A suggested change to 22 VAC 40-211-60.D is as follows, "Providers are considered fully approved if they meet all the other requirements for approval of this section and is enrolled in pre-service training.  The provider's approval shall be revoked if the provider does not complete the training in which he/she is currently enrolled."

The way the standard is currently written would allow a person to be approved even if he/she does not complete the training he/she is enrolled in as long as he/she signs a form stating the he/she would complete the next one offered.  If the "next pre-service training available" is a year later (a possibility in some localities), then that means a person could be "approved" for over a year without having been fully trained.  Having just been approved in 2006 by a Child Placing Agency as a resource/foster/adoptive parent and currently having a child in my home waiting to be adopted, I do NOT think it is a good idea to have a person approved unless they are currently enrolled in a pre-service training AND complete the training he/she is currently enrolled in.