Hours: 10 hours
Cost: Free
Description: The Health, Safety, and Child Growth and Development/Mandated Reporting: Basic Requirements for Licensing combines all CCDBG-required health and safety topics as well as mandated reporting for child abuse and neglect into one training session. Participants will no longer need to register for two different training sessions. The Health, Safety, and Child Growth and Development/Mandated Reporting: Basic Requirements for Licensing is required to be completed once. This is foundational and provides basic information on health and safety. You are encouraged to take progressive training that will provide information that builds on this basic knowledge of health and safety and enhances your own professional development.
Covered topics include:
- building and physical premises safety
- transportation safety
- handling and storage of hazardous materials
- emergency preparedness
- prevention and control of infectious disease
- food and allergic reactions and how to respond
- administration of medication
- shaken baby syndrome and abusive head trauma
- safe sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SUIDS) prevention
- basic child development information
- child abuse and neglect
- discipline
- mandated reporting
- child maltreatment
Course content included in the Health, Safety, and Child Growth and Development/Mandated Reporting: Basic Requirements for Licensing Course was updated in April 2024. If you completed this course prior to April 2, 2024, you do not need to take this training again, but please review the following document for a overview of the updates: English | En Español
If you have not yet taken this training, log in to your NJCCIS account and navigate to the Registry dropdown and click on “Find Professional Development & Training Classes” and then search by the Event ID.
UPDATED EVENT IDs
English Event ID: 140948
Spanish Event ID: 140950
In addition to the online training, this training is also available through your CCR&R either in person or “live” virtually. Look for your CCR&Rs agency name in the Training Agency dropdown on the “Find Professional Development & Training Classes” page. If you take the training through your CCR&R, the class may still be offered as two separate courses - "Health, Safety and Child Growth and Development: Basic Requirement for Licensing" and "Identifying Child Abuse and Neglect: Mandated Reporting in Early Childhood Education".