Tracking Your Professional Development

One of the professional development features located within the Bright Futures Information System (BFIS) is the individual Online Resume, where professional development information can be tracked for you!

The Online Resume is located within your Quality and Credential Account.

Why track your professional development online?

• Go green and save paper! You can submit all of your professional development documentation to Northern Lights and ask Licensing, STARS administrators, CDD grantors, and Northern Lights to view your account when needed to verify eligibility for grants, credentials, points, etc.
• You can keep track of, view and print out a list of all of the training and workshops you have attended – anytime you need it!
• You can enter and easily update an electronic version of your Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP).
• Your online resume is at your fingertips wherever you work or live. Your account belongs to you.

How can you see your account?

Here is a handout that explains how to view or create a BFIS Quality and Credential Account.

• BFIS How-To Handout

If you use any of the other resources within BFIS as an E-Provider, your Quality and Credential Account can be accessed using your current BFIS User-name and Password.
Log in at the bottom of the BFIS Homepage where it says:

Child Care Worker/Credential User Login

If you are not an E-Provider, you can request that a Quality and Credential Account be created for you! Go to https://bfishelp.ahs.state.vt.us/ and click on “How Do I Sign Up?
Complete the form and submit. A BFIS user-name and password will be e-mailed to you within 48 hours, and you can log-in as a Credential User.

How does ongoing professional development get into BFIS?
There are 2 ways!

• If the training is posted in the BFIS Course Calendar, and the Sponsor of the event sends training attendance to the Vermont Northern Lights Career Development Center, we will verify and add the training information to your BFIS online resume.
• If the training is not listed in Course Calendar and/or the Sponsor will notbe sending in their training attendance, you can send a copy of your documentation of professional development form to Northern Lights, and we will verify and enter it into your BFIS online resume for you.  You can also enter your own training information, but we will need a copy of the documentation of professional development form, or certificate of attendance in order for it to show up as verified in your BFIS online resume.

There is very specific information that Northern Lights needs when you send in your own documents. In order for us to verify and enter professional development activities into your BFIS Quality and Credential Account, all information submitted should include a Document Verification Form. Use this form as a guide when reviewing the documents you are about to send. Attaching your documents to this form helps to ensure that the information we enter is accurate!

• Documentation Verification Form