The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 8731)
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§ 8731. Training
(a) For the purposes of this section, “staff” means any person who receives compensation
to provide services to one or more recipients and includes the person’s supervisor.
“Staff” does not include a family-directed respite worker.
(b) The Department shall ensure that all staff receive pre-service and in-service training
consistent with the system of care plan. Family-directed respite staff shall receive
pre-service and in-service training at the request of the family at no cost to the
family. People with developmental disabilities and their families may participate
in the training, including planning and delivery of that training.
(c) The Department shall adopt rules for training standards that ensure that individual
support staff understand the philosophy and values that underlie the services and
that they acquire the skills necessary to implement the purposes and principles of
this subchapter and to address the individual needs of the person or family for whom
they provide services.
(d) All staff and all family-directed respite workers shall be trained in the requirements
of 33 V.S.A. chapter 69, relating to reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of
elders or of adults who have a disability, and the requirements of 33 V.S.A. chapter
49, subchapter 2, relating to reports of suspected abuse or neglect of children. (Added 1995, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 113; 2023, No. 6, § 216, eff. July 1, 2023.)