5.6 Ongoing Health and Safety Training

Lead Agencies must have ongoing training requirements for all caregivers, teachers, and directors of eligible CCDF providers for health and safety standards but have discretion on frequency and training content (e.g., pediatric CPR refresher every year and recertification every 2 years). Lead Agencies have discretion on which health and safety standards are subject to ongoing training. Lead Agencies may exempt relative providers from these requirements. 5.6.1 Required ongoing training of health and safety standards Describe any required ongoing training of health and safety standards for caregivers, teachers, and directors of the following CCDF eligible provider types. a. Licensed child care centers: Provider requirements for standards and training are mandated through legislative requirements. Licensed child care centers are required to have policies for all the federally required health and safety standards based on state legislative requirements and minimally, train directors, staff persons, substitutes, and unsupervised volunteers on the health and safety requirements each calendar year. CPR and first aid training & child development and learning training are required once every two calendar years. Additionally, directors and staff persons who work more than 20 hours per week must complete 24 hours of in-service training each calendar year. Staff persons who work 20 hours or less per week must complete 12 hours of in-service training each calendar year. Substitutes and unsupervised volunteers must complete at least two hours of yearly training on the health and safety standards. Minnesota plans to propose legislation in the 2025 session that will require substitutes working in licensed child care centers to have a minimum number of required hours of ongoing training each year. Minn. Stat. 142B.65. b. License-exempt child care centers: Provider requirements for standards and training are mandated through legislative requirements. Certified license-exempt centers are required to have policies for all the federally required health and safety standards based on state legislative requirements and minimally, train directors, staff persons, substitutes, and unsupervised volunteers on the health and safety requirements each calendar year. CPR and first aid training & child development and learning training are required once every two calendar years. Additionally, directors and staff persons must complete 6 hours of in- service training each calendar year. Substitutes and unsupervised volunteers must complete at least two hours of yearly training on the health and safety standards. Minnesota plans to propose legislation in the 2025 session that will require substitutes working in certified license exempt centers to have a minimum number of required hours of ongoing training each year. Minn. Stat. 142C.12. c. Licensed family child care homes: Provider requirements for standards and training are mandated through legislative requirements. Licensed family child care providers, second adult caregivers, and applicable substitutes must complete state-provided training covering federally required health and safety standards annually. CPR and first aid training and child development and learning and behavior guidance must be repeated every two years. Additionally, the license holder and each second adult caregiver must take four hours of training annually. Substitutes and adult caregivers who provide care for 500 or fewer hours per year must complete a minimum of one hour of training each calendar year. Minnesota plans to propose legislation in the 2025 session that will require substitutes to have a minimum number of required hours of ongoing training each year. Minn. Stat. 142B.70. d. License-exempt family child care homes: Legal nonlicensed providers: If not related to all children, every 2 years they must take training in all health and safety topic areas including recertification in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, at least 8 hours of training. Minnesota plans to propose legislation in the 2025 session that will require unrelated legal nonlicensed providers to have a minimum number of required hours of ongoing training each year. If related to all children in care, they must take 8 hours of on-going training in any topic. Related providers are encouraged, but not required, to complete training in federally required health and safety topic areas. Effective 10/1/2025, legal nonlicensed providers who serve unrelated children must complete at least 2 hours of training annually. e. Regulated or registered in-home child care: Legal nonlicensed providers: If not related to all children, every 2 years they must take training in all health and safety topic areas including recertification in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, at least 8 hours of training. Minnesota plans to propose legislation in the 2025 session that will require unrelated legal nonlicensed providers to have a minimum number of required hours of ongoing training each year. If related to all children in care, they must take 8 hours of on-going training in any topic. Related providers are encouraged, but not required, to complete training in federally required health and safety topic areas. Effective 10/1/2025, legal nonlicensed providers who serve unrelated children must complete at least 2 hours of training annually. f. Non-regulated or registered in-home child care: N/A