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Board approves minutes, hears outreach and workforce committee updates
Summary
After the two hearings, the Board of Behavioral Sciences approved May and August 2025 minutes (motion carried with one abstention) and received updates: an outreach and education committee report highlighting an AI listening session with more than 500 participants, and a workforce committee discussion on simplifying LMFT education requirements and possible accreditation recognition.
The Board of Behavioral Sciences recessed from adjudicative hearings on Nov. 20 to handle routine board business, approving the May and August 2025 meeting minutes and receiving committee updates on outreach and workforce issues.
During open session the board reestablished a quorum and moved to approve the consent calendar containing the May and August meeting minutes. The motion carried on roll‑call with one abstention; the chair declared the motion carried.
The outreach and education committee reported on efforts to expand public and student outreach, enhance educational resources for licensure applicants, and improve accessibility. Committee representatives highlighted an AI listening session held Nov. 12 that drew more than 500 attendees and roughly 170 exit‑survey responses; the committee plans to build on that session and to revive shorter social‑media campaigns and targeted videos to guide students through licensure steps.
The workforce committee reported work to streamline LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) education requirements. Presenters said the current system includes multiple pathways that can be confusing and proposed consolidating subject requirements, removing in‑state/out‑of‑state distinctions, setting a common integrated‑degree minimum (discussed as a 60‑unit standard) and modernizing competency descriptions. Committee members discussed whether to accept certain accrediting bodies as evidence of program rigor and emphasized this is an early stage of a multi‑meeting effort.
Board members had no substantive objections and directed the committees to continue their work. The board recessed for closed session to deliberate the two petitions heard earlier and planned to reconvene in open session after deliberations.
