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State Training And Registry System (STARS)
The State Training and Registry System (STARS) offers initial and ongoing child care training linked to the state's minimum licensing requirements. The Washington Associaton for the Education of Young Children (WAEYC) administers the training program that provided training scholarships to 6,418 child care providers in 2007.
STARS is a career development system designed to improve child care through basic and ongoing training for child care providers. The Department of Early Learning (DEL) administers the STARS Registry, a web-based database that tracks provider records.
WAEYC is contracted to oversee other parts of the program, including training and the scholarship program.
Newly licensed child care providers must take the 20-hour basic training course within the first six months of licensure. Ten hours of ongoing training are required each year.