Planning refresher training for current Maine DSPs

A refresher is not orientation with the dates changed. The people in it already work as direct support professionals. They have habits, shortcuts, and a shift they have to get back to. The useful question is which topics your agency still expects them to practice.

Maine DSP training described here is general information. It does not replace Maine DHHS requirements, a waiver, or your policies, and it does not quote a required hour count.

Decide the cycle before you pick the courses

Supervisors usually know the rhythm already: once a year, after an incident review, or when a DSP moves to a new setting. Write that rhythm down before you open a catalog. A cycle with no owner becomes a spreadsheet nobody updates.

• Who is in this round, and who is still inside their first orientation?
• Which topics did supervisors flag in the last few months?
• What should be finished before the next schedule is posted?

Read the Maine DSP training requirements: https://maineidd.com/training-requirements

Keep the topics close to the shift

Current DSPs get more from a short return to communication, boundaries, and daily support than from a repeat of every new-hire module. Dignity and choice still belong in the refresher when the team has drifted toward doing things for people instead of with them.

If a topic only matters for one house or one person, say so. Assigning it to every DSP on the roster teaches the team to click through. A smaller assignment is easier to finish between shifts and easier for a supervisor to follow.

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Records are a walkthrough question

The reason agencies run refreshers is often a record: someone asks whether a direct support professional finished the topics the agency still expects. Your Training Provider can talk through completion records during a catalog walkthrough. Sending a form on this site does not start that tracking.

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Separate refreshers from program redesign

A refresher trains the DSP role. It does not redesign an intellectual and developmental disability program, rewrite a behavior plan, or answer a licensing question. If that is the meeting you actually need, start on the Maine IDD site. If the meeting is about the people who work the shift, stay here and map the refresher to those roles.