website: http://www.ct.gov/dph/site/default.asp
- Delaware
DE State Board of OT, Division of Professional Regulation,
Address: Cannon Bldg., Suite 203, 861 Silver Lake Blvd.
Dover, DE 19904
Phone: (302) 739-4522, ext. 207
Fax: (302) 739-2711
Email: customerservice.dpr@state.de.us
Website: http://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/occupationaltherapy/index.shtml
- District of Columbia
DC Department of Health, Office of Professional Licensing,
Address: 825 North Capitol Street, Northeast Suite 2224
Washington, D.C. 20002
Phone: (202) 442-4775 (from 8:30am-4:00pm),
Voicemail: (202) 442-4330,
Fax: (202) 442-9431
- Florida
Florida Department of Health, Board of Occupational Therapy Practice
Address: 2020 Capital Circle, S.E., BIN #C05
Tallahassee, FL 32399-3255
Phone: (850) 488-0595
Fax: (850) 414-6860
Email: Deb-Boutwell@doh.state.fl.us
Website: http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/occupational/
- Georgia
GA Board of OT, Examining Board Division,
|Address: 237 Coliseum Drive
Macon, GA 31217-3858,
Phone: (912) 207-1300, Fax: (912) 207-1633
Website: http://www.sos.georgia.gov/plb/ot/
- Hawaii
Registration; (Does not regulate OTA Licensing)
Commerce and Consumer Affairs Department
Address: P.O. Box 3469
Honolulu, HI 96801
Phone: (808) 586-3000 Fax: (808) 586-2877
Website: http://hawaii.gov/dcca/areas/pvl/programs/occupational/
- Idaho
ID State Board of Medicine,
Address: P.O. Box 83720, 280 N. 8th Street, Suite 202
Boise, ID 83720-0058,
Phone: (208) 334-2822; Fax: (208) 334-2801.
Website: http://www.state.id.us/
- Illinois
Department of Professional Regulation, Licensure Maintenance Unit (LMU),
Address: 320 W. Washington Street, 3rd Floor
Springfield, IL 62786
Phone: (217) 782-0458
Fax: (217) 782-7645
Website: http://www.idfpr.com/
- Indiana
A certification state; there is a Health Professions Bureau, and general information at the state:
Health Professions Bureau
Address: 402 W. Washington Street, Room 041
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: (317) 232-2960
Fax: (317) 233-4236
Website: http://www.in.gov/pla/ot.htm
- Iowa
Professional Licensure Office, PT and OT Board of Examiners,
Address: Lucas State Office Bldg.
4th Floor, 321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075
Phone: (515) 281-4413
Fax: (515) 281-3121
Email: jmanning@idph.state.ia.us
Website: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/licensure/board_home.asp?board=pot
- Kansas
Still a registration state
KS State Board of Healing Arts
Address: 235 South Topeka Blvd.
Topeka, KS 66603-3068
Phone: (785) 296-7413
Fax: (785) 296-0852.
Website: http://www.ksbha.org/licensure.html
- Kentucky
KY OT Board, Address: P.O. Box 1360
Frankfort, KY 40602-1360,
Phone; (502) 564-3296
Fax: (502) 564-4818,
Email: Glenda.Gordon@mail.state.ky.us
Website: http://finance.ky.gov/ourcabinet/caboff/oas/op/occupth/
- Louisiana
LA State Board of Medical Examiners,
Address: 630 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130-0250
Phone: (504) 524-6763
Fax: (504) 568-8893.
Website: http://www.lsbme.org
- Maine
Dept. of Professional & Financial Regulation, Board of OT Practice,
Address: State House Station #35
Augusta, ME 04333,
Phone: (207) 624-8626,
Fax: (207) 624-8637
Website: http://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/occupational/index.htm
- Maryland
Metro Exec. Office Bldg., State Board of OT,
Address: 3rd Floor, Rm. 314, 4201 Patterson Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215-2299,
Phone: (410) 764-4728
Fax: (410) 764-5987
Website: http://mdotboard.org/
- Massachusetts
Board of Allied Health Professions, Division of Registration,
Address: 239 Causeway Street, Suite #500
Boston, MA 02114,
Phone: (617) 727-3071
Fax: (617) 727-2669. Website:
- Michigan
A registration state: Dept. of Consumer Industry Services
Office of Health Services
P.O. Box 30670
Lansing, MI 48909-7518
Phone: (517) 335-0918
- Minnesota
A registration state: Minnesota Department of Health
121 East Seventh Place, P.O. Box 64975
St. Paul, MN 55164-0975
Phone: (651) 282-5624
- Mississippi
Professional Licensure, MS State Department of Health
500 B East Woodrow Wilson Blvd.
Jackson, MS 39216
Phone: (601) 987-4153
Fax: (601) 987-3784
- Missouri
Office of Health Care Providers, Box 1335
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: (573) 751-0877
Fax: (573) 751-1155
- Montana
Dept. of Commerce, MT Board of OT
111 N. Jackson, P.O. Box 200513
Helena, MT 59620-0513
Phone: (406) 444-3091
- Nebraska
Division of Professional Licensing, Rehabilitation & Community Services Section
Health & Human Services, P.O. Box 94986
Lincoln, NE 68509-4986
Phone: (402) 471-0547
Fax: (402) 471-3577
- Nevada
Board of OT, P.O. Box 70220
Reno, NV 89570-0220
Phone: (775) 857-1700
Fax: (775) 857-212
- New Hampshire
NH Board of Medicine, OT Licensure, Health and Welfare Bldg. 2
Industrial Park Drive, Suite #8
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 271-8389
Fax (603) 271-6702
- New Jersey
Regulations pending on licensure: Advisory Council of OT
P.O. Box 45037
Newark, NJ 07101
Phone: (973) 504-6570
Fax: (973) 648-3536
- New Mexico
NM Board of OT Practice
2055 South Pacheco, Suite #400, P.O. Box 25101
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone: (505) 476-7117
Fax: (505) 476-7095
e-mail: occupationaltherapy@state.nm.us
- New York
OT's are licensed, OTA's are registered:
NY State Board of OT, Room 3013 CEC
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12230
Phone: (518) 473-0221
Fax: (518) 474-3817
Website: http://www.op.nysed.gov/
- North Carolina
NC Board of OT
P.O. Box 2280
Raleigh, NC 27602
Phone: (919) 832-1380
Fax; (919) 833-1059
- North Dakota
ND State Board of OT Practice
P.O. Box 4005
Bismarck, ND 58502-4005
Phone: (701) 250-0847
- Ohio
Ohio OT, PT & AT Board
77 South High Street, 16th Floor
Columbus, OH 43266-0317
Phone: (614) 466-3774
Fax: (614) 995-0816
E-mail: SRS-OPT-CW@Ohio.GOV
- Oklahoma
Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision
P.O. Box 18256
Oklahoma City, OK 73154
Phone: (405) 848-6841
Fax: (405) 848-8240
E-mail: osbmls@osbmls.state.ok.us
Website: http://www.osbmls.state.ok.us/
- Oregon
OR OT Licensing Board
800 NE Oregon #21, Suite 407
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: (503) 731-4048
Fax: (503) 731-4207
E-mail: peggy.g.smith@state.or.us
- Pennsylvania
State Board of OT, Education and Licensure
Box 2649, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2649
Phone: (717) 783-1389
E-mail:CFLINCHU@dos.state.pa.us
- Puerto Rico
Department of Health, Office of Regulations & Certification of Health Professions
Call Box 10200
San Juan, PR 00908-0200
Phone: (787) 725-8121
Fax: (787) 725-7903
- Rhode Island
Division of Professional Regulation
3 Capitol Hill, Room 104
Providence, RI 02908-5097
Phone: (401) 222-2827, ext. 106
- South Carolina
oard of OT
110 Centerview Drive
Columbia, SC 29210
P.O. Box 11329
Columbia, SC 29210
Phone: (803) 896-4683
Fax: (803) 896-4719,
E-mail: owensb@mail.llr.state.sc.us.
Website: http://www.llr.state.sc.us/
- South Dakota
SD Board of Medical & Osteopathic Examiners
1323 S. Minnesota Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Phone: (605) 336-1965
- Tennessee
TN Board of OT & PT Examiners
425 5th Avenue North
Cordell Building, 1st Floor
Nashville, TN 37247-1010
Phone: (615) 532-5135
Fax: (615) 532-5164
- Texas
Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners
Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners
333 Guadalupe, Suite #2-510
Austin, TX 78701-3942
Phone: (512) 305-6900
Fax: (512) 305-695
E-mail: ECPTOTE@mail.capnet.state.tx.us.
Website:
- Utah
Division of Occupational & Professional Licensing
160 East 300 South
P.O. Box 146741
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6741
Phone: (801) 530-6632
Fax: (801) 530-6511
Website: http://www.commerce.state.ut.us/
- Vermont
Secretary of State’s Office
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609-1106
Phone: (802) 828-2390
Fax: (802) 828-0465
Website: http://www.sec.state.vt.us/
- Virginia
VA Board of Medicine
6606 W. Broad Street, 4th Floor
Richmond, VA 23230-1717
Phone: (804) 662-7664
Website: http://www.dhp.state.va.us/
- Washington
Dept. of Health, OT Board
P.O. Box 47868
Olympia, WA 98504-7868
Phone: (360) 236-4872
Fax: (360) 753-0657.
e-mail:carol.neva@doh.wa.gov
- West Virginia
WV Board of OT, 119 South Price Street
Kingwood, WV 26537
Phone: (304) 329-0480
- Wisconsin
State of WI Dept. of Reg. & Licensing,
P.O. Box 8935, Madison, WI 53708-8935,
hone: (608) 266-2112 or (608) 266-1396,
Fax: (608) 261-7083.
Website: http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/
- Wyoming
Occupational Licensing Officer
Wyoming Board of OT
1116 Logan Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82002
Phone: (307) 432-0488
Fax: (307) 432-0492
E-mail: vspire@missc.state.wy.us
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