Care Courses Blog

If you’ve come across this blog it’s prob­a­bly because you are search­ing for pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment cours­es that sat­is­fy Michi­gan child­care train­ing and fos­ter par­ent train­ing requirements.

At Care Cours­es we offer dis­tance learn­ing course that can be done ful­ly online or in a hybrid online and book format.

Michigan DHS and CDA Child Care Training

So… What can Care Cours­es do for a child care provider in Michigan? 

The Michi­gan Depart­ment of Human Ser­vices accepts all Care Cours­es toward their year­ly train­ing, pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment require­ments. Which means that in Michi­gan you can use Care Cours­es for your 16 hours of annu­al DHS child care train­ing if you’re in a child­care cen­ter, fam­i­ly child care, or group child care. 

Look­ing to get a CDA cre­den­tial? The Coun­cil for Pro­fes­sion­al recog­ni­tion accepts Care Cours­es for the train­ing require­ment for the CDA nation­al cre­den­tial­ing process. Use our cours­es to get train­ing for a CDA cre­den­tial and to renew a CDA.

Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease Training

Addi­tion­al­ly, we offer train­ing on pre­ven­tion and con­trol of infec­tious dis­ease train­ing, includ­ing immu­niza­tions, take either Man­ag­ing Health and Safe­ty in Child Care or San­i­ta­tion for Dis­ease Pre­ven­tion in Ear­ly Child­hood Pro­grams.

Michigan Shaken Baby Syndrome Training

If you are a pro­gram direc­tor, care­giv­er in a child­care cen­ter, or an assis­tant care­giv­er in either a child care or a group home and need a course on safe sleep and shak­en baby syn­drome, check out our 3‑clock-hour course, Keep­ing Infants Safe.

Lead Caregiver Qualification Training and Lead Caregiver for Infants and Toddlers

We also have course bun­dles for Lead Care­giv­er Qual­i­fi­ca­tion Train­ing, and Lead Care­giv­er for Infants and Tod­dlers Train­ing.

Michigan Registry (MiRegistry) Training

The Michi­gan Reg­istry (MiReg­istry) has approved all Care Cours­es toward Great Start to Qual­i­ty. All of our cours­es may be used towards STARS orga­ni­za­tion rating. 

Do you need MiReg­istry child care train­ing cred­it? Please ensure that your Michi­gan Reg­istry ID num­ber is entered in your Care Cours­es account. Once you have added it, please email us at info@carecourses.com so that we can report your train­ing. Your train­ing will be report­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly after we have your reg­istry ID. 

Michigan Foster Parent Training

If you are a fos­ter par­ent in Michi­gan you may use our cours­es for your six hour annu­al train­ing require­ment. Speak with your agency licen­sor to have the topic/title approved.

If are not yet a licensed child care provider in Michi­gan, but want to become one, we rec­om­mend that you speak with a state licen­sor before pur­chas­ing any training. 

Con­tact licensing:

Michi­gan Depart­ment of Licens­ing and Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs  Child Care Licens­ing Divi­sion Phone: (866)-685‑0006

Care Courses Support

Please let us know how we can be of addi­tion­al assis­tance! Call us: 1–800-685‑7610, Mon­day through Fri­day, 9–5 ET, or email us days, evenings and week­ends: info@CareCourses.com. We’re here to help!