Clarification on Mandated Reporter Training Requirements

11/11/2026

Please refer to the important dates below to determine if you are up-to-date on your Mandated Reporter certification.

ANY completion of the Mandated Reporter trainingBEFORE 9/01/2025 would NOT have met the upcoming 11/17/2026 compliance deadline.

Where as:

• Anyone who has completed the Addendum - whether they did so in 2025 or 2026 - has met the 11/17/2026 compliance, and has no need to take any further Mandated Reporter training at the present time.
• Anyone who completed the full 3 hour MR training after 8/31/2025 has also met that deadline, and has no need to take any further MR training at this time (as the training after that date included the IDD training content found in the Addendum).

Below is additional information regarding the Addendum and the expanded FULL training deliveries which were released beginning on 9/01/2025.

Anyone who has completed either of those deliveries has met the upcoming 11/17/2026 compliance deadline.

The previous delivery of the Mandated Reporter training ended on 8/31/2025.

Additional required training content needed to be added to this training*.

The updated delivery with this additional required training content was released on 9/01/2025.

*In response to recent legislation to Social Services Law sections 413(6), Chapter 646 of the Laws of 2023, you are now required to complete additional training on identifying indicators of abuse and maltreatment in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to be in full compliance. All mandated reporters must complete this training by 11/17/2026.

However, there was also a release of a shorter Addendum training with just the added material for those trainees who have already completed the new, revised version.

Meaning anyone who completed the training between 11/01/2022 and 08/31/2025 would only have to take the addendum version after it became available on 9/01/2025.

We created this short addendum on this additional required topic, in an effort to streamline the process for being in full compliance.

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