Whatever training Connecticut offers, the records are still yours.
PA 26-50 requires 8 paid training hours per caregiver and records your agency can produce on demand. DCP published approved course lists and two completion forms on September 30, 2026. The published pages do not describe a state training portal or employer tracking system. Whatever training you use, getting the certificate, filing it against the right person, and producing it stays with your agency. Every hire, every year.
Free until January 1, 2027 - no credit card required. No setup fee.
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A state portal if DCP offers one (open, not confirmed), your LMS, or an in-house session.
The agency and employee sign DCP's completion form. The employee receives a copy.
You keep the agency copy and training records. You sign the annual attestation to DCP.
Even free training would not be a free compliance program. Somebody still has to collect every certificate, file it against the right caregiver, and produce it on demand - and under PA 26-50 that somebody is the agency.
What January 1 actually costs your agency
Three numbers you already know. The course may be free - the training hours are still paid hours, and that part is in the statute.
Assumes the 8 paid initial hours in PA 26-50 §1(a)(1)(A). DCP lists courses by topic, with some materials still "coming soon"; this calculator does not price annual continuing education. DCP's page and the statute text read the annual 8 hours differently (both readings). Portability works the other way: every hire who arrives with their §1(c) completion form from another agency - training within the last three years counts under §1(a)(2) - saves you the duplicate paid hours shown. Your numbers, your wage rate, our arithmetic - nothing is stored or sent.
What we know, and how well we know it
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Training is required, and it transfers
PA 26-50 requires 8 paid initial hours within 90 days of hire and makes qualifying prior initial training portable for three years with the completion form. DCP published approved initial and annual course lists on September 30, 2026.
A free state portal: not confirmed
The September 30 training pages do not describe a state training portal. Check DCP's HCA page and our implementation tracker. Do not budget as if training will be free - the 8 hours are paid either way.
Published forms; remaining questions
DCP published the initial and annual completion forms: both the agency and employee sign, the agency keeps a copy and gives one to the employee. The pages describe initial training for new employees and annual education for every employee; they do not expressly settle a separate initial-training requirement for existing staff or a vendor application process. Read the published update.
What Companza does
Runs the clock for you
Every hire starts a 90-day deadline, and every caregiver carries a two-year renewal cycle. One screen shows who is due, who is overdue, and who is clear - instead of a spreadsheet somebody forgets to open.
Takes the certificate off the caregiver's phone
Photograph it, attach it, confirm it belongs to that caregiver, done - about a minute, from a phone, no scanner. State portal, another state, an outside provider: same record.
Carries training in from the last agency
PA 26-50 makes initial training portable for three years. When a caregiver arrives with a completion form, you accept it instead of paying for eight hours they already sat through.
Produces the file in one click
Every caregiver, every certificate, every date, both signatures, with who filed each one and when - as a single export for your records file. Your annual attestation to DCP is your agency's agreement to follow the training law; the signed forms stay in your file.
What Companza does not do
You are going to hear a lot of claims this fall. Here is where ours stop.
We do not verify certificates
We did not watch the training and we cannot authenticate someone else's document. We record what was filed, by whom, and when - and every record says so on its face. That is what an auditor actually asks for.
We do not sell training
No courses, no catalogue, no reason to push you toward ours. Use a state portal if one is offered. Use your existing LMS. Use a nurse in a conference room. The record works the same.
We do not speak for DCP
Nothing on this page is a government notice or legal advice. We cite what we have read, date it, and mark what is still unsettled - see the implementation tracker for the item-by-item version.
Simple, agency-sized pricing
One price per agency, sized by how many active caregivers you run. No per-record fees, no per-feature upcharges. Hiring past your band is the only thing that moves the bill.
For the smallest agencies that still need a defensible record.
For small agencies getting their records in order ahead of the deadline.
For established agencies managing ongoing turnover and renewals.
For larger agencies that need one consistent record across the workforce.
Prices shown for annual prepay. Month-to-month is available at $95 / $179 / $359 / $599. Over 100 caregivers? Contact us and we will set you up.
No setup fee. Free until January 1, 2027, no credit card required. Set-up help included: send us your certificates and we load the first batch.
“What if DCP builds employer tracking later?”
We have not confirmed any DCP plan on this either way - see the tracker. What we can say: any state system covers what it covers. Your in-house training, CPR, a certificate from another state, the caregiver who trained at their last agency - those still need a home. They all land in one file here.
And if a state tool ever does the whole job for you, cancel. Month-to-month cancels any month; annual is one year at a time.
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Companza LLC · Not affiliated with the State of Connecticut or the Department of Consumer Protection. Anything about DCP's plans is marked open unless the tracker cites a dated public source, and it can change. This page is general information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. See the full PA 26-50 guide and the implementation tracker for sources.