DSP training in Indiana is overseen by the Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) through the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services (DDRS) and its Bureau of Disabilities Services (BDS), with quality oversight from the Bureau of Quality Improvement Services (BQIS). The framework covers providers on Indiana's Community Integration and Habilitation (CIH) and Family Supports HCBS waivers.

Indiana's baseline provider rules sit in 460 IAC 6 (notably 6-14-4, 6-14-5, and 6-16-3) and related BDDS policy: pre-service training in person-centered practices, abuse/neglect/exploitation prevention and reporting, universal precautions, communication, medication administration, and CPR/First Aid, plus annual training thereafter. But the decisive requirement is newer: under IC 12-11-16 (enacted by HEA 1342-2023), effective July 1, 2025, every Home and Community Support Professional (HCSP) — a category that includes DSPs — must complete the state's HCSP certification training and appear on Indiana's public HCSP Training Registry. Staff who were not certified were barred from providing services as of January 1, 2026.

The HCSP certification core consists of two state-built e-learning courses — "Foundations" and "Fundamentals," each roughly eight hours with an 80% mastery standard — delivered exclusively on Indiana's state-contracted training platform (operated through Syra Health on the YesLMS platform, free to providers). This is a genuinely state-run model: FSSA's own FAQ states that equivalent training completed on a provider's or vendor's platform must be redone on the HCSP platform, and the state courses cannot be incorporated into other training programs. There is currently no equivalency review, no crosswalk submission, and no transcript import for the certification core.

Medication administration is separately gated: DSPs complete the state's Core A and Core B medication curriculum, with in-person components delivered by BDDS-certified nurses under 460 IAC 9-3-6(b). CPR/First Aid retains its hands-on certification component as well.

What remains open to provider choice is everything beyond the state core: annual refresher and in-service training under 460 IAC 6, supplemental clinical and role-specific topics, onboarding content beyond the state minimum, and the recordkeeping that ties it all together. Providers still must document — and be able to produce for BQIS reviews — evidence that annual training happened, that CPR and medication credentials are current, and that every staff member's HCSP registry status checks out.

Training and eTracking Solutions does not — and no outside vendor can — deliver Indiana's HCSP certification core; that training lives on the state platform by law. Where we help Indiana providers is everything around it: supplemental and annual in-service courses that go beyond the Foundations/Fundamentals minimum, structured onboarding for new hires, and compliance tracking that keeps HCSP certification dates, annual training, CPR/First Aid, and Core A/B medication credentials organized in one audit-ready record for BQIS and waiver reviews.