Required Mandated Reporter training and certification for camp staff

December 21, 2016

Reminder that this coming summer all your staff and volunteers who work directly with campers need

to have completed the Mandated Reporter training course and be certified by the state. The two most

common ways of accomplishing this are:

1. Have each person individually take the course online and at the conclusion of the training, pass

a test: if they fail the test they can immediately retake the test for as long as it takes to pass

it. Here is a link to the course and test.

http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/ocfs/ec/occhs/documents/MandatedReporterOnlineAUG2016.pdf

2. Or you can make the necessary arrangements with a state volunteer Mandated Reporter

Trainer to come to your camp and do a two-hour workshop for your staff (free). At the end of

the workshop, all attendees are certified by a stroke of the pen – no test needs to be

taken. Here is a link to the Mandated Reporter Trainer

List. http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/ocfs/cps/trainer-contact.html

It is the camp’s responsibility to make sure that all of their staff are certified Mandated Reporters and

are recertified every FOUR years