Human resources and management
The Institute addresses how human resources staff can better manage direct support professionals to better serve people with disabilities.
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- ANCOR/RTC Realistic Job Preview (2017)
A video illustrating the real, everyday work of direct support professionals (DSPs) in the field of developmental disabilities. This job preview is a DSP recruitment strategy designed to give...
- Direct Support Worker Survey 2019 Final Report (2019)
The final report from a statewide survey of direct support workers in Minnesota to better understand wages, benefits, size, and scope of the direct support workforce.
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - DirectCourse (2004)
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....
- Final Report: National Training Institute for Frontline Supervisors (2007) [Archived]
A report describing a project that refined, tested, and delivered a "Train-the-Trainer" model to the National Training Institute for Frontline Supervisors. The project also provided a distributed...
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Find, Choose and Keep Great DSPs (2006)
A pair of easy-to-use toolkits helping families and people with disabilities find quality, caring, and committeed Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). There are two different versions of the...
Cost: Free - $30.00 Delivery format: PDF, Print - Frontline Supervisor Assessment (2013)
A test helping frontline supervisors and frontline supervisor candidates to evaluate their current performance level and create a self-development plan. Known as the Frontline Supervisor...
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Frontline Supervisor Structured Behavioral Interview Questions (2013)
A set of behavioral and situational interview questions gauging the knowledge of external frontline supervisor candidates about the 11 competencies identified in the National Frontline Supervisor...
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Higher Ground: The Dedication of Direct Support Professionals During and After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Brief) (2007)
A brief summarizing the report, You Know that it's Got to be Dedication that I am Still Here: The Experiences of Direct Support Professionals During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the Aftermath ....
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Higher Ground: The Dedication of Direct Support Professionals During and After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (film) (2007)
A documentary film telling the stories of some of the heroic Direct Support Professionals from New Orleans who, despite long hours, low pay, and tremendous stress and trauma, continued to provide...
Cost: $19.99 Delivery format: Online - National Frontline Supervisor Competencies (2013)
A nationally validated set of 11 competency areas, known as the National Frontline Supervisor Competencies, guiding the work of frontline supervisors in the direct support workforce.
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - National Validation Study of Competencies For Frontline Supervisors and Direct Support Professionals (2007)
A report examining organizational workforce outcomes; characteristics of and differences between managers, Frontline Supervisors (FLS) and Direct Support Professionals (DSPs); and workplace...
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations (2012) [Archived]
A 15-chapter textbook and how-to-guide helping organizations to select and implement strategies that address the challenges of recruiting, retaining, and training Direct Support Professionals.
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - You Know That it's Got to be Dedication That I am Still Here: The Experiences of Direct Support Professionals During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Aftermath (2007)
A report describing the experiences of Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who worked in New Orleans between August 2005 and May 2006 - before, during, and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In...
Cost: Free Delivery format: PDF - Frontline Initiative (1996 – 2019) [New]Latest: Self-Care for DSPs
This newsletter covers the issues important to direct support professionals and supervisors who support people with IDD and other disabilities in a variety of community settings.
Cost: Free Delivery format: Email subscription - Frontline Initiative Webinar: NADSP Looks Deeper (2018)Latest: Choice, Direction, and Control
A webinar companion series to each issue of Frontline Initiative , where a contributing author to the issue is interviewed by staff from the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals...
- Impact (2000 – 2019)Latest: Feature Issue on Inclusive Education for K-8 Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities
A newsletter series containing strategies, research, and success stories in specific focus areas related to persons with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities. It provides practical...
Cost: Free Delivery format: Email subscription, Print subscription - Partnerships for Success - Curricula for Supervisors, Managers, and Administrative Staff (2001) [Archived]Latest: The Peer Empowerment Program (PEP): A Complete Toolkit for Planning and Implementing Mentoring Programs Within Community-Based Human Services Organizations
A three-part curriculum series preparing frontline supervisors to successfully recruit, train, and retain Direct Support staff. The materials have been developed to be facilitated by staff trainers...