North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 09 - CHILD CARE RULES
Section .1100 - CONTINUING EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Section 09 .1103 - ON-GOING TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

(a) After the first year of employment, the child care administrator and any staff who have responsibility for planning and supervising a child care center, and staff who work with children, shall participate in on-going training activities annually, as follows:

(b) Health and safety training shall be completed as part of on-going training so that every five years, all of the topic areas set forth in 10A NCAC 09.1102(b) will have been covered.

(c) Completion of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid training shall not be counted toward meeting annual on-going training requirements.

(d) Any staff working less than 40 hours per week may choose to complete on-going training requirements as outlined in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, or the training requirement may be prorated as follows:

(e) For purposes of this Rule, "regionally accredited" means a college or university accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies:

(f) For every three hours of countable technical assistance provided, one hour may be counted toward annual training requirements set forth in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, not to exceed 50 percent of the total required so long as:

(g) For purposes of this Section, "countable technical assistance" means technical assistance provided to administrative or caregiving staff members at a child care center by a person who has been endorsed by the NC Institute for Child Development Professionals as a technical assistance provider and shall include:

(h) A combination of college coursework, Continuing Education Units (CEU's), clock hours, or countable technical assistance shall be used to complete the requirements in Paragraph (a) of this Rule.