RAC is committed to the belief that all Members must develop in their own direction with respect to continuing education and professional development. As a result, it is pleased to announce the creation of the Registered Canadian Reflexology Therapist (RCRT) Designation and accompanying Continuing Education Units (CEU) Program in a way that provides the member with the flexibility to choose how, when and where this development can take place and what approach would be most beneficial to and cost effective for their practice.

The RAC continuing education and professional development process is now required to maintain membership as a RAC Professional Reflexologist and to maintain the RCRT designation -- whether practicing or nonpracticing, part-time or full-time.

The major goal and mandate of this program is to address the memberships' directives for RAC which are to:

• Provide organizations across Canada with guidelines to advance the standards of education and practice of professional reflexology across Canada;

• Reflect a growing recognition and need by RAC, and other reflexology associations, to develop similar programmes for the regulation of the profession;

• Establish and maintain common standards for the profession of reflexology as a whole and to regularly monitor these standards;

• Protect the public by requiring its professional reflexology members to meet national competency standards;

• Meet future regulatory requirements for both government and insurance bodies;

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• Provide members with a process by which they can take responsibility for their own professional development.

RAC's goal is to ensure the process is easy enough to allow members to participate but challenging enough to ensure that standards are maintained and improved in the coming years. This is the first step towards three levels of designation and to establishing RAC as the nationally recognized standard setter, and standard bearer, for the practice of Reflexology across Canada.