Child Passenger Safety Certification?

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #1

Is it like three days of theory work and then a seat check on the fourth day or something? Is there a test at the end of the course and what kind of questions are on there if there is. Also, what do you have to do to pass? Is it just take the test or something? Just curious. TY!

 

skaterbabs

Well-known member

• May 10, 2007

• #2

When I took my class it was three days of instruction. On the fourth day we had our test and the class inspection event. However, as of June 1 the curriculum is changing, so I have no idea what it will be like.

 

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #3

on June 1st? I thought it was after the end of June? Is there any info on this?

 

skaterbabs

Well-known member

• May 10, 2007

• #4

According to what we've been told, the new curriculum rolls out June 1, any class starting that date or later will use the new curriculum.

 

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #5

Oh you're right I found it here: http://www.cpsboard.org/documents/Lifesavers07_StateCoordMeeting.pdf

I wonder what changes will be made. Any Instructors or other Technicians have any idea how it's different to the older one?

 

oxeye

New member

• May 10, 2007

• #6

CRS said:

Oh you're right I found it here: http://www.cpsboard.org/documents/Lifesavers07_StateCoordMeeting.pdf

I wonder what changes will be made. Any Instructors or other Technicians have any idea how it's different to the older one?

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I don't know exactly how it is different but the lady I talked to today said that it will be much shorter. She said it should be able to be taught in two days now.

 

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #7

oxeye said:

I don't know exactly how it is different but the lady I talked to today said that it will be much shorter. She said it should be able to be taught in two days now.

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I looked on here: http://www.safekids.org/CERTIFICATION/about.html and had a look at random courses that start in June or aftewards and they all seemed to be three days with the seatcheck on the last day.

 

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rlsadc

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #8

my class is in july and only 3 days...

 

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #9

How long does the certificate last till you have to recertify?

 

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rlsadc

Senior Community Member

• May 10, 2007

• #10

CRS said:

How long does the certificate last till you have to recertify?

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2 years...

 

skaterbabs

Well-known member

• May 10, 2007

• #11

Two years, but you should start gathering what you need to recertify much sooner than that. You can do your seatchecks at any time after your initial cetrification. You may need to come back to the states or find an instructor to check then off for you (check US military bases, or contact Safe Kids to determine how you'll be able to do that, because without the ability to check your seats checked of for recertification this may be a waste of your time and money since almost everything you'll learn in class you'll pretty much already know from here.)

 

CRS

Senior Community Member

• May 12, 2007

• #12

bump,, can any instructors chime in?

 

skaterbabs

Well-known member

• May 12, 2007

• #13

On the flip side, it just occurred to me that if you can make it to KIM (http://www.kidzinmotion.org/) or Lifesavers (http://lifesaversconference.org/) at any point during your certification there are usually instructors there willing to check off seats AND you can get all (or most of) your CEUs at the same time.

 

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Kellyr2

New member

• May 12, 2007

• #14

Ooh, 2-3 days? Hmm, maybe I could pull off one this fall then. Dh could take 2-3 days off much easier than 5. Off to check the safekids site to see when our next one is!

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eta - none this summer, but the latest one shown is August, so maybe fayetteville will get a fall one? I've found that Xander does suprisingly well during the day without me.