What to ask in a Maine DSP training walkthrough

A walkthrough opens the Your Training Provider course catalog and matches topics to the direct support roles you hire. It is a working meeting, not an enrollment. The form on this site asks for the meeting. It does not create learning accounts or bill the agency.

Bring the roster shape, not every name

You do not need a full employee list to have a useful hour. You do need a picture of the team: about how many DSPs you employ in Maine, how many are new, and how many are due for a refresher. City and setting matter when the work looks different from one county to the next.

• How many direct support professionals are in the first group?
• Which of them are new hires, and which already work a regular shift?
• What do you need a new hire to finish before they are sent out alone?

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Ask how a topic maps to a shift

Catalog titles are a start. The better question is where a lesson shows up on Tuesday afternoon. Daily support, communication, and boundaries should be traceable to something a DSP actually does. If a topic has no home on the shift, leave it out of the first assignment.

Also ask what the catalog does not decide. It will not tell you your Maine DHHS obligations, and a walkthrough is not a claim that a course is state-approved. Those answers stay with the department, your waiver, and your policies.

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Ask about records before you need them

Supervisors often want to know, later, whether a named DSP finished orientation or a refresher. Ask how completion records work while you are still looking at the catalog. This website cannot switch that on. The walkthrough is the right place to see whether the record matches how your supervisors already follow training.

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Leave with a pilot, not a promise

A good walkthrough ends with a small group, a short list of topics, and a person who will assign them. It does not end with every DSP in the agency enrolled. You can widen the assignment after that group finishes and you have seen what they used on a shift.