News & Updates

Jan 6, 2023

CE schedule/location and ability to purchase set up now.

For more information about speakers and hotel information, please click here.

CE Dates are:
02/05/2023 - Greensboro (updated 1/6/23) - Schedule - Map - Hotel Link
03/26/2023 - Durham - Map
04/30/2023 - Charlotte - Map - Hotel Link
10/08/2023 - New Bern - Map
11/05/2023 - Asheville - Map

5/31/22

We look forward to seeing you in Charlotte on Sunday, June 5th. The information desk will open at 6:15 am.
You will need to pick up 2 pages with name/lic # stickers and barcodes on them from the desk outside the lecture room. You will put one of the stickers on the front white page that we collect from you at the end of the class. This will allow us to get you your CE credits uploaded faster and reduce any errors from hand writing, typos, and incorrect information.

First class will begin at 7:00 am.

Masks are optional but encouraged while in class.

You can find the schedule here and hotel information here.

As a reminder, when you pay your membership dues, your continuing education is included. Individual credit hours are no longer available for purchase.

4/4/22

Job openings can now be found on our site here.
We are accepting submissions to add to our new Job Openings for NC Opticians page. We hope this will be an easy and reliable way to get updated information about opportunities in your area. If you would like to post an opening, please fill out the form here.

2-24-22
Thank You for Your Help and Participation!

Last year, we asked for your participation in saving our license from being weakened. With your help, we were able to protect our license. We will continue to help fight to protect our license in North Carolina. We wanted to share the numbers from each campaign with you and send a thank you out to all of those that took the time to contribute.

1st Campaign (against HB 911) started July 4, 2021 - in ~30 days, we sent a total of 4440 emails to 15 different legislators - 296 emails per legislator
2nd Campaign (against SB-105) started on August 10, 2014 - in only 4 days, we sent 1276 emails to 11 different legislators - 116 emails per legislator

2-14-22

2022 CE Schedule:
June 5th - Charlotte
August 28th - Raleigh
November 13th- Asheville

8-19-21

Bill SB105 - the section regarding opticians and the weakening of our license was removed. Thank you once again for your help.

8-10-21

The text from Bill HB911 that was removed, has been inserted into Bill SB105

8-7-21

Bill HB911 - the section that would have weakened our license has been removed. Thank you all for your help and support with making that happen.