DDINFoSOURCE
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This resource page was a component of a project funded by the Indiana Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services. Due to budgetary constraints, the project has ended.
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Direct Support Professional Development
Indiana direct support professionals (DSPs) working with people with developmental disabilities now have new opportunities to earn higher pay, obtain national credentials, and receive career-enhancing education and training.
The Direct Support Professional Development program is a training initiative designed to support DSPs and help them gain new information, learn new skills, and make career connections. The program was created through a unique partnership of the Center on Community Living and Careers (CCLC) at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC) at Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College, the state of Indiana’s Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services (DDRS), and nine participating service providers as well as self-advocates, families, direct support professionals themselves, and a broad coalition of state and professional organizations.
DSPs working for any of the nine participating service providers are now eligible to enroll in the first of what will be three Direct Support Professional Development education and career pathway choices (see reverse side). The three pathways are 1) the Ivy Tech Direct Support Professional Development Certificate in Human Services, 2) the Indiana College of Direct Support, and 3) the Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship program.
For more information about the Direct Support Professional Development project, contact Mary Held at the Center on Community Living and Careers, (812) 855-6508 or maheld@indiana.edu
Informational Brochure (pdf format)