Minnesota Homes

If you are a Minnesota child care provider who works in your home, this page is for you!  (Day care centers are not subject to these same restrictions).

For Minnesota childcare providers who work in their HOMES:

Your county licensing agency decides whether correspondence courses may be used for your annual training requirements. If you do not know if correspondence courses may be used in your area, please contact your own county licensor to determine whether correspondence courses may be used in your county to meet the ongoing training requirement in the family child care licensing rules.

          Following are a list of counties we have heard from:

Aitkin
Anoka (Prior approval from your county licensor is encouraged)
Becker
Benton (every 3 years, CC providers may use our courses for training)
Big Stone
Brown
Carver (Some, but not all, of your clock hours may come from correspondence courses.)
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago (will accept 2 hours only)
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood (Some, but not all, of your clock hours may come from correspondence courses.)
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas (on 11/2/05 - initially saying yes, still needs time to review)
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin (Some, but not all, of your clock hours may come from correspondence courses.)
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin (considering)
McLeod
Morrison (will accept 2 hours only)
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk (will accept 3 hours only)
Scott
Winona (considering)
Wright (will accept 3 hours only)
Yellow Medicine (will accept 3 hours only)

Other Counties - If you do not know if correspondence courses may be used in your county, please contact your own county licenser. Thanks!!

For Minnesota child care providers who work in a DAY CARE CENTER:

Our courses are accepted by the Minnesota Department of Human Services toward their Annual In-Service Training Requirement for day care staff and directors regardless of which county you are in.