About Us

The National Organization of Alternative Programs (NOAP) was founded in Arlington, Virginia in March of 1999. Originally founded with the support of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, NOAP felt it could better reach multidisciplinary and non-nursing programs as a separate organization.

NOAP was established to promote public safety by developing alternatives to licensure discipline, promoting safe practice and retention through rehabilitation, monitoring, research education and standardization of programs; and to collaborate with other professional and consumers to achieve those outcomes.

The mission of NOAP is to promote public safety through participation of potentially impaired healthcare professionals in monitored rehabilitation and recovery as an alternative to license discipline, emphasizing fitness to practice and retention of competent professionals. NOAP is committed to working in cooperation with regulatory and professional organizations toward this objective.