Infant-Toddler CDA Renewal Checklist

Please feel free to use this handy checklist to keep track of your completed steps as you

prepare and apply for your CDA renewal:

Preparing for your CDA Renewal

 Complete professional educaon training courses or connuing educaon (4.5 CEUs, a 3

credit-hour course or 45 clock hours).

 Achieve First Aid and Infant/Child (Pediatric) CPR cercaon.

 Work with young children ages birth-36 months (80 hours minimum within the past

year).

 Choose an ECE professional to write your recommendaon.

 Join or renew your membership in a naonal or local ECE professional organizaon.

Applying & Demonstrang for your CDA Renewal

 A. Finalize your ECE Reviewer Recommendaon.

If applying online: Ask your ECE Reviewer for his/her email address. You will be

prompted by the online applicaon system to send the ECE Reviewer recommendaon

request.

If applying on paper: Ask your ECE Reviewer to complete Secon D of your CDA

Renewal Applicaon and the Recommendaon Form on page 19. Your ECE Reviewer

may also choose to type a leer of recommendaon for you to aach with your renewal

applicaon. (Note: Please see the Recommendaon Form in the Early Childhood

Educaon Reviewer secon for complete instrucons.)

 B. Make a copy and submit your professional educaon training documentaon

(transcript, leer or Training Vericaon Form)

 C. Make a copy of your current First Aid and Infant/Child (Pediatric) CPR cercaon.

 D. Make a copy of your proof of membership in a naonal or local ECE associaon.

If applying online: Once you have uploaded your documents to the YourCDA online

applicaon, submit the $125 payment step of the online applicaon process, this will

transmit your applicaon to the Council for review.

If applying on paper: Mail the above documents, A-D, along with your credit card

informaon, check or money order for $150, payable to the Council for Professional

Recognion.

**All documents including payment (includes scholarships, vouchers, agency checks) should

be mailed together.

MAIL TO: Council for Professional Recognion

2460 16th Street NW

Washington, DC 20009