If you do not have at least six months prior experience in a regulated child-care center (or documentation to prove that you have the equivalent in child-care training), you must have eight clock hours of "pre-service training" before you can begin work. Also, if you plan on providing care for children younger than 24 months, this pre-service training must include at least one hour of training on "the shaken baby syndrome,"

Directors of licensed child-care centers must have 20 clock hours of annual training. Ten (10 hrs) of these required hours may be obtained from self-instructional materials (such as our online courses)

Care-givers at a child-care center must have 15 clock hours of annual training. Half of the required hours (7.5 hrs) may be obtained from self-instructional materials.

If you are the primary care-giver for children kept in your home, you must have 20 clock hours of training each year. Sixteen (16) of those hours may be obtained through self-instructional materials.

Assistant or substitute care-givers in a home must have 15 clock hours of annual training. Twelve (12) of these hours may be received through completion of a self-instructional course.