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
- Contact
- Kristin Dean
- Director
- Amy S Hewitt
- 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 Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities [Philadelphia, PA]
Staff
Product
Topics
- Direct support workforce
- Supervision and mentoring
- Human resources and management
- Retention and recruitment
- Workforce development strategies
- Training
- Community life
- Aging and retirement
- Assistive/adaptive technology
- Civil rights
- Community supports and services
- Friendships and social relationships
- Parenting and family relationships
- Person-centered planning and practices
- Positive behavior support
- Quality outcomes
- Recreation and leisure
- Self-advocacy and self-determination
- Social inclusion
- ISP development
- Consumer/self-directed services
- Specific life stage
- Children
- Adolescents and young adults
- Adults
- Seniors
- Housing and residential services
- Community group residential
- Consumer/self-directed services
- Family supports/in-home services
- Housing access
- Employment and postsecondary education
- Accommodations and supports
- Assistive/adaptive technology
- Career preparation
- Customized employment
- Employment and workforce development
- Supported employment
- Health and safety
- Emergency/disaster preparedness
- Health and wellness
- Healthcare
- Mental health supports
- Specific disability
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Emotional/behavioral disorder (EBD)
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)
- Mental health and/or chemical dependency
- Multiple disabilities
- Physical disability
Activities
- Training and professional development