LEARN ABOUT VERIFIERS

Qualifications
NECPA Verifiers receive endorsement by the NECPA Commission. To be eligible for endorsement, an individual must possess at least 1) a high school diploma and 2) three years experience directing an early childhood program serving children ages birth through eight years.

While the NECPA Commission prefers for Verifiers to hold college/university degrees in Early Childhood Education, other acceptable qualifications are:

  • A CCP Early Childhood Education Specialist or CDA Child Development Associate credential.

  • At least three years’ experience as a teacher working with children in a child care/early childhood education setting.

  • An Education Coordinator or equivalent with three years of experience.

  • An individual holding an Associate degree in early childhood education, psychology, child development, home economics, nursing, social work, or other related field from an accredited college or university.

  • In addition to these educational qualifications, the Verifier candidate must satisfactorily complete the NECPA Commission-sponsored Verifier training, submit an application on the appropriate forms, and obtain three letters of recommendation from persons who are aware of the candidate’s personal and professional abilities.
    
     
   

Responsibilities

  1. Verifiers are the individuals who collect all information from programs seeking accreditation. Verifiers do not make the accreditation decision but ascertain if the data reported in the NECPA instrument is accurate.

  2. Verifiers are assigned to review programs by the Commission. In most cases, Verifiers are required to work with an experienced Verifier on a visit before verifying a program on his/her own.

  3. Verifiers observe all components of a program in order to collect and verify all responses in the accreditation instrument.

  4. Verifiers review records and conduct interviews of staff and the director to verify all responses in the accreditation instrument.

  5. Verifiers collect all parent and staff surveys and a copy of the program’s license and submit these with the accreditation instrument to the NECPA Commission for scoring.

  6. Verifiers are privy to sensitive and confidential information about the programs they verify. Verifiers must agree to keep any information they obtain through the verification process strictly confidential.

  7. Verifiers must disclose prior to verifying any program any potential conflict ofinterest or any relationship with the program that could be construed as preventing a fair and impartial verification.
  
           
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