National Standardized CPS Certification Training
  
updated 10-25-07

The National Standardized Child Passenger Safety Training Program was established in 1998. Child passenger safety (CPS) certification workshops are designed to teach individuals the technical and instructional skills needed to serve as child passenger safety resources for their organization, community or state.

The CPS Technician certification courses currently being taught in North Carolina are usually taught over four days. Certification courses combine classroom instruction, hands-on work with car seats and vehicles, and a community CPS checkup event where students demonstrate proper use and installation of child restraints and safety belts and then teach these skills to parents. Successful completion of this course certifies the individual as a CPS technician for two years.

National certification helps to enhance the credibility and professionalism of individual child passenger safety advocates and practitioners as well as the organizations and programs that employ or use the services of certified CPS Technicians. Documented CPS training and experience also can help reduce employer, program, and practitioner liability.

In an effort to maintain the highest level of training possible and to help assure that all CPS Technicians are trained following the standardized curriculum, only certified instructors and officially approved instructor candidates are allowed to teach the certification training class.

For more information on National CPS certification, visit www.cpsboard.org, the web site of the National Child Passenger Safety Board.

Refer to the NC CPS Training Schedule page for a schedule of North Carolina technician certification classes. Information on registering for these classes through the Safe Kids CPS Certification system can be found on the NC CPS Training Class Registration page.