Frontline Initiative Webinar: NADSP Looks Deeper: Choice, Direction, and Control
Part of the Frontline Initiative Webinar: NADSP Looks Deeper series.
WebDescription
A companion webinar to the Frontline Initiative issue titled, "Choice, Direction, and Control" 
. Host John Raffaele, Director of Educational Services at NADSP and authors Desiree Loucks Baer and Matthew Hezzy Smith have a conversation about supported decision making, informed decision making and being person centered as a direct support professional. They discuss the limitations of guardianship and help direct support professionals understand the role that they play in the lives of people who may have guardians. They share insights and information about the importance of always presuming that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities deserve the most possible level of control over their destiny and self-determination.
Details
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Webinar
- Edition
- Volume 14, Number 2
- Publisher
- National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals
- Co-publisher
- Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)
- Collaborators
- National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals
Topics
- Direct support workforce
- Training
- Community life
- Person-centered planning and practices
- Self-advocacy and self-determination
- Consumer/self-directed services