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Discipline 1 & 2 as well as Separation & Loss are the 3 required courses. Each one is 3 hours in length, giving you 9 hours of training. FAFS offers additional training classes, worth 2 hours each. jerzee is right the new requirements are now 15 hours a year effective 7/1/06. That's a big change from before as training cycles are now 1 year instead of 2.

The most difficult hours to get in are the 3 required courses as they're never offered on a weekend or even friday night. They're during the day or evenings 6-9pm. My DH has had a tough time squeezing them into his schedule.

We have our liscence renewal coming up and our family resource worker is coming out today to give me all the paperwork we now have to fill in annually. Another new policy is that resource families ahve to release their medical records to DYFS at the time of liscence renewal.

Last week I received the new Manual of Requirements for Resource Families. We also have to have carbon monoxide detectors in our home. They also now prohibit smoking inside a resource home.