About Certification
How do I earn my NHWA Certified Home Watch Professional designation?
You must be a company principal or an employee of an NHWA member that is in good standing in order to be considered as a candidate for certification. This is an individual designation and not to be confused with being an NHWA Accredited member business.
There are certain qualifications you will need to have in order to begin the certification course:
Complete the Home Watch Boot Camp training, which includes the Certified Home Watch Professional curricula, hands-on training, and testing costs.
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You are currently employed by or own an existing Home Watch company and have joined the NHWA
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You have been a member of the NHWA for a period of 10 months and have gathered the practical knowledge necessary to display the designation confidently.
In order to obtain and maintain the certification, you must:
Pass the CHWP exam with a minimum score of 90%
Complete the requisite continuing education (CE) credits every two years and pass a recertification exam with a score of 90% or higher.
The cost for the NHWA Certified Home Watch Professional curriculum and exam is $350. Recertification curriculum and exam is $50.
Becoming an NHWA Certified Home Watch Professional will earn you the designation of being among the elite in the Home Watch industry. Holding our candidates to the highest qualifications and standards ensures our designees are truly deserving of the title of Certified Home Watch Professional.
Please contact the NHWA for all qualification details at (843) 357-6660 or info@nationalhomewatchassociation.org.
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Since our official launch in 2009, Home Watch businesses have earned their Certified Home Watch Professional Designation from the NHWA
Meeting requirements and going through a vetting process that assures the public of their commitment to excellence by setting and upholding the very highest of standards in our industry. For the past few years, members of our Advisory Board, Best Practices Committee, as well as members at large, have been talking about creating a training curriculum for our members and their employees. The consensus was that we should “certify” these Home Watch Inspectors and give them some sort of designation for them to display on their promotional material and website to announce their accomplishment.
Well, the conversation turned to action early in 2017, when our Advisory Board decided to move forward and begin to put the process in motion. The conversation commenced with discussions of what should be in the curriculum. It only made sense to base it on the NHWA’s Best Practices, Glossary of Terms and lots of input from leading Home Watch business owners throughout the United States and Canada. And, because we take the business of Home Watch so seriously, the curriculum is pretty serious, too. With that, we are proud to announce the official NHWA Certified Home Watch Professional designation for owners, principals, and employees of an NHWA member company.
