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Welcome to the Minnesota Center for Professional Development Registry!
The Registry can be used to track your training, education, and employment in the field of early childhood and school‐age care. By participating in the Registry, you will receive a Career Lattice certificate and a learning record as recognition of your achievements. Combined data from the Registry will be used to inform decision makers about the early childhood and school-age care workforce in Minnesota. The Registry also contains a database of approved statewide trainers and training events. Click on Search All Events to access information about professional development opportunities across the state.
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Please enter your user ID/Email Address and password in the Sign In box.
Don't Have an Account?
Sign up now to activate your online application. You will be asked to enter your email address and a password will be sent to your email account. Click on one of the following options in the Don't have an account? box:
- Practitioner if you work directly with children and youth in an early childhood or school-age care setting. This includes family child care providers, center-based staff, family, friend and neighbor caregivers, Parent Aware, Building Quality participants or a grant recipient. To obtain a career lattice step and a learning record please fill out the practitioner application.
- Trainer if you provide training, education, coaching, mentoring, consulting, or technical assistance to direct care providers.
- Training Sponsor Organization if you represent a training sponsor organization and you want to advertise training events in the search function on the Registry and have training approved by the Minnesota Center for Professional Development. Only approved training can be used by practitioners to climb the Career Lattice.
- Direct Care Center/Program if you own or manage a care center with more than one practitioner.
Practitioner Documentation
In order for your application to be complete, all education, credential, and training information must be verified by the Registry staff. Please gather the following information before you start the application:
- Your employment history in the field of early childhood education or school-age care.
- Certificates from Early Childhood Education/School-age Care training you have attended in the past two years.
- Credentials related to Early Childhood Education/School-age Care that you have earned.
- Transcripts from colleges and universities. Official Transcripts should be mailed to the registry.
- Professional association membership card or other documentation (if applicable).
Career Lattice
When you enroll in the Registry, you are assigned to a Career Lattice Step based on the information you provide. There are 12 steps on the Career Lattice, each step recognizes the achievement of a specified number of training hours, credentials, certificates, college credits, and degrees earned. As you advance on the Career Lattice, you complete training in the eight Minnesota Practitioner's Core Competency content areas to develop the knowledge and skills you need to provide quality care and education for the children and families you serve.
Who Can Apply?
The Registry is open to anyone who educates and cares for the children and youth in Minnesota including family child care providers, center‐based staff, and Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) caregivers or legally unlicensed child care providers. However, to be eligible for a placement above the Foundational Awareness Step, you must be 18 years old, have completed a high school diploma or GED. Direct care providers are encouraged to have current training in CPR and First Aid.
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