Board History

The Certification Board is the only recognized private, state-based certification board in New Jersey under contract with the State Department of Human Services.  The Board currently certifies approximately 1300 counselors, supervisors, preventionists, MICA specialists, case managers, tobacco specialists and associates.  We are a member board of the International Certification Reciprocity Consortium of Alcohol and Other Drugs (ICRC/AODA).  As a member board, we adhere to the reciprocal standards for certifications in use throughout the world.  The IC&RC promotes uniform professional standards and maintains quality for the alcohol and drug counseling and prevention field.  The IC&RC has 73 member Boards throughout the world that offer reciprocity for our credentials.

The board has been in existence for several years. The Certification Board, founded in 1972, has had a contract with the New Jersey Department of Health, Division of Addiction Services since 1976. The current Board is a merger of the formerly separate Alcohol and Drug Counseling Boards. These two Board completed their merger in 1989 and evolved from the Alcohol and Other Drugs of Abuse Counselor Certification Board of New Jersey, Inc., to the Alcohol and Drug Counseling Certification Board of New Jersey, Inc. to our current name as the Addiction Professionals Certification Board Inc.