Provider agencies
Organizations in Maine that hold responsibility for intellectual and developmental disability services and need a repeatable way to train the people who deliver them.
Intellectual and developmental disability training
Training built for Maine IDD provider programs
Maine IDD is the front door for agencies and programs that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Maine. It is not a job board and it is not the site for direct support professional hiring. Tell us about the program and we will walk you through new-hire and refresher training.
Program managers
People who assign training inside a program, follow who finished it, and need a record they can show when someone asks how staff were prepared.
Support teams
Staff who work inside an I/DD program and need practical training they can finish around a shift, without this site pretending to be their employer.
Who this site is for
Use Maine IDD if you run a program that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Maine. Directors and program managers start here when they want a walkthrough before they pick courses.
If you are hiring or orienting direct support professionals as a role, and you are not asking about the I/DD program around them, start on the Maine DSP site instead. The two sites stay separate so the same phrase is not competing on both domains.
What a pilot looks like
You send the form. Someone from Your Training Provider follows up and looks at the public course catalog with you. You choose a small group, see what new-hire and refresher topics match the roles in that program, and decide whether to go further.
The form does not create accounts, assign courses, or bill anyone. It also does not tell you what Maine DHHS requires. Those requirements stay with the department, your waiver, and your own policies.
What programs ask about first
Program orientation for new staff
A starting path for people who are new to a Maine agency’s intellectual and developmental disability program. The walkthrough maps this to the roles you actually hire, rather than a generic course list.
Person-centered daily support
Training aimed at ordinary routines inside a program: choice, dignity, and how staff support a person across a day. This page does not quote a Maine regulation or claim a curriculum is approved.
Notes the program can use later
How teams document support, changes, and incidents so a program manager can read the record later. Completion tracking is something agencies ask Your Training Provider about during a walkthrough. It is not turned on by this form.
Refresher training for the program
A way to bring existing employees back through the topics your agency still expects each year, scoped to the I/DD program rather than to a statewide DSP hiring campaign.
Read the topics on the training page, or see the broader I/DD training at Your Training Provider.
01
Tell us about the program
Agency name, the kind of I/DD service you run in Maine, about how many people you train, and what you need first.
02
Walk through the catalog
We use the Your Training Provider course catalog to map new-hire and refresher topics to your program’s roles. The catalog is the destination, not a promise that every course fits Maine.
03
Start with a pilot group
Roll training out to a small group inside one program before you assign it across the agency. A pilot does not enroll the rest of the staff and it does not start billing.