DSP Workforce Development Program

Description

Provided state-of-the-art resources to help people with disabilities and their families find and retain quality Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). Specifically, the program updated and marketed Realistic Job Preview films and other products on direct support recruitment, retention and training. On a fee-for-service basis, the program, which was funded through external sales, provided: technical assistance and consultation, training, assessment, and research and evaluation to state and federal governmental agencies, provider organizations and others facing these issues. Since 1997, the program has provided training and consultation in nearly every U.S. state and in five foreign countries.

This project was archived on 2015-07-08T00:00:00-05:00

Director

Amy S Hewitt

Contact

larso072@umn.edu, 612-624-6024

Past funder

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

Staff

Amy S Hewitt :: Director, Institute on Community Integration

Sheryl A Larson :: Research Manager 3

Mark R Olson :: Project Coordinator

Susan N O'Nell :: Director – DirectCourse UMN Curriculum

Jerry W Smith :: Director of Marketing and Communications