DirectCourse
Description
Offers a suite of competency-based, online curricula for professionals providing services to people with intellectual, developmental, physical, and psychiatric disabilities, and to older adults. Operated by a partnership of the Institute's Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL) and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information, DirectCourse is comprised of four colleges:
• The College of Direct Support, based at the RTC-CL
• The College of Employment Services, based at the Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston
• The College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving, based at the Center for Personal Assistance Services, University of California, San Francisco
• The College of Recovery and Community Inclusion, based at Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
- Director
- Amy S Hewitt
- Contact
- Susan N O'Nell
- Website
- directcourseonline.com/
- Collaborators
- Center for Personal Assistance Services, University of California, San Francisco
- Elsevier
- Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Temple University
Staff
Product
Topics
- Direct support workforce
- Human resources and management
- Retention and recruitment
- Supervision and mentoring
- Training
- Workforce development strategies
Activities
- Training and professional development