CPR/First Aid Requirement – pg.32 A. All staff who work directly with children shall have within 30 days of the date of employment CPR & First Aid (F/A) Certification.

VCCA Request: As stated in the CCDBG guidelines all staff shall be “trained” in CPR & F/A.  We support 100% of staff to be “trained” and for 50% of all staff to be certified. The NAEYC requirement is 50% certification.

This allows one teacher to perform CPR and/or FA and the other teacher to care for the children. We're also requesting a 90 day, rather than a 30 day, grace period for new staff requiring certification. With these requested changes, this is a significant improvement over the current requirement of one staff to be CPR/certified.

The Economic Impact Analysis from the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget estimates that "licensees will incur costs likely to equal hundreds of thousands of dollars, and may stretch to several million dollars, initially and then will be a like amount every two years. These costs will also be increased because the turnover rate for child care workers would indicate that approximately 30% of trained staff will likely leave their employment each year. Given that these proposed changes are not driven by identifed deficiencies that might affect the health or safety of children in care the costs of these changes likely far outweigh the convenience of having one standard for all licensees." The CCDBG requires requires only subsidy providers to be CPR/First Aid be trained, not all providers. VCCA supports 100% trained & 50% of staff certified. Thank you.