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: Centers: Directors, teachers, and staff shall complete training related to child care, including one hour on safe sleep prior to caring for infants and annually thereafter, and one hour annually on mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect. All staff shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in infant and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator by the American heart association, American red cross, or other similar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training programs that are approved by the department. All staff members shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in pediatric first aid by a program approved by the department. Staff are required to maintain current pediatric first aid certification. Preschool and School-Age: Directors and staff shall complete one hour of department- approved mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect training annually. All staff members shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator by the American heart association, American red cross, or other similar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training programs that are approved by the department. All staff members shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in pediatric first aid by a program approved by the department. Staff are required to maintain current pediatric CPR/AED certification. b. License-exempt child care centers: N/A c. Licensed family child care homes: Family and Group: The provider and staff members shall certify annual completion of one hour of department-approved mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect training. They must also certify completion of one hour of department-approved safe sleep training prior to staff member providing care to infants and annually thereafter. The provider and staff members shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in infant and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator by the American heart association, American red cross, or other similar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training programs that are approved by the department. The provider and staff members shall be currently certified within ninety days of employment and prior to staff member having unsupervised access to children under care, in pediatric first aid by a program approved by the department. Provider and staff are required to maintain current pediatric first aid certification. d. License-exempt family child care homes: Self-Declaration: Shall be currently certified in infant and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator by the American heart association, the American red cross, or other similar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training programs that are approved by the department. They shall be currently certified in pediatric first aid by a program approved by the department. Self-declaration provider shall complete a minimum of three hours of department-approved training annually, including one hour on safe sleep prior to provider providing care to infants and one hour on mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect. The same training courses may be counted toward self-declaration annual requirements only if at least three years has passed since the last completion date of that training course, with the exception of safe sleep and mandated reporter annual training. Self-declaration providers shall ensure that the emergency designee completes required department approved training annually, including one hour on safe sleep prior to emergency designee providing care to infants and one hour on mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect. The emergency designee shall be currently certified in infant and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator by the American heart association, American red cross, or other similar cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training programs that are approved by the department. The emergency designee shall also be currently certified in pediatric first aid by a program approved by the department. e. Regulated or registered in-home child care: The provider shall complete one hour of department-approved training annually on safe sleep prior to in-home provider having unsupervised access to infants and one hour on mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect. Registered in-home providers are not required to maintain a pediatric CPR/AED or pediatric first aid certification. f. Non-regulated or registered in-home child care: N/A