Connecticut plans to train your caregivers for free. The records are still yours.
The Department of Consumer Protection says it plans a free state training portal that issues the certificate to the caregiver - with no employer dashboard and no state validation. Getting that certificate back, filed against the right person, before the clock runs out, stays with your agency. Every hire, every year.
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DCP's stated plan: free training, certificate issued to the caregiver.
Has to remember to send it to you. No employer view is planned.
You hold the license. You chase the paper. You sign the annual attestation to DCP.
Free training is not 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.
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Assumes the 8 paid initial hours in PA 26-50 §1(a)(1)(A). Approved-list program lengths are not published, so renewal time is not priced here. 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 DCP to publish an approved program list by October 1, 2026, requires 8 paid initial hours within 90 days of hire, and makes prior training portable for three years with the completion form.
A free portal, with no employer view
DCP's stated plan: training at no cost, the certificate issued to the caregiver, no state tracking or validation for employers. A stated plan, not adopted regulation - it can change.
Existing staff, forms, LMS path
Whether current caregivers must complete initial training, the prescribed §1(c) form format, and whether existing training vendors can be approved - all open until the list drops. We publish changes as they land.
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 when your annual attestation comes due.
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 the state portal when it launches. 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.
Setup: $299 one time. Founding agencies get 20% off year one. Set-up help included: send us your certificates and we load the first batch.
“What if DCP builds employer tracking later?”
Nothing like it exists in DCP's stated plan today. If it ever ships, the plan as described would cover training taken through the state portal and nothing else - not your in-house training, not CPR, not a certificate from another state, not the caregiver who trained at their last agency. Those all still 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.
Pick whatever is easiest
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Companza LLC · Not affiliated with the State of Connecticut or the Department of Consumer Protection. Statements about DCP's plans reflect DCP's public statements and 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.