Home Health Assisting
Program Approval Process
Secondary and Adult educational programs that prepare students to work as Home Health Aides in New York State and that are operated by public schools and BOCES must be approved by the Education Department. Home Health Aides are considered “certified” in New York State by virtue of their successful completion of all requirements of a state-approved program. Program approval periods may be up to three years in length.
The Guide to
Home Health Aide Services (contains all of the information necessary
to submit an application for approval of a school-based Home Health
Aide program. This guide will assist schools to plan, organize and
provide programs for home health aides; facilitate the approval/re-approval
process and differentiate varied levels of home health care. The Guide is available in PDF.(
, 231 KB)
Home Health Aide Curriculum
In response to newly mandated Home Health Aide content implemented by the New York State Department of Health in 2006, the State Education Department convened a group of health occupations educators to do a crosswalk between this new content and the state-developed Home Health Aide curriculum.
Two supplements have been developed as required addenda to the New York State Home Health Aide Curriculum and the combined Nurse’s Assistant/Home Health Aide Curriculum. These are designed to be inserted into the current curriculum documents.
- Pages marked with page numbers followed by “A” should be inserted into the Home Health Aide Curriculum.
- Pages marked with page numbers followed by a “B” should be inserted into the Nurse’s Assistant/Home Health Aide Curriculum.
- Please note that there have been no changes in the instructional hours requirements for health occupations education programs.
Home Health Aide Supplement(12/06) (, 133KB)
Nurse’s Assistant/ Home Health
Supplement(12/06) (, 128 KB)
The original Home Health Aide Curriculum and combined Nurse’s Assistant/Home Health Aide Curriculum is available through the SED publications department at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/pub/catalog.pdf or 518-474-3806