Pre-service: Family day care home: prior to initial licensing the applicant/licensee must complete at least twenty-four (24) clock hours of child care and development training, including at least 4 hours in each of six topic areas, per the DHR Minimum Standards for Family Day Care Homes (Ala. Admin. Code ch. 660-5-27); a group day care home assistant caregiver must complete at least twelve (12) clock hours within the first 30 days of employment. Day care center: child care workers/teachers must complete at least twelve (12) clock hours of training within 30 days after employment (at least 1 hour in each of six areas), and the center director must have at least 20 clock hours in administration/management plus 4 clock hours in quality child care, per the DHR Minimum Standards for Day Care Centers (Ala. Admin. Code ch. 660-5-26). Child Care Subsidy participants must also complete at least 1 hour of preservice training in each of 11 required health-and-safety topic areas before receiving subsidy funds.
Annual: Family day care home: the licensee must obtain at least twenty (20) clock hours of child-care-related training each year, and a group day care home assistant caregiver at least twelve (12) clock hours each year, per the DHR Minimum Standards for Family Day Care Homes (Ala. Admin. Code ch. 660-5-27). Day care center: directors must obtain at least twenty-four (24) clock hours per year, child care workers/teachers at least twelve (12) clock hours per year, and service staff (cooks, bus drivers, janitors) at least four (4) clock hours per year, per the DHR Minimum Standards for Day Care Centers (Ala. Admin. Code ch. 660-5-26); CPR and First Aid training does not count toward required hours.
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Alaska administrative code. Contact your Alaska licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: A full-time administrator or caregiver must receive at least 24 hours of annual training relevant to child care and development (at least one hour of which must address a health and safety training topic), while a part-time caregiver working 15 hours or fewer per week must complete at least 12 hours of annual training (at least one hour on a health and safety topic) (7 AAC 57.350(f) full-time; 7 AAC 57.350(i) part-time).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Arizona administrative code. Contact your Arizona licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Each child-care center staff member who provides child care services must complete 24 or more clock hours of training every 12 months under Arizona's rules amended effective Aug. 3, 2025 (increased from the prior 18 hours), covering at least two topic areas; a staff member with less than 12 months of child care experience must complete at least 12 hours in child growth and development topics in the first 12 months (Ariz. Admin. Code R9-5-403(B), Supp. 25-2; 31 A.A.R. 2015, effective Aug. 3, 2025).
Pre-service: All new caregivers/staff who provide direct care must receive a basic orientation on policies, the Minimum Licensing Requirements, and emergency procedures before providing care, and must complete an eight (8) clock-hour Introduction orientation within three (3) months of employment (and every three years thereafter); they may not be left alone with children until the orientation is completed (DCCECE Family Home MLR 303.7; Child Care Center MLR 303.3-303.4). Newly licensed family home caregivers must also attend Family Child Care Provider Training and the Business Administration Scale (BAS) training within six (6) months of being licensed (Family Home MLR 303.13).
Annual: All caregivers/staff who work directly with children must obtain at least fifteen (15) hours of continuing early childhood education training each year, registered with the DCCECE Professional Development Registry or other approved provider (DCCECE Family Home MLR 303.6; Child Care Center MLR 301.4).
Pre-service: At least 15 hours of health and safety training, including pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR plus a one-time preventive health practices course (and, for licenses issued after January 1, 2016, one additional hour of childhood nutrition training), is required as a condition of licensure for the family day care home licensee or for at least one director or teacher at each child care center, with first aid/CPR administered through approved providers (Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1596.866); California otherwise sets staff qualifications by college semester units (teachers 12 ECE units, directors 15 units of which 3 are in administration/staff relations) under Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22 §§ 101216.1, 101215.1 rather than orientation clock hours.
Annual: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published California administrative code. Contact your California licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Colorado administrative code. Contact your Colorado licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: All staff who work with children must complete a minimum of fifteen (15) clock hours of ongoing professional development each year, of which at least three (3) clock hours per year must be in the focus of social-emotional development (8 CCR 1402-1, Section 2.213(M)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Connecticut administrative code. Contact your Connecticut licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: For child care centers and group child care homes, each program staff member must complete ongoing annual training that is at least one percent (1%) of the staff member's total annual hours worked (content per 45 CFR 98.41 on and after April 1, 2025), per Conn. Agencies Regs. 19a-79-4a(h)(2); Connecticut does not require licensed family child care home providers to complete a set number of annual continuing-education hours (only continuous first aid/CPR certification), per Conn. Agencies Regs. 19a-87b-6.
Pre-service: Family/large family applicants who will work with children must complete documented pre-service training before licensure including 6 hours of quality-assured child development and 3 hours of quality-assured positive behavior management/social-emotional development plus health and safety topics; in centers all staff, substitutes, and volunteers (working more than five days or 40 hours a year) must complete OCCL orientation training before working with children, which counts as 3 clock hours toward annual training (DELACARE Regs for Family and Large Family Child Care Homes, Sec. 6.N; DELACARE Regs for Early Care and Education and School-Age Centers, Sec. 32 Orientation).
Annual: Family child care home licensees must complete at least 12 clock hours of annual training, and large family providers/assistants/aides (and any licensee present 7+ hours/week) at least 15 clock hours; in centers, staff working 25 or more hours/week must complete 18 clock hours annually (including at least 2 hours health/safety) and those working less than 25 hours/week 9 clock hours (including at least 1 hour health/safety), as accepted by OCCL (DELACARE Regs for Family and Large Family Child Care Homes, Sec. 48.B and Sec. 60.B; DELACARE Regs for Early Care and Education and School-Age Centers, Sec. 33.B-C).
Pre-service: All child care personnel must complete an approved 40-clock-hour Introductory Child Care Training course (Part I 30 hours plus Part II 10 hours), beginning within 90 days after employment and completing it within one year after training begins as evidenced by passing a competency examination; in addition, Universal Precautions training must be completed prior to beginning work, and Fire Extinguisher training and (for those caring for infants) Safe Sleep/Shaken Baby Syndrome training must be completed within the first 30 days and prior to caring for children (Fla. Stat. 402.305(2)(d); Florida DCF Child Care Facility Training Requirements).
Annual: After completing the introductory training, child care personnel must take an additional 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) of approved in-service training, or 10 clock hours of equivalent training, annually (Fla. Stat. 402.305(2)(d)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Georgia administrative code. Contact your Georgia licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Every calendar year after the first year of employment, the Provider and all staff must complete 10 clock hours of Department-approved continuing training (including at least 2 hours in evidence-based language/literacy practices and at least 2 hours in child development and health/safety topics) — Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 290-2-3-.07(9)(a) for homes and R. 591-1-1-.33(5) for centers.
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Hawaii administrative code. Contact your Hawaii licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Hawaii administrative code. Contact your Hawaii licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Idaho administrative code. Contact your Idaho licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: The owner or operator of a daycare center must ensure each employee receives four (4) hours of ongoing training in child development areas related to daycare every twelve (12) months after the employee's hire date (Idaho Code 39-1119).
Pre-service: Day care home applicants and assistants must complete at least 15 hours of pre-service training listed in Appendix D not more than one year prior to the application date (which includes Mandated Reporter Training and, for infant caregivers, SIDS/SUID/safe-sleep/Shaken Baby topics); the package includes the DCFS Day Care Home Licensing Orientation, a 3-contact-hour course per DCFS training (89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4 and Appendix D).
Annual: Day care home caregivers must complete 15 clock hours of in-service training per licensing year in accordance with Appendix D, with up to 5 excess hours carried forward to the next year (89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9 / Appendix D).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Indiana administrative code. Contact your Indiana licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Child care CENTER directors and all persons counted in child/staff ratios must complete a minimum of twelve (12) clock hours of in-service training annually, and lead caregivers who do not meet the educational qualifications must complete an additional eight (8) hours of in-service training per year (470 IAC 3-4.7-35). For licensed child care HOMES, no numeric annual continuing-education clock-hour total is specified; requirements are task-based: at least one direct caregiver trained in pediatric CPR annually and a first aid course completed every three (3) years (470 IAC 3-1.1-33.5).
Pre-service: Before registration, an Iowa child development home provider must complete department-approved minimum health-and-safety training covering ten required topic areas, complete two hours of Iowa's mandatory child-abuse-reporter training, and hold current first-aid and infant/child CPR certification (Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-110.10(1)"a"-"c"); the ten health-and-safety topics are commonly satisfied through Iowa's 12-clock-hour Essentials Child Care Preservice series, though the code itself sets no single total-hour figure beyond "at least one contact hour" per training element under 441-110.10(3)"b".
Annual: Iowa child development home providers must receive a minimum of 24 hours of approved training during each two-year registration period, and a specific training or class may not be used to meet the minimum continuing-education requirement more than one time every five years (Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-110.10(1)"d").
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Kansas administrative code. Contact your Kansas licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: In each licensure year, each family child care home provider must complete 16 clock-hours of professional development training, four of which must cover specified health-and-safety subject areas (K.A.R. 28-4-114a, amended August 2, 2024); in a child care center or preschool, each program director, each staff member counted in the staff-child ratio, and each counted volunteer must likewise complete 16 clock-hours of professional development training each licensure year, four of which must cover health-and-safety subjects (K.A.R. 28-4-428a).
Pre-service: Kentucky requires six (6) hours of cabinet-approved pre-service orientation training; a family child-care home provider must complete it within three (3) months of application for certification, and child-care center staff must complete six (6) hours of cabinet-approved orientation within the first three (3) months of employment (922 KAR 2:100 Section 2(9)(a) and KRS 199.8982(1)(a)6; 922 KAR 2:090 Section 11(16)(a)).
Annual: Kentucky requires nine (9) hours of cabinet-approved early care and education training annually for family child-care home providers (three (3) hours in the first year) and fifteen (15) hours annually for child-care center staff (nine (9) hours in the first year), in both cases including one and one-half (1.5) hours of pediatric abusive head trauma training once every five (5) years (922 KAR 2:100 Section 10(1); 922 KAR 2:090 Section 11(16)(b),(c)).
Pre-service: Louisiana requires orientation training rather than a fixed pre-service clock-hour total: before being left alone with children each staff member must complete the LDE Key Training Module 1 and the DCFS online Mandated Reporter Training, then complete Key Orientation Modules 2 and 3 within 30 days, and family child care providers must also complete a Pre-service Orientation, all approved/provided by the Louisiana Department of Education (La. Admin. Code tit. 28, Pt. CLXI, §1719; LDOE in-home/family provider registration steps).
Annual: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Louisiana administrative code. Contact your Louisiana licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Pre-service: Family child care: either the provider or at least one staff member must hold current Adult and Pediatric First Aid and CPR certification and must have completed at least 6 hours of pre-licensing training in healthy/safe environments, child development and related topics (10-148 CMR Ch. 33 §7.A.4.b); all staff must receive orientation training within the first 90 days of service, with fire/disaster/emergency procedures completed within the first week (10-148 CMR Ch. 33 §8.A). Child Care Facilities must provide pre-service orientation to all new staff and volunteers prior to or during the first week of service (10-148 CMR Ch. 32 §14.1, 'Pre-service orientation'). Training is registered through Maine's Professional Development Network.
Annual: Family child care providers and staff: 12 hours of ongoing training required annually (10-148 CMR Ch. 33 §8.B). Small Child Care Facilities (3-12 children): 12 hours of ongoing training per year for all childcare staff (10-148 CMR Ch. 32 §26.2). Larger Child Care Centers: staff scheduled to work 20 hours/week or less need 18 hours of training per year and staff scheduled to work more than 20 hours/week need 30 hours per year (10-148 CMR Ch. 32 §27, 'Ongoing training,' applied to facilities licensed for 13-20, 21-49, and 50+ children).
Pre-service: A Maryland family child care provider must complete either the 90-clock-hour pre-service course or its approved equivalent OR at least 24 clock hours of approved training that includes 4 clock hours in each of the six core-of-knowledge competencies (within the 2 years before application), plus first aid, CPR, and emergency/health-and-safety training before providing care, per COMAR 13A.15.06.02; a child care teacher or director in a preschool center must complete 6 semester hours or 90 clock hours of approved pre-service training or hold the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, per COMAR 13A.16.06.09.
Annual: A Maryland family child care provider must complete 18 clock hours of approved continued training in the first registration year and then a total of 12 clock hours each subsequent year (at least 6 core-of-knowledge clock hours and no more than 6 elective clock hours), per COMAR 13A.15.06.02; child care center directors and teachers must complete at least 12 clock hours per full year of employment (minimum 6 core-of-knowledge, maximum 6 elective), per COMAR 13A.16.06.05.
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Massachusetts administrative code. Contact your Massachusetts licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Family child care educators must complete at least 5 hours of professional development per year if working more than 25 hours/year but fewer than 10 hours/week, and at least 10 hours per year if working 10 or more hours/week; small group and school-age educators must complete 10 hours per year; and large group educators of children younger than school age must complete 5, 12, or 20 hours per year depending on weekly hours worked (606 CMR 7.09(15)(f); 7.09(16)(c) for small group/school-age; 7.09(18)(d) for large group).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Michigan administrative code. Contact your Michigan licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Child care center program staff (other than substitute teachers and unsupervised volunteers) must complete 16 clock hours of professional development per calendar year, reduced to 10 clock hours at small capacity centers (Mich. Admin. Code R 400.8216a); for family and group child care homes the licensee must complete not less than 10 clock hours and other personnel not less than 5 clock hours of professional development each calendar year (Mich. Admin. Code R 400.1924).
Pre-service: Family child care applicants must complete at least 4 hours of child development and learning and behavior guidance training prior to initial licensure plus the 6-hour Supervising for Safety for Family Child Care course, in addition to pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR training that must be completed before initial licensure and before caring for a child (no fixed clock-hour minimum is specified in statute for first aid or CPR) (Minn. Stat. 142B.70, subds. 3a, 4a, 5a, and 10b), administered through the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) licensing system.
Annual: Each family child care license holder and each second adult caregiver must complete 16 hours of ongoing training each year (each calendar year as of January 1, 2025), and this requirement does not vary by years of experience (Minn. Stat. 142B.70, subd. 8(a); DCYF training requirements for family child care providers).
Pre-service: Before a new license is issued, owners, directors, and director designees must each complete mandatory training covering Child Care Regulations, Director Orientation, and Playground Safety (no fixed total clock-hour count is specified); separately, students in a field-study/practicum placement must have documentation of a minimum of one hour of orientation within one week of placement covering child-abuse reporting, emergency, discipline, and transportation policies (MSDH home Rule 2.5.8(1) and Rule 2.5.6(2)(f); center Rule 1.5.8(1), Source: Miss. Code Ann. § 43-20-8).
Annual: All child care staff, directors, director designees, and caregivers must complete 15 contact hours of staff development accrued during each licensure year, of which no more than five contact hours may be in-service training provided by the facility itself, and hours must be approved by the licensing agency (MSDH center Rule 1.5.8(2)-(4); home Rule 2.5.8(2)-(4), Source: Miss. Code Ann. § 43-20-8).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Missouri administrative code. Contact your Missouri licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: The provider must obtain at least twelve (12) clock hours of child care-related training during each calendar year, and any assistant who works or volunteers more than five (5) hours per week must meet the same twelve-hour requirement (5 CSR 25-400.105(4)(A)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Montana administrative code. Contact your Montana licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: All directors, early childhood teachers, and assistant teachers at any child care facility must complete annual training required to be current on the Montana ECP Practitioner Registry, approved through MTECP (ARM 37.95.162(1)-(2)); teachers (ECTs) at facilities serving exclusively school-age children must complete at least eight hours of continuing education annually and are not required to be on the registry (ARM 37.95.162(5)); and all directors, substitutes, ECTs, ECLTs, and ECATs must complete a health-and-safety review course at least every three years, which counts toward the required annual training (ARM 37.95.162(6)).
Pre-service: Before a Family Child Care Home I provisional license is issued, the applicant must complete a two-hour orientation training provided by the Department plus CPR and First Aid training; child care center staff and volunteers must be provided orientation prior to having direct responsibility for the care of children (391 NAC 1-006.04A and 391 NAC 3-006.10A).
Annual: Each licensee/staff member providing direct care (not including substitutes or volunteers) must obtain a minimum of 12 clock hours of training annually, reduced to six clock hours annually for staff who work 20 hours or less per week (391 NAC 1-006.04E for family child care homes and 391 NAC 3-006.10D for centers).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Nevada administrative code. Contact your Nevada licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Each person employed in a child care facility, other than a facility that provides care for ill children, must complete 24 hours of training each year, of which 12 hours must be devoted to the care, education and safety of children specific to the age group served and 2 hours must address lifelong wellness, health and safety including childhood obesity, nutrition and physical activity (NRS 432A.1775); NAC 432A.326(1)(b) incorporates this NRS 432A.1775 figure by reference for facilities not caring for ill children, while facilities that do care for ill children must complete at least 24 hours (NAC 432A.326(1)(a)).
Pre-service: Child care staff responsible for supervising children must complete a minimum of 6 hours of professional development (orientation) within 90 days of the first date of employment, or within 2 weeks for programs operating 3 months of the year or less (He-C 4002.33(a)).
Annual: Center directors, agency administrators, site coordinators/directors, and child care staff must complete 18 hours of professional development within their first 12 months of hire and annually thereafter, of which a minimum of 3 hours must be in health and safety topics; part-time staff working fewer than 25 hours per week must complete 12 hours within their first 12 months and annually thereafter (He-C 4002.33(f),(g)).
Pre-service: Newly hired center staff must receive orientation training within two weeks of the first day of employment and before being left alone with children, of which up to six hours may count toward the annual continuing staff development requirement; for Family Child Care, the sponsoring organization must provide 18 hours of pre-service training to each provider and alternate provider before issuance of a Certificate of Registration (N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.8; N.J.A.C. 3A:54-4.2).
Annual: Child care center staff must complete 12 hours of continuing staff development each year, while the director, head teacher(s), group teacher(s), and program supervisor(s) must each complete 20 hours per year; for Family Child Care, the sponsoring organization must offer at least eight hours of in-service training to providers each year, and providers must document 20 hours of in-service training over each three-year registration period for renewal (N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.8; N.J.A.C. 3A:54-4.2).
Pre-service: New staff working directly with children must complete the 45-hour entry-level course (or an approved three-credit early-care-and-education course) prior to or within six months of employment; the rule does not set a separate clock-hour minimum that must be completed before unsupervised contact (8.16.2.23.B.2.c NMAC), administered by the Early Childhood Education and Care Department.
Annual: Each staff person working directly with children more than 20 hours per week, including the director, must obtain at least 24 hours of training each year; substitutes and educators working 20 or fewer hours per week complete half (12 hours) (8.16.2.23.B.2.d and 8.16.2.23.A.6 NMAC).
Pre-service: Before a family or group family day care registration is issued, the applicant must complete an OCFS-approved health and safety pre-service training course that meets federal minimum health-and-safety pre-service requirements (a 15-hour course for family and group family day care providers, completed pre-service or within three months) (18 NYCRR 417.14(b); NY OCFS Training Requirements).
Annual: New York requires child care providers and staff to complete a minimum of 30 hours of OCFS-approved training every two years, with 15 of those hours obtained within the person's first six months at the program, covering the ten state-required training topic areas (including adverse childhood experiences) (18 NYCRR 417.14(c) and (f)).
Pre-service: Each North Carolina child care center must ensure every new employee expected to have contact with children receives 16 hours of on-site orientation within the first six weeks of employment, including 6 of those hours within the first two weeks (10A NCAC 09 .1101(a)); health and safety training must then be completed within one year of employment (10A NCAC 09 .1102(a)), and family child care home operators complete a pre-licensing visit and new staff orientation requirements referenced in 10A NCAC 09 .1703 (set out in Rules .1702(d) and .1729(c)).
Annual: After the first year of employment, North Carolina child care center staff and family child care home operators must complete annual on-going training that scales with education and experience: 5 clock hours (four-year or higher degree in a child-care-related field), 8 (two-year degree in a child-care-related field or a NC Early Childhood Administration Credential), 10 (certificate or diploma in a child-care-related field or a NC Early Childhood Credential), 15 (10 years documented experience as a teacher, director, or caregiver in a licensed arrangement), or 20 clock hours if none of these criteria apply; CPR and First Aid do not count toward this requirement (10A NCAC 09 .1103(a),(c) for centers; 10A NCAC 09 .1703(d) for family child care homes).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published North Dakota administrative code. Contact your North Dakota licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: A family child care provider must complete a minimum of nine hours of department-approved child care training annually (including one hour of mandated-reporter training) plus one hour of annual safe-sleep training when caring for infants; in group child care, staff annual hours scale by hours worked (eight hours/year for staff working thirty or more hours/week, six hours at twenty to twenty-nine, four hours at ten to nineteen, two hours under ten) and the group child care supervisor must complete at least ten hours annually (NDAC 75-03-08-10(3)-(4), 75-03-09-12(6), and 75-03-09-10).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Ohio administrative code. Contact your Ohio licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Ohio requires each child care center staff member and administrator to 'complete a minimum of six clock hours of training annually each fiscal year' (July 1 through June 30) after the initial required trainings, and health trainings (first aid, CPR, communicable disease) do not count toward the six hours (OAC 5180:2-12-10).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Oklahoma administrative code. Contact your Oklahoma licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Oklahoma requires at least twelve (12) clock-hours of approved ECE/CD/SA professional development annually to maintain Oklahoma Professional Development Ladder (OPDL) Level 1 — the minimum level required for caregivers — and twenty (20) clock-hours annually for Levels 2 through 11 (OAC 340 Appendix FF — Oklahoma Professional Development Ladder; required by OAC 340:110-3-85(h) for homes and OAC 340:110-3-284 for centers).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Oregon administrative code. Contact your Oregon licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: A Registered Family Child Care provider must complete at least 10 clock hours of formal training related to child care during the two years preceding each renewal, of which at least 6 clock hours must be in child development (OAR 414-210-0380(3)); a Certified Child Care Center director, multi-site coordinator, teacher, and aide II must each complete at least 15 clock hours of training annually related to child care, of which at least 8 clock hours is in child development and 1 hour in health, safety, and nutrition (OAR 414-305-0380(1)(a)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Pennsylvania administrative code. Contact your Pennsylvania licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Each child care staff person must obtain an annual minimum of 12 clock hours of child care training (55 Pa. Code § 3270.31(e)); professional development required within 90 days of hire under subsection (f) may count toward these annual hours on a one-time basis (55 Pa. Code § 3270.31(i)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Rhode Island administrative code. Contact your Rhode Island licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Family Child Care Home providers and full-time assistants must complete twelve (12) hours of professional development per calendar year (four of which must address specified health and safety topics), while year-round Child Care Center program leadership and classroom staff must complete twenty-four (24) hours per year (approximately two hours per month) (218-RICR-70-00-2.3.5(D)(1); 218-RICR-70-00-1.12(F)(1)).
Pre-service: South Carolina child care centers must give every new staff member, volunteer, and emergency person orientation (job duties, applicable regulations, and health/safety policies and procedures) before they begin working, and within six months of employment a teacher/caregiver must obtain six clock hours of training in child growth and development and early childhood education (or remain under direct supervision); no fixed pre-service clock-hour count is otherwise set, and registered family child care homes have no separately specified pre-service training-hour requirement (S.C. Reg. 114-503.K.(4) & K.(5)(a), eff. June 22, 2018).
Annual: In South Carolina child care centers, directors must complete at least 20 clock hours of training annually and all direct-care staff at least 15 clock hours annually (first aid and CPR not counted), per S.C. Reg. 114-503.K.(5)(b)-(c), eff. June 22, 2018; registered family child care home operators, staff, and household members must complete at least 10 clock hours of training each year (SC DSS scchildcare.org Registered Family Child Care Home requirements).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published South Dakota administrative code. Contact your South Dakota licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Each provider of family day care counted in staff-child ratios shall complete 6 hours of annual training, and each director and provider of center and school-age programs counted in staff-child ratios shall complete 10 hours of annual training (orientation training hours count as annual training in the year completed), per ARSD 67:42:17:18; per the DSS handbook, providers in summer-only programs and regular substitutes complete 4 hours, while occasional substitutes need only maintain current pediatric CPR and Advanced Level II health-and-safety training.
Pre-service: Before unsupervised contact with children, all new child care employees in Tennessee must complete shaken-baby-syndrome/abusive-head-trauma training and Department-recognized pre-service training covering all federally required components, and a family/group child care home primary educator must complete a child care agency orientation session during the pre-licensure period (along with Small Business Academy and Licensing Rules and Regulations training) before a license is issued (Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1240-04-01-.06).
Annual: Annual continuing-education clock hours required by rule are: child care center educators 12 hours; center directors at least 24 hours; family/group child care home primary educators 18 hours; and other family/group home educators 12 hours, with at least 6 of those hours in health and safety and at least 3 hours in pre-literacy/literacy skills each year, plus Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) training every five (5) years (Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1240-04-01-.06).
Pre-service: Texas child-care-center employees, caregivers, and directors must complete pre-service training before being counted in ratio or having unsupervised access to children, with the required clock hours set out in the chart at 26 TAC Sec. 746.1301 and the mandatory pre-service topics specified in 26 TAC Sec. 746.1305; the commonly cited '8 hours' pre-service figure appears in that 746.1301 chart, which is published as an image and could not be extracted as quotable .gov text. (26 TAC Sec. 746.1301; Sec. 746.1305)
Annual: A caregiver at a Texas licensed child-care center must obtain at least 24 clock hours of annual training relevant to the ages of the children served (26 TAC Sec. 746.1309), and a primary caregiver in a licensed or registered child-care home must obtain at least 30 clock hours of training each year relevant to the ages served (26 TAC Sec. 747.1309). (26 TAC Sec. 746.1309; Sec. 747.1309)
Pre-service: Utah requires a 2-1/2 hour (2.5-hour) pre-service training offered by the Office of Licensing before a caregiver becomes involved with child care, for both family child care homes and centers (Utah Admin. Code R430-90-7 [Licensed Family Child Care] and R381-100-7 [Child Care Centers]).
Annual: Caregivers must complete at least 20 hours of child care training each year based on the facility's license date, prorated to at least 1-1/2 hours per month for staff hired partway through the licensing year; in family child care homes at least half of the required annual training must be interactive (i.e., at least 10 of the 20 hours) (Utah Admin. Code R430-90-7 and R381-100-7).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Vermont administrative code. Contact your Vermont licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: All staff, with the exception of substitutes, shall complete fifteen (15) clock hours of annual professional development activities each 365 days within the three-year license period (Vermont Family Child Care Home Licensing Regulations § 7.4.4; Center Based regs § 7.4.4).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Virginia administrative code. Contact your Virginia licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Virginia child day center staff must complete annually a minimum of 16 hours of training appropriate to the age of children in care, in addition to orientation requirements (8VAC20-780-245, Ongoing training).
Pre-service: Early learning providers must complete Child Care Basics (the initial "30-hour STARS" course, per DCYF's training guidance) prior to being granted a license, prior to working unsupervised with children, or within three months of the date of hire, and the course content meets the federally required (CCDF) health and safety topics (WAC 110-300-0106).
Annual: An early learning provider must complete ten (10) hours of annual in-service training after twelve months of cumulative employment (WAC 110-300-0107(1)).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published West Virginia administrative code. Contact your West Virginia licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Annual continuing-education clock hours vary by setting: family child care home caregivers must complete eight (8) hours of approved training annually covering at least two Core Knowledge/Core Competency areas (78 CSR 19 §6.3.b); family child care facility staff must complete at least twelve (12) clock hours of approved training annually and the facility operator at least fifteen (15) clock hours annually (78 CSR 18 §15.1.k–l and §14.1.a.5); child care center qualified staff must complete fifteen (15) hours of approved training within the first year of employment and thereafter complete the training needed to keep their WV STARS credential current (78 CSR 1 §8.7.a and §8.7.c).
Pre-service: Before licensure or working with children, a family child care provider must complete an approved entry-level early childhood education course (3 credits or a department-approved non-credit course, the Registry Family Child Care Credential, or a Child Development Associate credential) and department-approved shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma training before working with children under 5; a department-approved infant/child CPR-AED certificate must be obtained within 3 months of licensure or hire, and at least 10 hours of department-approved infant and toddler care training within 6 months of caring for children under age 2 (Wis. Admin. Code DCF 250.05(3)(b), (e), (f), (g)).
Annual: Each licensee and provider must satisfactorily complete at least 15 hours of qualifying continuing education annually (Wis. Admin. Code DCF 250.05(4)(c)1.).
Pre-service: A specific clock-hour figure could not be confirmed from a published Wyoming administrative code. Contact your Wyoming licensing office to confirm the current pre-service and annual training-hour requirements before you enroll staff.
Annual: Wyoming requires any person who provides direct care or is counted in staff:child ratios for more than 24 hours in any month to complete a minimum of 12 training credits annually in early learning/early childhood/child development, of which 8 health-and-safety credits must be taken every two years (WY Child Care Licensing Rules, Chapter 11, Section 4(c), effective April 2026). NOTE: the draft's '30 hours per biennium, 15 in the first year' reflects the superseded 2014 rules; the current annual requirement is 12 credits per year.