About This Site

Caregiver Training Reference is a small reference site about entry-level caregiving training in the United States. Its core subject is the certified nursing assistant path — how state certification works, what training covers, how to compare programs and estimate costs — together with the maternal-infant side of caregiver education, which reflects this site's long-standing subject matter.

It is written for people deciding whether and where to train: career changers, students, and family caregivers considering formal work.

Two honest notes about how the site is written. First, nurse aide requirements are set individually by each state, so this site avoids quoting training hours, fees, or exam rules as if they were national facts; the authoritative numbers are the ones published by your state's nurse aide registry and by the programs themselves, and the pages here tell you where to look rather than guessing on your behalf. Second, where pages touch on infant feeding, they describe the field and its reference literature — federal resources such as the Office on Women's Health and USDA WIC, and clinical bodies such as the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine — and they cite those sources for what those sources actually say. Everything here is reviewed reference material, not professional, medical, or career advice. Decisions about care belong with qualified professionals.