APD Training

Welcome to APD's Training Website

Through this website, the State of Florida's Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) offers dynamic, interactive on-line courses for anyone who provides direct care services to persons with developmental disabilities, as well as other interested parties.

Currently we offer the two required Direct Care Core Compentency training courses that meet the requirements of Section 2.1 (7) of the June 23, 2005 Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services Coverage and Limitation Handbook and administrative rules 59G-8.200, F.A.C. Individuals hired after June 30, 2006 will need to complete the core competency training prior to providing unsupervised direct care. The two Direct Care Core Competency courses are:

• Introduction to Developmental Disabilities
• Health and Safety

A third requied course is offered to satisfy the new training requirements for all individuals providing services to APD clients under the Medicaid waiver program and to residents of APD-licensed residential facilities (as described in administrative rules 59G-8.200, F.A.C. and 65G-2, F.A.C.). The third course is:

• Zero Tolerance

The purpose of the Zero Tolerance course is to teach direct care providers, support coordinators, and any person providing care or support to an APD client on behalf of the Agency or its providers about abuse, neglect and exploitation of persons with developmental disabilities. It will provide information about how often these types of crimes happen and also describe how and why these crimes usually occur. This training will provide you with the tools to identify potentially dangerous situations and tell you how to report that information. Finally, this course will provide you with information about things you can do to help prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation from happening in the first place.

As you progress through the interactive training courses, you will have an opportunity to print aides that can immediately be used in your current job.

In the next couple of months we will be adding more interactive courses, so you may want to mark this site as one of your favorites.

Please note that you must register one business day prior to taking any course.

Registration and login instructions:

• New to APD or New TCC Students: If this will be your first APD course and you have never taken any course at TCC before, please select this option for instructions.
• Previous APD or TCC Students: If you have previously taken another APD course, or another course of any kind at TCC, please select this option for instructions.

Grades:

Students taking an APD course either receive a "S" for satisfactorily completion of the course (achieved 70% or greater on all quizzes) or "U" for unsatisfactorily completion of the course (achieved less than 70% on all quizzes). APD Grading Process and Schedule (pdf 24.71 kB)

Transcripts:

Please scroll down to section III. Print/View Your Transcript on To Print Your Transcript page. Appoximately one week after you have completed the course, you will be able to print a copy of your transcript. Select this option for more information.

For More Assistance

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Email Us at: apd@tcc.fl.edu

Call toll free 1.866.605.7274.