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How can I reach Care
Courses?
Phone: 1-800-685-7610. fax:
703-448-5585. You can
reach us by mail at: P.O. Box 10526 McLean, Virginia 22102-8526 or by
email at
info@carecourses.com
What hours do you answer the phones?
Our phone number is 1-800-685-7610. Regular office hours are 8 AM
- 5 PM (Eastern Time), Monday-Friday. Please leave a message if you get our
voice mail so we can call back as soon as possible (please leave your phone
number and area code and speak slowly and clearly).
How long are these prices
effective? Until
February 1,
2009. We may add new courses, but we won’t change the
prices during this time.
May I use these courses towards my CDA or CCP
credential? Please click
here for more
information.
What is a CEU? "Continuing Education
Units" are required to renew a CDA. CEUs are determined by dividing the clock
hours by 10.
Are the courses accepted by the state for my annual clock hour
requirements? It depends on which state you are in.
Every state is different (and in Minnesota for family caregivers, every county
is different.) Please click
here for details.
How long before I get my order?
Depending on how you pay (phone, fax, internet, mail), what shipping&handling
you choose (Free Standard, Priority Handling, Express) and how far you live from Washington DC (we are located
in a suburb of DC), it normally takes from 2 days to 3 weeks. If you think an order has gotten lost in the mail, please call us. We
would never intentionally disappoint you. If you are in a hurry, please
call us and place a credit card order and ask for Rush handling which is a $11.00 charge on $200 or less.
How do the courses work?
You read
the course material, do Self Check exercises, and then complete and send in
Lesson Quizzes. You must make a passing score of at least 70% on each lesson to
receive the clock hours. We cannot issue partial clock hours for a course. We issue a certificate documenting the hours you have
earned and return it with your graded work. (You may redo the quizzes one time if you
score lower than 70%.)
How long do I have to complete my coursework?
As long as you need. We have no time limits
(although your state licensing agent may!) Once you send in your lessons it
normally takes up to 3 weeks for us to get them
graded. Please consider using our
Rush Grading options if you are in a hurry.
What is the Care Courses return policy?
Click here:
Return Policy
I don’t need 25 clock hours. Why do many of the courses offer
so many clock hours? We try to cover a topic in depth
each time we write a course. Sometimes this results in a longer course than
other times. That is one reason why the prices are about the same for all the
courses. We want everyone to be able to take the courses they are interested in
regardless of clock hours or cost. Don’t worry if you get more hours than you
need!
What are the benefits of online courses?
E-courses are ordered using our website which is
always open. courses are delivered immediately and you can get started with no
delay. Once a course is completed and you've printed your answer sheets and
enrollment form, these pages may be faxed to us for grading (book coursework
must be mailed through the US mail or UPS).
Click here to
see our E-courses.
Do you offer the courses in other languages besides English?
Yes, we offer courses in Spanish.
To have information sent to you, please
click here. To
see which courses are offered in Spanish, please
click here.
What does CARE stand for? It originally stood
for "Caregiver Annual Required Education." We now offer the courses to
foster parents and to child care providers who do not have annually required
clock hours (like those seeking a CDA), so we don't use that full name.
Remember when IBM stood for International Business Machines? Or
when KFC stood for Kentucky Fried Chicken? Both of those
companies only use their initials now. We are a lot smaller, but the
principle is the same!
Did we not list your questions?
Call us at 1-800-685-7610 (or 703-448-1800) and we will try
to help
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