Certified Senior Advisor - Canadian Academy of Senior Advisors Inc

Training Options

The Canadian Academy of Senior Advisors, your CSA membership organization, offers its innovative designation training in three formats:

Live Class - Powerful & Intensive	Correspondence - Convenience of Self-Study
An intensive 3½ day educational program taught live by faculty members from Canada and the USA. The class ends with a closed-book, proctored, multiple-choice exam administered on the morning of the fourth day.	Correspondence course participants receive our compressive study text book, and 24 audio CDs of 24 "Live" class presentations. The correspondence course is self-paced; the student completes the requirements for the CSA designation by taking a Proctored examination and doing a brief writing assignment.

Fast Start - The Best of Both Worlds	Fast Finish - The Best of Both Worlds
A dynamic combination of Live Class and Self Study. Experience the power of a live class session combined with the convenience of self study. One day of lectures taught by a renowned faculty member to launch the program, and students complete the remainder of the material at their own convenience.	A dynamic combination of Live Class and Self Study. Experience the power of a live class session combined with the convenience of self study. One day of lectures taught by a renowned faculty member to wrap up the program. The class ends with a closed-book, proctored, multiple-choice exam administered on the morning of the next day.

Please review our inclusive Canadian Curriculum

Study Material
Each format provides you with a hard-cover study text book "Working With Seniors: Health, Financial and Social Issues" with 600 pages of the most up-to-date information on 50-plus and senior issues, plus an extensive Canadian Study Guide dealing with the unique Canadian 'Grand Boomers' and Senior’s concerns, as well as a CSA Participant Workbook to guide the registrant through key material for each chapter.

Ongoing Support
Upon successful completion of the course and exam the student will receive one publication per month (there are four of them that rotate), they will be listed on this website in the “Find a CSA” webpage, and they will have exclusive access to the CSA Marketing Store.

Membership
Once a student has passed the exam by obtaining 75%, they are designated as a CSA and they become members of the Canadian Academy of Senior Advisors. To maintain the designation, and membership, the CSA is required to renew their membership each year upon the anniversary of passing the exam. The membership fee is included in the tuition fee for the first year thereafter, the fee is $195 plus GST per year. This membership fee allows the CSA to:

• Continue to use of the designation.
• To enjoy ongoing support through the publication they receive each month.
• To continue to be listed on the website, and
• To continue to have exclusive access to the CSA Marketing Store.

The membership fee also funds the independent Board of Standards that governs and protects the integrity of the designation.

Members tell us that the CSA training is absolutely the finest training of its kind.

“The CSA course is one of the best courses that I have ever taken. The value of this course opens your eyes to the needs, desires and wants of Seniors. Never neglect a senior, they are too precious”.
- Charles F. Jireada, CSA, Dundee Wealth Management.