TripleRoute — requirements by state
North Dakota and Wisconsin, from the owner’s packages
The supervision requirements TripleRoute holds for these two states were supplied by the system’s owner and reviewer, outside the research report that covers the other 46. This page sets out each line as it was entered, with the authority the package gives for it. Where a package looked for something and did not find it, that is said, and no figure is given. A licensing board decides what it accepts; confirm with the board before relying on any of this.
Entered 2026-10-09.
North Dakota
LMSW — Licensed Master Social Worker → LCSW — Licensed Clinical Social Worker
North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners
| Subject | What the package says | Authority given | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | A master’s or doctorate in social work from a Board-approved social work program. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Experience | 3,000 hours of supervised post-master’s clinical social work experience. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Time allowed | The 3,000 hours are completed within a four-year period. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| First 1,500 hours | The initial 1,500 of the required hours are under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Supervision | A minimum of 150 hours of face-to-face clinical supervision with a Board-approved supervisor. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Group supervision | No more than 50 of the supervision hours may be group supervision. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Plan | A supervision plan is submitted before beginning, naming the proposed supervisor and including a copy of the supervisor’s license. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Change of supervisor | A new plan is submitted when the supervisor changes. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Records | The applicant keeps a supervision record of dates, time and content; the supervisor also keeps documentation of date, time and content. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Competencies | The supervisor evaluates and documents minimum competencies in six specified domains. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Examination and application | A passing examination score is used with the application within one year of the examination date; licensure requirements left incomplete after one year require a new application. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Background checks | Statewide and nationwide criminal-history checks and child abuse and neglect checks are required of applicants. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Private practice | The private practice of social work is restricted to the Licensed Clinical Social Worker. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Another supervisor | Additional supervision may come from another qualified mental-health professional only under Board-approved hardship conditions and supervisor-qualification requirements. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Rule text |
| Supervision by video | Whether synchronous video satisfies “face-to-face” for this supervision. The rule says face-to-face and does not define video as equivalent. | N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41; N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 (as cited in Section F of the owner’s directive) | Open question |
Recorded as not found, or to be borne in mind
- Not found in the authority the package read, and given no number here: a weekly or monthly supervision frequency; a maximum number of people in group supervision; a separate minimum of direct client contact.
- The package states a four-year maximum and no minimum elapsed time. No minimum is applied.
- The package was transcribed from photographs of a screen (2026-09-12). The primary links it gives — N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41 and N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 — had not been opened when this was written.
Sources named by the package: N.D.C.C. ch. 43-41 · N.D. Admin. Code ch. 75.5-02-03 · North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners forms and guidance · ASWB comparison of clinical supervision requirements (compiled March 2024), as a cross-check only
Wisconsin
APSW — Advanced Practice Social Worker, or Independent Social Worker (ISW) → LCSW — Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board
| Subject | What the package says | Authority given | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | A master’s or doctoral degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited (or pre-accredited) program, with a clinical concentration and supervised clinical field training. | DSPS, Licensed Clinical Social Worker credentialing page | Board publication |
| Credential while accruing | Hours count toward the LCSW only while the person holds the Advanced Practice Social Worker or Independent Social Worker credential. A master’s degree alone is not enough: hours earned without one of those credentials are not countable. | Wis. Stat. § 457.08(4); the owner’s determination of 16 August 2026 | Rule text |
| Experience | “engaged in the equivalent of at least 3,000 hours of clinical social work practice”. | Wis. Stat. § 457.08(4)(c) | Rule text |
| Client contact | “including at least 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact that includes the diagnosis and treatment of individuals based on the applicable edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or its equivalent”. | Wis. Stat. § 457.08(4)(c) | Rule text |
| Diagnosis and treatment | Within the 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact, at least 600 hours are diagnosis and treatment of individuals under the DSM. It is a part of the 1,000, not an addition to it. | Wisconsin Administrative Code (the section was not pinned in the package); the owner’s determination of 16 August 2026 | Rule text |
| Supervisor | Supervised by one of: a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in social work; a licensed clinical social worker who has engaged in the equivalent of 5 years of full-time clinical social work; a psychiatrist or a licensed psychologist; or an individual approved by the social worker section or who satisfies the supervision requirements in the examining board’s rules. | Wis. Stat. § 457.08(4)(c)1.–4. | Rule text |
| Approval of another supervisor | A supervisor outside the standard categories must be approved in advance by the Social Worker Section: “the approval must be obtained prior to starting supervision.” | Wis. Admin. Code § MPSW 4.01(6)(e); DSPS credentialing page | Rule text |
| Pace | Supervision includes face-to-face individual or group sessions “of at least one hour duration during each week of supervised practice”. “The one hour per week supervision requirement may be averaged out over the course of the period of supervision.” | Wis. Admin. Code § MPSW 4.01(1) | Rule text |
| Group supervision | “the group shall consist of no more than 6 persons receiving supervision for every one person providing supervision”; time that is primarily social activity is not credited. | Wis. Admin. Code § MPSW 4.01 (the subsection was not pinned in the package) | Rule text |
| Who may supervise | “Such supervision may be exercised by a person other than an employment supervisor.” | Wis. Admin. Code § MPSW 4.01 (the subsection was not pinned in the package) | Rule text |
| Examination | The ASWB Clinical Examination, unless the applicant holds Board Certified Diplomate status from the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. | DSPS, Licensed Clinical Social Worker credentialing page | Board publication |
Recorded as not found, or to be borne in mind
- Not found in the authority the package read, and given no number here: a cap on group supervision hours; a period within which the hours must be completed.
- The 600 hours of diagnosis and treatment sit inside the 1,000 hours of client contact, which sit inside the 3,000. A record with 3,050 hours, 1,100 of client contact and 540 of diagnosis and treatment is not complete.
- The package records that its citations had not been captured and archived, and that two subsections of MPSW 4.01 and the Administrative Code section for the 600 hours were not pinned.
Sources named by the package: Wis. Stat. § 457.08(4) · Wis. Admin. Code ch. MPSW 4 · Wisconsin DSPS credentialing pages · the owner’s determination of 16 August 2026