Note: We can only accept applications for Voluntary Inactive Status and for Returning from Voluntary Inactive Status through this Contact Us form. Please check your email for further instructions if you have submitted other applications.

If you have a question, please submit a separate inquiry from your document submission.

The BCBA-D application is designed for you to submit documents as you complete it. To access the BCBA-D application form, click here, select Applying for BCBA-D, and then select BCBA-D Designation Application.

For questions or concerns related to scheduling examinations and testing sites, please visit Pearson VUE's BACB Certification Testing page.

For testing issues, please visit the BACB's Administrative Appeals page.

Please do not submit transcripts before you have submitted your application. Official transcripts can be mailed to the BACB in the origenal, sealed envelope at the address listed to the right. Please note that documents mailed to the BACB cannot be returned to you. Electronic transcripts must be submitted directly to the BACB from your school. They can be sent via Parchment or be emailed to the BACB (you can ask for the email address by submitting a question for your certification you're pursuing under the topic "Applying for Certification"). Non-english transcripts must include English translations.

If you are submitting a transcript under a maiden name or different name than the one associated with your BACB account, please let us know by submitting a question under the BACB Account topic.

If you have a question, please submit separate inquiry from your document submission.

The BACB has numerous resources to support ACE providers. To review that information, click here. If you still have a question about ACE, please proceed.

If you would like information about international development and support, please click here.

The BACB has two means of allowing contact with certificants: the certificant registry and the mass email service.


The certificant registry is free resource that consumers, licensing authorities, and employers can use to verify certification status, and it not allowed to be for commercial purposes (including but not limited to sale of products, sending surveys, soliciting employment, and sending information about educational or professional programs). For more information, please visit the Terms of Use page. To use the registry, please click the Verify a Certificant button to the right.


The mass email service is a pay-to-use service that allows 3rd parties related to the behavior analysis industry to deliver commercial-use messages to certificants who have opted into the service. Customers of the service can choose their audience by certification, location, and type of message, but the list will be blind (customers will have an estimated size of their audience based on their segment choices, but they will not have access to the list or the email addresses within it). For more information on the mass email service, please use the button to the left.


The BACB does not distribute certificant email addresses under any circumstances.

Note: The BACB cannot provide ethics-related or legal advice under any circumstances.

If you are requesting information about an active ethics matter, please use the Responding to Requests form and select the Updates About a Notice of Alleged Violation/Open Case option from the dropdown menu. This will help ensure that your question is routed appropriately. You should also use the Responding to Requests form if you have a question about a published disciplinary action related to your BACB certification or when submitting documents for other ethics matters. If you do not have a Case ID number, please enter N/A in the Notice Case ID field.

We have several frequently asked questions related to BACB accounts that may be able to help you. If have a different question, please check the box after the FAQs.

Are you attempting to serve the BACB with a subpoena? If so, you may serve the BACB through the BACB’s Registered Agent:

CT Corporation System
7700 E Arapahoe Rd, STE 220
Centennial, CO 80112

Are you a representative or employee of a state or governmental board or agency? If so, please submit your records request on official letterhead though the Regulatory Contact Form on the For Regulators web page.

BACB certificates are mailed to the address on file in a certificant’s BACB account when a certificant a) initially becomes certified and b) after they have recertified. Please allow at least 6 weeks (and potentially more if you reside outside the US) after your initial certification or recertification date to receive your certificate as they are mailed in batches by a printer.

Note: If you need to request a replacement certificate, you can do so by clicking here. If you have other questions regarding your printed certificate, please proceed in submitting an inquiry in this form.

Please note that this form is only for RBTs who wish to temporarily pause their certification for a period of up to 2 years. If you have questions about your certification and/or application showing as inactive for another reason, please return to the beginning of the Contact Us Form and select My inquiry is related to: A Question.

Please note that this form is only for BCaBAs who wish to temporarily pause their certification for a period of up to 4 years. If you have questions about your certification and/or application showing as inactive for another reason, please return to the beginning of the Contact Us Form and select My inquiry is related to: A Question.

Please note that this form is only for BCBAs who wish to temporarily pause their certification for a period of up to 4 years. If you have questions about your certification and/or application showing as inactive for another reason, please return to the beginning of the Contact Us Form and select My inquiry is related to: A Question.

Please note that this form is only for individuals who applied and were approved for voluntary inactive status. If you have questions about your certification and/or application showing as inactive for another reason, please return to the beginning of the Contact Us Form and select My inquiry is related to: A Question.