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 hub for Maine intellectual and developmental disability programs: waiver services, DSP training requirements, and a walkthrough for agencies that need to train a team.
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, on any device.
Who this site is for
Use Maine IDD if you run a program that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Maine. Waiver pages, DSP training requirements, and the notes that used to live on the Maine DSP site are all here.
Directors and program managers can request one walkthrough when they want help matching catalog courses to the roles in a program.
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.
Starting small keeps the decision easy: you see real completions from your own staff before you commit the whole agency.
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 built around ordinary routines inside a program: choice, dignity, and how staff support a person across a day.
Notes the program can use later
How teams document support, changes, and incidents so a program manager can read the record later. Every completion can be tracked per employee, so you can show who finished what when someone asks.
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 DSP training page, the waiver pages, or see the broader I/DD training at Your Training Provider.
MaineCare waivers on this site
- Section 21Home and Community Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder Waiver
- Section 29Support Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder Waiver
- Section 18Home and Community Based Services for Members with Brain Injury Waiver
- Section 20Home and Community Based Services for Adults with Other Related Conditions Waiver
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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.
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Walk through the catalog
We map new-hire and refresher topics from a catalog of 400+ courses and programs to the roles in your program.
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Start with a pilot group
Roll training out to a small group inside one program first, see how it fits, then assign it across the agency.