Provider Staff Training Requirements
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services requires agencies to provide staff training. This page includes a list of all required trainings, along with policies that would be beneficial to review when developing your agency's training strategy. KDADS does not require a specific training platform or vendor, and there are many options to choose from (some may be purchased subscriptions or developed by the agency).
**This page has been assembled by the Johnson County CDDO as a resource. Nothing on this page should be considered an endorsement of any one training option over another.**
Kansas Train
Kansas Train is a resource provided through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment that provides a variety of educational opportunities and best practice ideals. It is no charge, but you must register. You can view an overview of the program and how to register here. We encourage any agency to utilize this resource for additional staff training.
Required Trainings
- KS Train - Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation & Adverse Incident Reporting
- Abuse, Neglect, & Exploitation
- KS Train - KDADS: HCBS Waiver Settings Final Rule
- KS Train - DSW History of Disability Rights and Services
- KS Train - DSW Dignity of Risk
- Individual Rights - Johnson County
- Dignity of Risk and Duty of Care Explained - Abilities Manitoba
- Dignity of Risk - CQL
- KS Train - DSW Medication Administration
It is important for direct support staff to be trained on, and to have read, the PCSP and any other support documents (Behavior Support Plan, Risk Assessment, or Informed Consent) for any person they support, to ensure that services are delivered in accordance with the person’s PCSP. We encourage agencies to maintain documentation to show that staff have received this training.
- Targeted Case Management (TCM) Training - TCM agencies only (certificate)
- KS Train - TCM Training
Additional Training Courses
- KS Train - DSW Principles of Behavior
- KS Train - DSW Positive Behavior Supports
- The Mandt System: Holistic Training to Reduce Workplace Violence
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
- BCBA (Will put something here but TBD)
- CBHT (Community Behavioral Health Team (CBHT)
- This is a group that works as a partnership between Johnson County Developmental Supports and Johnson County Mental Health to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who also have a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. They provide case management, therapy services, and positive behavioral supports.
- Additionally, they can provide a broad overview of positive behavior supports to an agency’s staff through one of their Behavioral Health Specialists. To inquire about these services, contact the Director of Health Services, Carla Sadler.
- KS Train - DSW Optimizing Health, Safety, and Quality of Life Through Nutrition
- KS Train - DSW Social Determinants of Health
- KS Train - DSW Supporting People with Complex Medical Conditions
- KS Train - DSW Health Maintenance Activities
- KS Train - DSW End of Life Care
- KS Train - DSW Dementia Caregiving
- KS Train - DSW Brain Injury 101
- KS Train - Exploring Successful Academic Health Department Partnerships
- KS Train - DSW Professionalism and Ethics
- KS Train - DSW Intro to HCBS for DSWs: How I get Paid and Why
- KS Train - DSW Safe Transfers and Lifting
- KS Train - DSW Burnout and Approaches to Self-Care
- KS Train - DSW Fall Prevention for Direct Support Workers
- KS Train - Workplace Communication & Conflict Resolution for DSWs
- KS Train - DSW Adaptive Communication
- KS Train - Stressful Times the Role of Self-Help and Professional Help
Informed Choice is the process of ensuring people know a wide variety of the options available to them. This should also include the potential risks, benefits, and consequences of the options, not just the options they have chosen in the past. This enables the person the opportunity to express their preferences or try new things once they have been provided enough information to do so. This also enables the person the opportunity to have control over their lives and make a choice that may or may not be in their best interest.
Here are some instructional videos that provide insight on ensuring that the people served are provided a variety of choices and options to ensure their preferences are honored and they live their most fulfilling lives.