A well-designed career lattice should help to define compensation levels for different roles, training, and experience. A field ensures quality standards for its training and trainers by utilizing a training approval system. In practice, this has meant that states or communities have created written and published guidelines for the content and design of training. States have also created Trainer Registries to enable groups that are planning training to identify which individuals have been approved as trainers. Other states have mandated that only training offered by an approved trainer will be accepted by their career development systems, and, in some cases, will meet state licensing requirements for training.
Registries provide essential documentation and recognition for members of the field.
The Registry may be operated by any government or community organization that can handle the task effectively for the field. A growing number of states are creating special credentials or other forms of recognition to mark the completion of specific amounts of training, or to acknowledge that an individual is qualified to be employed in a specific role. States and communities have also started out with smaller scale approaches to a Registry. In Oklahoma and Washington, career development planning groups distributed booklets identifying core knowledge areas and training requirements or recommendations in each area for people in different roles. This strategy enabled practitioners to understand the range of knowledge they need and to make more useful and less repetitious choices from the available training offerings.