The Nevada Registry is Nevada's early childhood workforce registry — the statewide system of career development and recognition for the people who work in the state's child care programs.
Nevada's licensing rules make membership part of the job: caregivers must become active members within 120 days of starting work, and directors must apply within 90 days and renew annually.
Here is who has to register, how to create a profile, and what the Career Ladder unlocks.
What is The Nevada Registry?
The Nevada Registry is the organization Nevada's own rules define as operating the statewide system of career development and recognition for the early childhood workforce (NAC 432A.143).
That definition includes a concrete job: approving and tracking informal training across the state.
It is Nevada's version of the workforce registries that most states keep under the federal CCDF framework.
The name and contact details are current as of our October 2026 research.
The Council for Professional Recognition — the body that awards the CDA — lists The Nevada Registry at www.nevadaregistry.org, with the phone number (775) 327-0674, and its October 2026 list of NWRA-approved state registries still included The Nevada Registry.
The federal floor is worth understanding before the state rule.
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) rule requires each state to describe a training and professional development framework that addresses workforce information, and workforce registries are how most states track it — but the federal rule does not require individual staff to join a registry.
Whether you must register is decided by Nevada's licensing rules, which is where we go next.
Who has to register in Nevada?
For caregivers, the rule is NAC 432A.306: a caregiver in a child care facility must be at least 16 years old and must become an active member of The Nevada Registry within 120 days after starting work — and keep that membership active.
It is a licensing standard, not an optional professional-development extra.
Directors are on a separate timeline.
Under NRS 432A.1773, a Nevada director must apply to The Nevada Registry within 90 days and renew annually — the same statute that sets Nevada's director qualification routes.
The rule text our research read extends the Registry requirement to family home and group home caregivers as well, though we could not fully verify that reading against the current rule text.
If you work in a home-based program, confirm your registration duty with the agency that licenses you.
One Nevada quirk decides who checks: a county or city with its own child care licensing agency and ordinance licenses facilities there instead of the state Division, under standards that must be no less restrictive than the state's (NRS 432A.131).
Registry membership is a licensing rule
How to create a Nevada Registry profile
Registration runs through the registry's own site, www.nevadaregistry.org; the published phone number is (775) 327-0674.
If you have been hired, the clock starts on your first day of work: caregivers have 120 days to become active members, and directors must apply within 90 days.
The registry's account-creation steps and document list are its own process, and our research does not document them line by line.
Start at the site, and call the registry if a step is unclear.
Have your education and training records handy — transcripts, certificates and any credentials you hold are what the profile exists to record.
Coming from another state?
Nevada's rule names one system: The Nevada Registry.
Membership in another state's registry is not the membership NAC 432A.306 requires — you create a Nevada profile.
Nevada Registry career levels and what they unlock
The registry places members on a Career Ladder according to the college credits or degrees they have earned — not years of service — and your level is reassessed each year at your annual renewal.
The career-ladder guidance on the registry's own site says administrators may use the levels to recruit staff and justify wage increases.
At centers rated Two Stars or higher, the ladder is structural rather than optional.
Nevada's QRIS, Silver State Stars, is administered by the Nevada Department of Education's Office of Early Learning and Development, and from Two Stars up its staff criterion requires all staff to be active on the Nevada Registry Career Ladder.
If your center is rated Two Stars or higher, your membership status is part of its rating.
Our research documents the ladder's basis and its annual reassessment, not the full scale of levels.
The registry's Career Ladder pages at www.nevadaregistry.org are the place to check the current levels and what each one requires.
Recording training hours in Nevada
Tracking training is a job Nevada's rules give the registry: the state's definition has it approving and tracking informal training statewide (NAC 432A.143), and the registry publishes a training calendar of Registry-approved training — in-person, virtual and online — that meets initial training requirements.
That tracking record matters because of a requirement you carry every year: Nevada child care employees and directors must complete 24 hours of training annually, at least 12 hours specific to the age group served and 2 on lifelong wellness, obesity, nutrition or physical activity (NRS 432A.1775), with no more than 3 of the hours in CPR.
Licensing rules also let annual hours be met through an early childhood course at a community college or university as well as informal training (NAC 432A.326).
Our guide to annual training hours puts requirements like Nevada's in a national context.
The record also travels.
The Council for Professional Recognition accepts workforce registry transcripts from all U.S. state and territory registries as part of the CDA credentialing process, so a current Nevada record can document the training behind a CDA application.
One boundary: registry membership does not satisfy the CDA renewal membership requirement — the Council's renewal guidance lists state registry membership among the memberships that do not count.
Using your registry ID when job hunting
Expect your Registry status to come up in hiring, because a Nevada director has compliance reasons to verify it: caregivers must be active members within 120 days of starting, and at centers rated Two Stars or higher under Silver State Stars, all staff must be active on the Career Ladder.
A profile that is current before you apply means the membership the rule asks for is already in place on day one.
Keep the habit after you are hired, too: check that new certificates and coursework actually appear in your profile, and look at your Career Ladder level at each renewal — administrators may use it to recruit, per the career-ladder guidance covered above.
Our page on Nevada teacher requirements walks through what the state asks of caregivers.
Ready to use it?
Browse childcare teacher jobs and check what each posting asks for against your Registry record.
Career and employer information, not licensing or legal advice — Nevada's Registry rules sit in NRS and NAC chapter 432A, administered by Child Care Licensing (CCL) in the Division of Social Services, Nevada Department of Human Services, or by your local licensing agency where one exists. Confirm the current rule with the agency that licenses your program.