Honest comparison
Care Wizard vs the Free TRAIN Florida Completion Report
The short answer
TRAIN Florida shows you who completed which TRAIN courses, free, from the official source — and for that job it is authoritative and we are not. What it cannot show you is everything that does not happen in TRAIN: classroom CPR, background screening, the annual driving-record pull, the FDLE database check, fire drills, extinguisher service, license renewals. That is most of a license.
This is the fairest challenge to our product, so it deserves a straight answer. APD's own learning system can generate a course completion status report. It is free, it is official, and for TRAIN courses it is more authoritative than we are — those records are the source, and ours are a copy of what you tell us.
The question is not whether it is good. It is what it can see.
Side by side
| The free TRAIN Florida report | Care Wizard | |
|---|---|---|
| TRAIN course completions | Authoritative — it IS the record. | A copy of what you log, unless you upload the certificate. |
| Cost | Free. | $25 a month per home. |
| Classroom CPR / First Aid | Not visible — 65G-2.008(7)(d) requires classroom, not online. | Tracked, with the expiry date. |
| Background screening and rescreening | Not visible. | Tracked, including the 90-day re-hire rule and the 5-year rescreen. |
| Annual driving-record pull | Not visible. | Tracked (65G-2.008(4)(b)2.). |
| Annual FDLE sex-offender check | Not visible. | Tracked per home (65G-2.008(4)(c)). |
| Fire drills, extinguishers, CEMP, license renewal | Not visible — none of it is training. | Tracked per home. |
| Telling you something is ABOUT to lapse | No. It reports what has happened. | Email and push reminders before the date. |
| Telling you the requirement changed | No. | Official sources re-read daily. |
What Care Wizard deliberately does not do
- · TRAIN Florida holds the authoritative record of a TRAIN completion. Care Wizard tracks the date and the certificate alongside everything TRAIN does not cover; if the two ever disagree, TRAIN is the source.
- · Care Wizard holds no client records at all, and covers Florida APD only.
When Care Wizard is
- · Most of a Florida APD license does not happen in TRAIN. Screening, classroom CPR, driving records, the FDLE check, and every facility record are invisible to it.
- · A report tells you what already happened. It cannot warn you about next month.
- · Per-person, per-home status in one view rather than a list you interpret.
- · The rule watch, which no report of completions can ever provide.
Common questions
Can TRAIN Florida track all my APD compliance requirements?
It tracks TRAIN course completions, which is authoritative for those courses. It cannot see requirements that happen elsewhere — classroom CPR, background screening, driving-record checks, the annual FDLE search, or any facility record such as fire drills or license renewals.
Is the TRAIN Florida completion report free?
Yes. APD can generate a course completion status report showing which TRAIN courses each staff member has completed, at no cost. For TRAIN courses it is the source of truth and should be trusted over any copy.
What Florida APD requirements are not in TRAIN Florida?
Background screening and the five-year rescreen, classroom CPR and first aid, the annual driving-record update, the annual FDLE offender-database check, and all facility records — fire drills, extinguisher service, CEMP review, inspections and license renewal.
Other comparisons
We compare against approaches rather than named products, because we have not used competitors' software and will not publish claims about it we cannot verify. Nothing here is legal advice.