Program membership
One membership for the whole organization.
CCAPP program membership covers your organization and every non-clinical member of your staff, and it now includes the employer dashboard — so you can see who is compliant without asking anyone.
$500a year, per organization
Licensed, registered and certified staff hold their own $100 individual membership — in their name, and theirs to keep. Counselors can pay for it themselves, and many programs choose to cover it as a staff benefit. That part is optional, and nothing in program membership depends on it.
Covers your organization and every non-clinical member of staff, with the employer dashboard included.
Open an applicationA membership for companies offering products and services to mental health and addiction treatment — suppliers, consultants, software and services.
Join as a supportive businessCCAPP is the only membership organization in California with both state and national lobbyists. Give whatever you choose — the form opens in Certemy.
Open the donation formKnow who’s compliant. Without asking anyone.
The employer dashboard shows every staff member against every requirement — who’s done, who’s due, who’s overdue — and sends the reminders for you. Set it up once, then stop chasing people — and pull an audit export whenever a reviewer asks for one.
It is included with program membership. There is a live demo you can click through before you join.
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See what membership gives back.
Put your headcount in and this works out what CCAPP membership is worth to your program — what you would otherwise pay a compliance platform, what the membership hands back on top, and what it adds up to over a year. Most programs are surprised by the second half.
Compliance is one channel. These are the others, at CCAPP’s own published values. The first four land whether you use them or not.
CCAPP keeps a lobbyist at the State Capitol and a second one nationally, working on behalf of every member program — on licensing, on reimbursement, on the regulations you have to live under. There is no line item for it and no surcharge. Retaining a California state lobbyist on your own runs $10,000 to $25,000 a month at going industry rates, before anyone touches Washington. It is left out of the total above because no single program would buy it — which is rather the point of belonging to one of these.
Platform figures are published list prices for comparable staff compliance and credential-tracking platforms, read October 2026 — about $130 a seat a year at the low end and $329 at the high end, with one-time onboarding of $1,650 to $2,100 on top. Each is either a vendor’s own published price list or a figure from a published public-agency contract award, and CCAPP holds the sources. Benefit values are CCAPP’s own, except Counselor Magazine at its own cover price and the conference rate at the published member price. Your own quote will differ.
Other SUD and mental health member associations charge on a sliding scale — by your agency budget, by your gross revenue, or by how many clients you enroll. Grow, and the bill grows. CCAPP is $500 whether you run one site or twenty.
The employer dashboard. Free compliance courses for every support staff member. California and DHCS advocacy. Conference and CE rates, the program directory, two e-blasts a year, Counselor Magazine and dual membership — all inside the $500.
One price, however big you getPublished dues run from a few hundred dollars for the smallest agencies to $31,500 at the top of a revenue table. Where dues are charged per client, one association’s application form sets them at $1.25 for every new enrollee, every quarter — so a program taking 11,000 admissions a year pays about $14,000. What you get is usually legislative updates, a directory listing and a discount on events.
No compliance dashboard. No CE. No magazine.Ranges taken from the published dues tables of other California and national SUD and behavioral health provider associations, read October 2026. The per-client rate is taken from one association’s own downloadable membership application, which sets dues at $1.25 for each new enrollee each quarter; the $14,000 example is that published rate applied to 11,000 admissions a year. Your own dues will depend on which association you join and how large you are.
Put your people through for $1,000 less each.
Employees of program members save $800 on CCAPP Academy tuition — or $1,000 where the program pays the fee. It is the fastest way to grow your own counselors instead of competing for someone else’s.
What your program gets
Benefits of program membership.
Pick what matters to your organization.
About CCAPP
The largest statewide organization of its kind.
CCAPP represents community-based, for-profit and nonprofit substance use disorder treatment agencies and the professionals who staff them — and it is the only statewide consortium representing every modality, from DUI programs and narcotic treatment programs to recovery residences and Recovery Community Organizations.
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