This flexible online training package provides essential education for Adult Day Staff working with elderly individuals and those with developmental disabilities. The program allows staff to complete 10 courses of their choice from our comprehensive catalog of 23 specialized courses.
This flexible online training package provides essential education for Adult Day Staff working with elderly individuals and those with developmental disabilities. The program allows staff to complete 20 courses of their choice from our comprehensive catalog of 23 specialized courses.
Program Overview
This comprehensive online training package fulfills the Maryland COMAR standards for required training of Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) working with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Training Requirements
The Maryland COMAR regulations require DSPs to complete specific foundational courses that ensure quality support for individuals with developmental disabilities. This package includes all nine required standard courses.
Required COMAR Standard Courses
This package includes all nine mandatory courses:
Program Benefits
Extended DDA Package Including Bloodborne Pathogens and Incident Management in Cases of Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
This flexible online training package provides essential education for Assisted Living Staff working with elderly individuals and those with developmental disabilities. The program allows staff to complete 20 courses of their choice from our comprehensive catalog of specialized courses to fulfill the 20-hour training requirement.
Fire safety and prevention is important and should be practiced by everyone. This course covers the special considerations of direct support professionals who work with individuals who are developmentally or intellectually disabled.
Elder abuse is a significant problem in the United States and it's been proven that the best way for caregivers to prevent, detect and stop elder abuse is to document and report all important events and changes. This course covers major incidents, adverse incidents and significant changes, as well as the best way to document all three.
In this course, we will discuss how adaptive equipment can be used to help the people you serve and show examples of the adaptive equipment you will often encounter on the job.
Aging begins at birth and ends at death. If you understand how the body ages, you can assist the individuals you support age in the healthiest way possible. This course walks direct support professionals through the different changes that occur as the body matures, and focuses on some unique aspects of aging in the DD/ID community. In this course, we will discuss aging and the special needs of the elderly. You will learn about the aging process and how to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities age in the healthiest way possible.
In this course, you will learn the responsibilities involved with becoming a caregiver and how to cue, coach and assist residents with various tasks and activities of daily living.
For most of us, home represents security and independence so when asked about their preference for housing, most seniors will respond that they’d like to remain in their homes. Unfortunately, that isn’t always possible so, instead, assisted living facilities become an option for helping people cope with their declining abilities. In this course you will learn the responsibilities involved with becoming a caregiver and how to assist residents with various tasks and activities of daily living.
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