Direct support professional training in Kansas is regulated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), which licenses community service providers for the intellectual/developmental disability system under K.A.R. 30-63. Uniquely, the system is administered locally through 27 Community Developmental Disability Organizations (CDDOs), the regional single points of entry that affiliate providers and translate KDADS expectations into practical training checklists.

Under K.A.R. 30-63-26, staff must complete competency-based training before working alone with the people they support. The regulation also requires that staff certified in CPR and First Aid by a recognized certifying agency be present when services are delivered. K.A.R. 30-63-28 adds the abuse, neglect, and exploitation requirements. Notably, the regulation itself contains no hour minimums and prescribes no curriculum — the topic lists that providers actually train against come from KDADS survey expectations and from CDDO affiliation checklists.

The Johnson County CDDO checklist is a representative example of what affiliated providers are expected to cover: abuse/neglect/exploitation, CPR and First Aid, emergency preparedness, the federal HCBS Settings Rule, individual rights, medication administration, the Person-Centered Support Plan (PCSP), and targeted case management interfaces. Providers affiliating with any of the 27 CDDOs should obtain that region's checklist, because it functions as the de facto training specification.

Ongoing training in Kansas is likewise topic-based rather than hour-based: there is no statewide annual hour mandate, but providers must keep competencies, CPR/First Aid certification, and ANE training current and documented for KDADS surveys and CDDO affiliation reviews. Medication is a gated item with an important nuance: the Kansas Certified Medication Aide credential under K.S.A. 65-1124 applies to adult care homes — in community IDD settings, medication support operates as assistance and nurse delegation rather than through the CMA credential.

Who may deliver the training? Kansas is one of the cleanest open-market states in the country. The Johnson County CDDO — the state's largest — is on record that KDADS does not require a specific training platform or vendor. Some counties make local arrangements (Sedgwick County purchases Relias access as a benefit for its affiliates), but that is a county convenience, not a state mandate: providers everywhere in Kansas choose their own training source.

Training and eTracking Solutions provides online DSP training built for Kansas providers — courses mapped to the K.A.R. 30-63-26 competency areas and the topics on CDDO affiliation checklists (ANE, emergency preparedness, HCBS Settings Rule, rights, person-centered planning), with automatic tracking and documentation that stands up in KDADS surveys and CDDO reviews. Because Kansas leaves vendor choice fully open, agencies can adopt TeTS as their training backbone and use its records to satisfy whichever of the 27 regional checklists applies to them.