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National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week The United States Senate recently adopted a resolution designating the week of September 8th - 12th as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week. This legislation recognizes and celebrates the important work that direct support professionals, direct care workers, personal assistants, personal attendants, in-home support workers, and paraprofessionals provide to individuals experiencing disability. State agencies, employer organizations, and individuals who employ direct support professionals may want to take the opportunity to make special recognition of workers that week. There are a number of ways to celebrate at different levels including spreading the word about the Senate resolution, gathering workers together to have a party, hanging a banner or sign in your office lobby announcing this special week, giving workers a token of your appreciation such as a hand-written card, flowers, or a plaque acknowledging their hard work. For more information, please visit ANCOR's website (www.ancor.org or www.youneedtoknowme.org) and refer to the full text of S. RES. 613. National Alliance. of Direct Support Professionals http://www.nadsp.org National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce http://www.directcareclearinghouse.org/index.jsp Research and Training Center on Community Living – University of Minnesota – Direct Support Professional Workforce Development Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute Center for Personal Assistance Services Human Services Research Institute – Workforce Development Initiatives ANCOR The Kansas Alliance for Direct Support Professionals
Louisiana Direct Support Professionals http://www.youneedtoknowme.org/ Indiana Care-Givers Association CMS Direct Service Workforce Demonstration Promising Practices in Marketing, Recruitment and Selection Interventions (PDF) - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated a demonstration project to improve the Direct Service Community Workforce to test the effectiveness of different workforce interventions on the retention and recruitment of Direct Service Workers (DSWs). This report identifies promising practices in direct service worker marketing, recruitment, and selection across the CMS grantees. Under a contract to provide technical assistance to the DSW grantees in collaboration with The Lewin Group (Lewin), the Research and Training Center developed this report. (2006); File Size: 401 KB Direct Support Professional YouTube video - Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), often referred to as caregivers, personal assistants or homecare aides, provide daily supports to millions of Americans with disabilities living and working in the community. DSPs provide supports for a variety of important day-to-day activities, including health needs, personal care and hygiene, mobility, employment, transportation, recreation, home-management activities, etc. New York State...Everyday Heroes Video OMRDD Presents... Everyday Heroes: Building Direct Support Leadership for Inclusion DVD, for viewing. This award-winning DVD celebrates the contributions of direct support professionals and presents the Everyday Heroes values and themes. Featured are stories of people with developmental disabilities who participate in community life, as narrated by the direct support professionals who assist them. http://www.omr.state.ny.us/hp_everyday_intro.jsp Find, Choose & Keep Great DSPs: Toolkits for Families and People with Disabilities (2007)These toolkits from the Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration—one for people with disabilities and one for their families and support providers—aim to help people with disabilities and their families find quality, caring, and committed Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). The toolkits, which can be used together or separately, provide information on where individuals and families can find DSPs; how individuals and families can choose the best DSP for their needs, including how to develop a realistic job preview; and how to train and support DSPs in the job. Both are available in PDF. http://rtc.umn.edu/ildspworkforce/ Direct Support Persons (Illinois) - ON THE JOB ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPANYING COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING ASSESSMENTS On-the-Job-Training provides DSPs an opportunity to practice what they have learned in class. With OJT, the DSP performs specific tasks under the supervision of someone else who is qualified to perform that task (e.g., supervisors, experienced DSP, QMRP). Instructors should look for opportunities to reinforce the interventional competencies through on-the-job training. http://www.dhs.state.il.us/mhdd/dd/pdf/DSPApp3jaC-BTA.pdf  Direct Support Workforce DevelopmentOne of the biggest challenges to providing community supports for people with developmental disabilities is the ability to find, keep and retain qualified direct support professionals (DSPs). The Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota maintains a comprehensive research, training and technical assistance program in the area of direct support workforce development. The RTC DSP workforce development program, its' staff and partners are working vigorously to find creative solutions to the workforce challenges of recruitment, retention and training. http://rtc.umn.edu/dsp/ California Curriculum - Community Care Facility - California - The Teacher and Student's Resource Guides for the Direct Support Professional Training includes extensive information related to each training session, in-class activities, homework assignments, session review questions/answers, reference and resource materials. These files are in PDF (Portable Document Format) and due to their size, it may take several minutes to load. Teacher's Guides & Students' Guides http://www.dds.ca.gov/DSPT/WhatsNew.cfm California Department of Developmental Services Institute on Community Inclusion's Guide to High Quality DSP Training Resources http://134.84.215.92/resource/ Oklahoma Training Curriculum (Residential Trainer and Student Manuals)
Alaska Training Curriculum (2000 - 2004)
Resource for Direct Support Professionals Supervisory Training Curricula for Personal Assistance Services for People with Disabilities http://www.hcbs.org/
National Standards for Direct Support Professionals
http://www.nadsp.org/training/csss.asp Code of Ethics for Direct Support Professionals http://www.nadsp.org/library/code.asp Online Links:
Links to National Organizations The National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals http://www.nadsp.org/about/ California Competency-based Training for Direct Support Professionals http://www.dds.ca.gov/DSPT/DSPT_main.cfm
Community Workforce Development: Core Elements and Contemporary Strategies Presenters: Trina Losinno, David Losinno, Michelle May Ms. May described the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities direct support workforce development project being carried out by the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota, the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, and the Human Services Research Institute. This comprehensive effort seeks to improve recruitment and retention of direct support workers through increased training opportunities for direct support workers and supervisors, improved marketing and recruitment tools, a credentialing and apprenticeship pilot program, and statewide capacity building plan. Products created through the projects such as the realistic job preview video were showcased. The Losinnos' presentation outlined the workforce development strategies implemented over the past five years by SPIN, Inc, a community provider agency in Pennsylvania , and recipient of the 2003 Moving Mountains Award for workforce development. They also discussed the measures taken to fund and institutionalize these strategies.
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