The Bureau for Developmental Services (BDS) within the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services regulates DSP training through administrative rule He-M 506, readopted in August 2024. The rule applies to area agencies and the provider agencies delivering developmental services under New Hampshire's system — residential, community participation, and individualized supports — and it lays out a staged training sequence tied to tenure milestones rather than a single hour count.

The sequence starts immediately. Within one month of hire, staff must be trained on the rights of people served under He-M 202 and He-M 310 and on understanding behavior as communication. Before working alone with any individual, staff complete individual-specific training on that person's needs and support strategies, verified through a supervisor competency check that is repeated annually. New staff must also complete at least 16 hours of shadowing an experienced worker before independent duty. Within three months, staff complete training in person-centered thinking — and the rule is specific that it be delivered according to a model recognized by NCAPPS or NADSP, with a repeat at least every five years.

Within six months, staff complete the topical curriculum: an overview of developmental disabilities, New Hampshire's service system, quality of life and valued social roles, positive behavior support, health and safety, teaching skills to the people they support, employment supports, self-advocacy, and fire safety. Ongoing requirements then settle into a rhythm — client-rights retraining annually, the supervisor's competency verification annually, and the person-centered thinking refresh on its five-year clock. An LMS that tracks each staff person against these staggered one-month/three-month/six-month/annual/five-year clocks removes most of the administrative risk.

Medication administration is governed separately by He-M 1201: unlicensed staff who administer medications must complete the state curriculum of at least eight hours, delivered through BDS-authorized nurse trainers, with competency verification. This is a state-controlled channel and cannot be met through a general-market course.

On delivery, New Hampshire is a genuinely open market. He-M 506 tells agencies what training must cover and when — not who must provide it. There is no state curriculum, no state LMS, and no approval process; agencies self-select their training sources and must retain training records for six years. The one named external standard cuts in favor of national training bodies: the person-centered thinking requirement expressly recognizes NCAPPS- and NADSP-recognized models.

Training and eTracking Solutions provides online DSP training built for New Hampshire's requirements — courses mapped to the He-M 506 topic areas from rights and behavior-as-communication through the six-month curriculum, with automatic tracking of the one-month, three-month, six-month, annual, and five-year cycles and six-year record retention that stands up in BDS certification reviews. As a NADSP-accredited training provider, TeTS' person-centered training aligns directly with the rule's NCAPPS/NADSP-recognized-model clause, and shadowing hours, supervisor competency checks, and He-M 1201 medication certifications can be logged alongside coursework for a complete file.