Direct Support Professional Training for IDD Providers

Direct Support Professional Training That Helps IDD Teams Onboard Faster

Give direct support professionals the role-specific training, compliance support, and development tools they need to build skills, stay prepared, and deliver consistent person-centered care.

  • Role-specific training for direct support professionals
  • Onboarding paths and compliance tracking in one system
  • Tools to build competency, consistency, and retention

Trusted Partners in DSP Training

Relias develops solutions in partnership with leaders in the IDD space and helps organizations strengthen workforce readiness, consistency, and care quality.

Your teams are being asked to do more with less

IDD organizations face constant pressure to recruit qualified staff, onboard faster, maintain compliance, and support consistent, high-quality care across every role. Generic training platforms often fall short because they are not built for the specialized needs of the populations you serve or the teams who support them.

Staffing and retention pressure

Onboarding and competency gaps

Compliance and quality demands

Attract and retain employees by offering structured development, clear learning pathways, and meaningful growth opportunities.

Help new hires build role-specific knowledge faster and support long-term success with consistent development.

Reduce administrative burden with better training oversight, tracking, and tools that help staff stay prepared.

One partner for IDD learning, compliance, and performance

Relias helps IDD providers strengthen workforce performance with accredited training, compliance support, assessments, and tools designed to improve retention, build competency, and support better outcomes.

Learning

Compliance

Performance

Support your workforce with award-winning content that makes it easier to onboard new hires, develop role-specific skills, and create opportunities for ongoing growth. Relias helps IDD organizations deliver meaningful training experiences that prepare staff for the realities of their roles while building confidence, consistency, and long-term capability across the organization.

Simplify compliance with tools that help your organization assign, track, and manage required training with greater visibility and less manual effort. Relias makes it easier to stay aligned with organizational and regulatory expectations, reduce oversight challenges, and support staff readiness without adding unnecessary complexity for administrators.

Strengthen performance across your organization with solutions that help assess knowledge, reinforce learning, and support skill development over time. Relias gives providers the tools to identify gaps, personalize development, and improve workforce readiness so teams can perform more confidently, consistently, and effectively.

Built for the realities of IDD services

Relias helps IDD providers equip direct support staff, frontline supervisors, nurses, managers, and qualified intellectual disability professionals with the training and tools they need to deliver more confident, person-centered care. From foundational learning to skill development and competency support, Relias is designed to help organizations improve consistency, strengthen teams, and support better care experiences.

Specialized support for ABA and autism service providers

Relias provides convenient, effective training for BCBAs, RBTs, and other team members who support individuals with autism. With content created alongside ABA experts and adult learning specialists, organizations can build stronger teams while helping staff meet certification and continuing education needs.

Support your IDD team with the right tools

From onboarding and compliance to staff development and retention, Relias helps organizations build stronger teams with solutions designed for the realities of IDD care.

See it in action: A Day in the Life

Experience the power of immersive, empathetic training with award-winning content like A Day in the Life: An IDD Perspective, a virtual reality course recognized with a Brandon Hall Group Gold Award in Learning and Development Technology. This virtual reality course gives learners the perspective of a person with IDD to build understanding and improve quality of care.

Tools that go beyond a course library

We combine training with practical tools that help organizations reinforce learning, support skill development, and reduce administrative burden.

1.

Assessments for hiring and development

Support smarter hiring and staff development with role-specific assessments designed to identify gaps and guide growth.

2.

Pro-on-the-Go

Deliver short, mobile-friendly skill refreshers at the point of care on topics like crisis prevention, infection control, transfers, and more.

3.

BrainSparks and gaming

Boost knowledge retention with automated memory reinforcement and learner engagement features that encourage completion.

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Learning paths

Guide staff through structured learning experiences with pre- and post-training assessments on topics like behavior management, crisis management, and cultural competence.

"Relias is not merely a training system — it’s a transformative solution for developing empowered, competent, and well-informed teams."

— Director of Learning and Performance

"I think Relias is the easiest LMS from the back-end administration and the front-end user experience that I’ve ever worked with."

— Director of Learning and Development

See how Relias can support your IDD organization

Whether you are focused on hiring, onboarding, compliance, staff development, or care quality, Relias can help you build a stronger workforce with solutions designed for the needs of IDD providers.