Benefits

• Face-to-face instruction from eight to 10 faculty members, highly skilled in their professions and passionate about their topics
  
  
• Lively interaction among instructors and classmates, as well as experiential demonstrations, create an intense and stimulating learning environment
  
  
• Immediate, detailed answers to questions about class material
  
  
• Opportunities to meet new people in and outside one’s area of professional expertise
  
  
• Completion of the course and exam in one 3-1/2 day event

Pre-Class Study:
Candidates must invest 10 to 15 hours of study prior to the class using the Working With Seniors textbook and the Becoming a CSA participant workbook.

Course Materials Provided

• Working With Seniors: Health, Financial and Social Issues
  
  This in-depth textbook (approximately 700 pages) contains more than 22 chapters of detailed content on the key issues that affect seniors’ lives. Each chapter contains a list of resources for seniors. A special section focuses on building the CSA’s practice, including ethics and marketing to seniors. The textbook is the foundation for the CSA curriculum and serves as a reference after the designation is earned.
  
  
• Becoming a CSA Participant Workbook
  
  The participant workbook (approximately 95 pages) helps students focus on key learning points and prepare for the CSA exam, chapter-by-chapter, with lists of key terms and concepts, fill-in-the-blank exercises and review questions.
  
  
• Classroom Study Guide
  
  At class, each student receives a Classroom Study Guide (approximately 95 pages) that contains copies of the PowerPoint presentations delivered by the faculty during the 3-1/2 day program. The guide is designed for note taking and enhances students’ study for the exam.
  

CSA Designation Exam

The CSA exam contains 150 multiple-choice questions. Students take the monitored exam on the morning of the fourth day. They have three hours to complete it. Results are provided to each candidate the week following the test date.
Pass/Fail Grading: A passing score on the CSA exam is 70% or more correct answers (105 questions).