08/05/2025

PDO News || CM Reporting Period Ends 12/31/25

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All AICP members follow a two-year reporting cycle that begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. Your reporting period begins when you become AICP and follows this fixed two-year cycle.

You must earn a total of 32 CM credits and earn 1 CM credit toward each mandatory topics of Ethics, Law, Equity, and Sustainability & Resilience within the reporting period.

AICP members who do not meet CM requirements within two years will lose AICP certification.

Finding and Logging Your Credits

APA has created a helpful video to guide you through the process of logging your Certification Maintenance (CM) credits. The logging of credits is crucial for maintaining your certification. Watch this video for step-by-step instructions, and for more details, refer to the logging credits instructions.

APA-IL CM Opportunities

The Illinois Chapter offers CM through on-demand webinars. You can find them all on the members-only educational resources webpage. Some of them are FREE! Here's just a few to wet your appetite:

• 2025 APA-IL Illinois State Section Spring Planning Conference (CM | 10, including law and sustainability)
• Findings of Fact Webinar - Planners Edition (CM | 1.0)
• Crypto Mining & Data Centers (CM | 1.25)
• * 2020 Census Results: What they mean and what you can do (CM | 1.0)
• * Engaging Diverse Communities (CM | 1.5)

* free for members with coupon code (found on the webinar's webpage)

APA Resources to support maintaining your credential

• Mandatory CM Credits
• Ways to Earn CM Credits
• How to Log Your CM Credits
• Claim CM Credit for Authoring
• Claim CM Credit for Pro Bono Service
• Self-Report Your Planning Activity
• Frequently Asked Questions

Questions?

Please use APA's Contact Us online form to submit your questions. This is the best way because you will receive a ticket number that you can refer to when talking with APA. 

If you use this form and APA does not respond, please let APA-IL Executive Director, Paula Freeze know and she will do what she can to help!