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Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
 | A Training Manual for Direct Care Staff
A book to help DSPs better understand the sexual behavior of the people they support. | | Abuse and Neglect Prevention Systems: Evaluation and Implementation Guide
This is a curriculum on responding to abuse and neglect. It is based on the 7 Key Components as developed by CMS. | | Alternatives to Lecture: Info-Line
This booklet for trainers suggests alternatives to lectures, including discussion, dramatization, demonstration, panels, programmed instruction, coaching, and mentoring. | | An introduction to teamwork in community health and human services
This product provides training ideas for agencies, managers, supervisors and direct support professionals about the knowledge, skills and values needed to build and support successful teams. | | Applied Psychology In Personnel Management, Sixth Edition
This book will help businesses develop better skills in attracting new people to hire. It will also help in the selection and placement of those people, and offers helpful tools for looking at how well someone does their job.
| | Australasian Code of Ethics for Direct Support Professionals
A guide for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) on how to work in the best interests of people with disability, especially where difficult decisions have to be made and people's values and priorities are challenged or questioned. | | Autism and Loss
A book about how people with Autism experience loss and grieving, and ways that others can provide support. | | Avoiding Burnout Through Personal Energy Management: Info-Line
This booklet is about managing time so that personal energy -- physical, emotional, and intellectual --can stay at an optimal level. | | Basics of Time Management: Info-Line
This booklet offers an overview of time management, including the most common elements associated with time management.
| | Be a Better needs Analyst: Info-Line
Information on improving the techniques used by trainers when conducting a needs analysis for an organization. | | Becoming an Outside Consultant: Info-Line
This booklet reviews the steps needed to successfully make the transition from working for an organization to becoming an independent consultant.
| | Beyond Traditional Job Development
Beyond Traditional Job Development is a comprehensive guide to the insightful perspectives and effective strategies that lead to successful placement results.
| | Building Foundations: A Curriculum Guide for Supported Parenting
This guide was written to assist individuals who are supporting parents with cognitive limitations. | | California Direct Support Professional Training Curriculum
A two-year curriculum for those who work in residential care environments. | | Camcorder In the Classroom: Using the Videocamera to Enliven Curriculum
"The Camcorder in the Classroom" teaches trainers new ways to use video cameras to help people learn important information. | | Coming to Agreement: How to Resolve Conflict: Info-Line
Easy-to-read booklet describing what conflict is, how conflict occurs, and perceptions and principles of conflict management.
| | Community Connection Curriculum
This manual has a staff training curriculum for staff to help
people with disabilities have more friends and relationships with
ordinary community members. It has specific training steps, charts,
and worksheets.
| | Community Services for People with Disabilities
A guide for Direct Support Professonals that explains best practices in working with a person and their team. | | Community Supports for Aging Adults with Lifelong Disabilities
This book provides information on how to work with older adults with developmental disabilities. | | Conducting a Mini Needs Assessment: Info-Line
Information on how to conduct a condensed needs assessment for identifying training problems and solutions for organizations. | | Consent Handbook for Self-Advocates and Support Staff
This workbook for self-advocates and support staff provides tools to understand and implement crticial life decisions. | | Core Competency "How to ... Guides"
Set of 4 booklets on how to implement a competency-based staff training system. | | Creating a Meaningful Day: An Innovative Curriculum for Adults with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
A curriculum for supporting adults with significant intellectual disabilities. It teaches relationship skills and other skills and activities to help create meaningful days. | | Design Productive Mentoring Programs: Info-Line
This booklet offers information on designing mentoring programs. | | Designing Positive Behavior Support Plans (Second edition)
A book for providers, parents and students that outlines how to design positive behavior support plans for students with disabilities | | Developmental Drama: Dramatherapy Approaches for People with Profound or Severe Multiple Disabilities, Including Sensory Impairment
This book is about helping people with significant disabilities to become involved in the arts. | | Direct Support Professional Resource Guides
Eleven resource guides for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who work in group homes. | | Direct Support Professional Statewide Workforce Employment Assessment Report
This study examines the crisis affecting the direct service workforce and its impact in Idaho. | | Essentials for Evaluation: Info-Line
This publication outlines the basics of the evaluation of training programs. | | Ethics for Training and Development
This booklet's emphasis is on training business people in ethical practices. | | Facilitation at a Glance: A pocket guide of tools and techniques for effective meeting facilitation1999
This is a book about meeting facilitation. | | Fact Sheet: Summary of Self-Determination by Michael Kennedy and Lori Lewin
A single page that summarizes the meaning of self-determination. | | Family Quality of Life Survey
This is a survey that addresses family quality of life and helps families or family support personnel identifiy family strengths and priorities for support. | | FEMA Emergency Management Institute G197 Emergency Planning and Special Needs Populations
This is a set of training materials for local emergency planners. Included are an instructor's manual, a student manual, PowerPoint slides and handouts for three days of training. All can be downloaded for free. | | Find the Right Consultant: Info-Line
This issue of Info-Line offers information on selecting business consultants. | | Focus on the Frontline: Perceptions of Workforce Issues among Direct Support Workers and Their Supervisors
A report regarding the perceptions of Massachusetts direct support staff on the training they have received. | | Functional Independence Skills Handbook
An assessment and curriuclum to assist people with special needs in the development of greater personal independence | | Getting Around: Teaching Community Mobility Skills to Adolescents and Young Adults with Disabilities
This 49-page manual provides an overview and training details to help people with disabilities better understand how to use community transportation. | | Getting Ready to Help: A primer on interacting in human service
Book offering advice on providing direct care. | | Guidebook on helping persons with mental retardation mourn.
The book for supporting loss, including death, job or residential change, and other situations that cause bad feelings.
| | How to Conduct a Performance Appraisal: Info-Line
Information for managers and supervisors on how to conduct a performance appraisal for those whom they supervise. | | How to Facilitate: Info-Line
Booklet on facilitating quality teamwork. | | How to Make a Large Group Presentation: Info-Line
Booklet offering information on how to make presentations to large groups. | | How to Teach Daily Living Skills to Adults with Developmental Disabilities
This book shows how to help people who have intellectual disabilities learn to care for themselves. | | How to Write a Business Plan: Info-Line
Booklet offering information on writing a business plan. | | Icebreakers: Info-Line
This booklet offers ideas for using ice breakers during presentations. | | Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting Success in School and Beyond for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. | | In My Shoes
A series of staff training games that create simulations of experiences and environments for consumers, families, co-workers and paid staff. | | In Our Words ....
Vermont self-advocates express their training priorities for new workers. | | Individualized Positive Behavior Support
A fact sheet about planning positive ways to support people who use challenging behavior. You can download it as a PDF file in either English or Spanish. | | Is it Menopause?
These PowerPoint slides are about menopause and women who have intellectual disabilities. | | Job-Related Literacy Training: Teaching Reading on the Job
This booklet focuses on teaching job-related reading skills. | | Learning Disabilities and Bereavement
This article has suggestions about how to help people with disabilities go through the grieving process. | | Make a Difference: A Guidebook for Person-Centered Direct Support
Guides a Learning Journey that supports action-learning about relationship building, planning with people in a person-centered way, supporting choice, & building community inclusion. | | Making Self Employment Work for People with Disabilities
A complete guide for individuals, families, and professionals regarding the development, design, and financing of a small business. | | Managed Health Care Curriculum
A training curriculum for staff, people with disabilities, and their families on managed health care. | | Mental health fact sheet
This fact sheet is about noticing mental health challenges in people who have ntellectual disabilities. | | Minnesota Self-Determination DSP Training Modules
A set of training modules to teach DSPs how to support the self-determination of people with disabilities. These modules are most useful in residential programs and have many activities. | | My Choice, Your Decision
A video and curriculum that shows the hilarious differences between new fads in providing services and what people really want for themselves. | | National Alliance of Direct Support Professionals Code of Ethics
A series of materials on the Code of Ethics developed for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). | | National Caregiver Training Program
This training teaches people how to provide personal care. There are many units that have curriculum guides and DVDs.
| | New Vision:Training Parents as Early Intervention Coordinators
A curiculum designed to train parents of children with disabilities to become early intervention coordinators. | | Off to a good start: Successful orientation programs
A manual on staff orientation | | Optitude Challenge
This is a training program for direct care staff to help them learn to be the best person they can be. We look at optimism and gratefulness. When people focus on the good things in their own lives they can do a better job of supporting others. | | Path: 2nd Edition: Planning Positive Possible Futures
A guide to exciting, creative, colorful futures planning for families, organizations and schools to build caring "including" places to live, work and learn. | | Peer mentoring: A workshop series for direct-care workers in home and residential care
This training material is designed to prepare veteran direct care workers to become mentors. It focuses on three skill areas: leadership, communication, and problem-solving. It is divided into eight three-hour modules. | | Personal Assistance in the Workplace
a manual about Personal Assistance Services in the workplace | | Personnel Preparation in Disability and Community Life: Toward Universal Approaches to Support
This book is for the development of new courses, seminars, and training on the participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of community life. | | Planning Partners (Trainer Guide)
This product provides a fun, interactive workshop curriculum to teach people with disabilities and a planning partner (relative, friend, staff) how to advocate for themselves, communicate effectively, resolve conflict and develop life goals. | | Position Paper on Medication Management for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association)
This paper proposes best practice guidelines | | Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum
This training curriculum is designed for training supervisors of direct support professionals in the values and practices of positive behavior support. | | Positive behaviour support for people with intellectual disabilities: evidence-based practice promoting quality of life
A guide for Direct Support Professionals and others involved in developing support plans for people who use challenging behavior | | Principles of Organization Development: Info-line
This Info-Line publication is written primarily for internal trainers or training managers. It gives an overview of organizational development, what it is and how it works. | | Providing Practical Support for People with Autism Disorder
This book explains the needs of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the best ways to provide support. | | Quality in Practice: Advocacy
A rescource guide that provides suggestions on how organizations can establish an advocacy-oriented perspective. | | Quality in Practice: Respect
A short guide for providers giving information on the importance of respect and how to show respect. | | Quality in Practice: Rights and Responsibilities
This guide gives suggestions on how organizations can support people with disabilities to exercise the same rights and responsibilities as all citizens. | | Quality in Practice: Social Roles
A resource guide that provides tips on how organizations can seek to intentionally build social roles for all the people they support | | Quality in Practice: Thinking About Responsibility
A short guide for DSPs. It tells how people with disabilities learn to have responsibility. It has many ideas anyone can try. | | Quality in Practice---Intimacy/Dating/Marriage
An article with tips for agencies about how to best support people in having romantic relationships | | Quandaries: Understanding mental illnesses in persons with developmental disabilities
This book is about understanding the differences between mental health and mental illness, specifically in persons with developmental disabilities. The book is appropriate reading for support staff and other professionals.
| | Recent findings on frontline long-term care workers: A research synthesis 1999-2003
This document is a summary of available research findings on the frontline long-term care (LTC) workforce since 1999, in both home and community-based and nursing home settings. | | Recruiting Quality Health Care Paraprofessionals
This guide describes effective practices used by the Cooperative Healthcare Network (CHN) to recruit quality paraprofessionals for an employer-based training program. | | Reducing and eliminating restraint of people with developmental disabilities and severe behavior disorders: An overview of recent research
A research paper that gives a brief overview of the most recent research on efforts to reduce and eliminate restraining people with developmental disabilities. | | Remembering the Soul of Our Work
A book of stories written by direct support staff who work with an innovative agency. | | Respectful Relationships and Effective Teaching
This new resource teaches in clear, everyday terms how to interpret behavioral messages from individuals with disabilities whose lives and actions are often misunderstood. | | Results of the 2002 AHCA survey of nursing staff vacancy and turnover in nursing homes
This document reports the results of a survey of the American Health Care Association examining vacancy and turnover rates in nursing homes as well as their ability to recruit new staff. | | S.T.A.R.S.: Skills Training for Assertiveness, Relationship-Building, and Sexual Awareness
A book for teaching youth and adults with disabilities about positive sexual relationships and ways to prevent sexual abuse. | | Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. | | Shift Happens: Making the Shift to Proactive Behavior Management
A book to help staff learn how to be proactive rather than reactive toward behavior problems. | | Shifting Power and Control: Training Tools for the Self-Determination Journey
Training activities for self-determination, systems change, community inclusion, community participation, person-centered planning | | Simply for the Love of It
This book provides historical perspective on services for people with disabilities and offers suggestions for where these services and self-advocacy might go in the future. | | Simply for the Love of It: A Beginner's Guide to Support Services for People with Developmental Disabilities
A book for direct support professionals which is designed to serve as a "primer" for working with individuals with disabilities in a very person-centered manner. | | Social Inclusion at Work
This book gives readers clear ways to help people with disabilities work together with and build friendships with others. It focuses on the places where people work. | | Social Literacy: A Social Skills Seminar for Young Adults with ASDs, NLDs, and Social Anxiety
A twelve-week training curriculum to teach adults with disabilities social skills. It includes a book and a CD. | | Specific Natural Activity Program (SNAP ) Curriculum - supporting adults with developmental disabilities
Curriculum to assist in presenting basic skills training to support adults with developmental disabilities in an adult age appropriate forum. | | Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies
This is a book for managers and others who supervise direct care staff for people with disabilities. | | STARS: Specialized Training for Associates in Rural Settings
A basic staff training curriculum developed in Alaska for direct support professionals serving infants and young children, and their families. | | Stop The Violence, Break The Silence Training guide
A training program about domestic and caregiver abuse and its impact on people with disabilities.
| | Successful Orientation Programs: Info-line
This is a short reference guide about employee orientation programs. | | Supporting Adults with Intellectual Disability Through Bereavement and the Grief Process
This is a PowerPoint presentation about the grieving process. | | The Caring Kit
The Caring Kit is everything an organization needs to start a community-based respite care training program for parents who have children with disabilities ages birth to twenty-one. | | The Ethics of Touch: Establishing and Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries in Service to People with Developmental Disabilities
A training package for those who provide direct care to people with developmental disabilities on the topic of touch. | | The Future is Now: A Future Planning Training Curriculum for Families and Their Adult Relatives with Developmental Disabilities
This training curriculum gives families information about the future legal and financial issues for their adult relative. | | The Knowledge and Skills for Social Care Workers series
This series of books is helpful to DSPs who work in residential settings. | | The Managed Health Care Curriculum: Supporting People with Disabilities to Utilize Managed Health Care
An active training curriculum for direct support staff, people with disabilities, and families relating to a person's health. | | The New Basic Training for Trainers from Info-Line
These how-to manuals offer information on training for trainers. | | The Right Start
This publication helps workers, employers, and policymakers identify training needs for direct support workers, learn about resources currently available, and consider what can be done to better prepare workers in the future. | | The Role of Training in Improving the Recruitment and Retention of Direct-Care Workers in Long-Term Care
This paper discusses training as a strategy to reduce turnover among direct care workers and combat high vacancy. | | The SEIU 775 Long-Term Care Training, Support & Career Development Network: A Blue Print for the Future
This paper describes the development and vision for an SEIU-initiated network, which will provide training, on-the-job support, and career development services for long-term care workers. | | The Team Memory Jogger: A pocket guide for team members
This book offers team members advice on improving their skills at being an effective team member, working as a team, knowing when to move to another topic or project, and dealing with problems within the team. | | Through the Eyes of Aliens
A rich and positive description of how it feels to be autistic, written by a woman with that label. Also, how friends, family, and the professionals that work with people with autism can be more sensitive to their needs. | | Training and Development: Special Edition on Staff Training and Retention
This is a special journal issue from the American Society for Training and Development on retention, training and development. | | Training Person-Centered Planning Facilitators: A Compendium of Ideas
This is a manual with formats and resources for training people to
facilitate Person Centered Planning meetings. | | Training quality home care workers
This document provides a description of PHI's approach to developing a stable and competent workforce. | | Transition Strategies for Adolescents and Young Adults Who Use AAC
A book about helping young adults who use special devices to speak prepare for adulthood. The devices are called "Assisstive and Augmenative Communication (AAC) devices" and include things like Dynavoxes. | | TruEnergy Enterprises - Community-based Program and Training Resources
TruEnergy Enterprises - direct-care staff training packets and community-based program resources for care providers assisting persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and those who are homebound. | | Twelve Topics for the New Direct-Care Provider
Training for direct care workers that is specially designed for use in community-based programs. | | Understanding Core Competencies: Info-Line
This booklet defines the meaning of core competencies and how businesses can use this concept to achieve a competitive edge.
| | Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students with Special Needs
Wings to Fly is a comprehensive nuts and bolts handbook for special education and drama teachers on bringing theatre arts to students with special needs. | | With a Little Help From My Friends... A series on contemporary supports to people with mental retardation
This product is a set of five booklets offer practical advice on supporting people at various stages of life and in various settings. These can be accessed online. | | Working from the Heart - A Way of Life
A textbook explaining in detail a new and innovative work ethic that nurtures an individual's potential, and helps them define their purpose, develop passion, and succeed at whatever they pursue. |
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
| "Our Story" DVD
"Our Story" DVD shows how supported living has been realized by thousands of Californians with disabilities. Use it as an introduction for participants and family, a training tool for staff, and the short version can be shared with legislators. | | 7 EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR SECONDARY INCLUSION
A video that offers practical solutions to successful inclusion, presented by secondary education students and teachers.
| | A Credo for Support: People First Version
A revised edition of a powerful video. It is set to music and offers suggestions for people who support someone with a disability. Read by self-advocates, the suggestions prompt viewers to question common views of disability, professionalism, and support. | | A Guide to Being A Companion Homemaker: Roles & Responsibilities DVD
This DVD is about providing services to people in their homes. It focuses on the needs of older persons. | | -A Review of Mental Health Disorders in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
This CD is about mental health disorders. | | Abuse and Neglect of Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
This comprehensive CD-ROM consists of 13 self-paced instructional modules which address the complex issues related to abuse and neglect of children and adults with developmental disabilities. | | Achieving Direct Support Excellence
This DVD is about ways to become a good DSP. | | An Intro to Psychotic Disorders for Direct Support Professionals
This CD is about mental illness and people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities. | | An Intro to Psychotic Disorders for Direct Support Professionals
This CD is about mental health issues and people with intellectual disabilities. | | Balancing Choice and Risk
This is a DVD for staff training. | | Balancing Choice and Risk DVD
This DVD is about allowing people to have choices and risks in their lives. | | Best Boy
Best Boy is an Academy Award winning video about Philly, a man with an intellectual disability who lived with his parents. The story documents his parents failing health, and Philly's entry into the adult services support system.
| | Beyond Fat City
In this DVD, Richard Lavoie, creator of the original F.A.T. City Workshop, reviews the history & philosophy of the project, the major trends & issues in the field of learning disabilities since 1987, and the challenges ahead for parents & educators.
| | Citizen-Centered Leadership Development
This is a training program about helping people with disabilities become full citizens of the communities where they live. | | College of Direct Support
This college has many on-line training opportunities for people who
provide direct support to individuals with developmental disabilities.
| | College of Frontline Supervision and Management
The College of Frontline Supervision and Management(CFSM) is a self-paced training program offered over the Web. It is now part of the College of Direct Support. It helps supervisors and others learn more about recruitment and retention issues. | | Community Residential Core Competencies
This is a 17 page guidebook that describes 14 core compentencies that are necessary for direct support staff who work in residential services supporting persons with developmental disabilities.
| | Community Services for People with Disabilities
A guide for Direct Support Professonals that explains best practices in working with a person and their team. | | Consumer Direction in Personal Assistance, Home Care Training
Training for Personal Assistants supporting persons who are disabled or disabled/elderly and direct their own care.
| | Consumer-Directed Model Training Manual and Personal Care Attendant Handbook
A Consumer-Directed training manual and Personal Care Attendant handbook developed by the Arkansas IndependentChoices program. | | Dealing with Disabilities: Tips for First Responders: People with Mobility Impairments
A tip sheet for first responders about how to help people with disabilities in an emergency. | | Dealing With Grief and Loss: A Team Approach
This CD-ROM has training for DSPs. It is about supporting consumers when someone dies. | | Declarations of Independence
Powerful four-minute DVD features ten self-advocates proclaiming some of their deepest values concerning disability, civil rights and living with dignity.
| | Direct Support Professional Workforce Website
Web site describing research projects, training materials and resources for Direct Support Professionals, Frontline Supervisors and the individuals and organizations who employ them. | | DirectCourse
This is a family of websites with online training for DSPs. | | Disability Evacuation Plan
Everyone needs to be prepared for emergencies. This package includes a DVD and print material. They present information for evacuation plans. They can help protect people with disabilities against injury and loss of life.
| | DisabilityTraining.Com
Distributes 500 resources on major disability subjects. Our award-winning videos and CDs range from Advocacy, Assistive Technology and Autism ... to Learning and Physical Disabilities, Parenting, Special Education and Staff Development.
| | DisabilityTraining.org
The goal of this web site is to advertise and encourage training and education to build supportive communities for Iowans with disabilities. | | Diversity World (Website)
Diversity World is focused on enriching workplaces and reducing employment barriers. It has helpful content and products to support the employment of people with disabilities. | | DOING OUR BEST WORK
In this 17-minute video, Peter looks at ten essential components of quality direct support. A video for training and discussion with people providing or coordinating direct support.
| | Doing Our Best Work: 10 Ingredients of Quality Support
This is a video. It is based on a workshop by Peter Leidy with assistance from Christine Mayer. It is designed to start discussions for providing direct support by looking at ten essential components of quality direct support.
| | Doing Our Best Work: 10 Ingredients of Quality Support DVD
This DVD lists the qualities of a good DSP. | | Drawing the line: Profesisonal vs. Unprofessional Behavior in the Workplace When Working with People who have Developmental Disabilities
A video about professional and unprofessional behavior in the workplace for people who work with persons who have developmental disabilities. | | DSP Certification: Who, How, and Why?
This CD introduces the idea of credentialing DSPs who understand how to support people who have both intellectual and mental health disabilities. | | DSW Resource Center
This federal resource center provides expert information about direct support workforce. It includes databases of materials, technical experts, training tools and a clearinghouse of information. | | Dual Diagnosis: A Guide for Caregivers
This on-line guidebook explains the dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and mental illness. It is written at a very technical level. | | Dual Diagnosis: Mood Disorders and Developmental Disabilities
Videotape about mood disorders. | | Dual Diagnosis: Schizophrenia and Developmental Disabilities
A video tape about diagnosis of schizophrenia in people with developmental disabilities. | | DVD-Based training from the Bethesda Institute
These DVDs cover the basics in supporting people who have intellectual disabilities. | | Early Identification of Cognitive Decline in Pers with I/DD
This CD teaches about the early signs of loss of cognitive ability. | | Efficacy of Curriculum on Dual Diagnosis for Direct Care Personnel
This CD is about an evaluation of a staff training program. | | E-Learning for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Providers
Online training for service providers to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. | | Emergency Response Training
This program is a comprehensive emergency response training tool that educates both the consumer and the caregiver. It verbally and visually demonstrates emergency situations and features a separate segment for the consumer.
| | Everyday Heroes
This video tells stories about direct support professionals and how they have made it possible for people with disabilities to achieve their dreams. | | Exploring Feelings DVD: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Manage Anxiety, Sadness and Anger DVD
This DVD teaches how to support people in managing their emotions. | | Facilitating Competitive Employment for Individuals with Disabilities
This CD features six national experts who talk about employment ideas for people with disabilities. | | Falls and People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities CD
This is a training tool for DSPs. It is intended to reduce the number of falls for adults with developmental disabilities.
| | For Safekeeping: First Responders Autism Training Video
This 20-min video shows how to recognize, approach, and communicate with persons who have autism. It is ideal for school, hospital, & church staff anywhere. Thi video has been successfully used to train police, fire, & other emergency personnel in Mass. | | Fostering Self-Determination
A set of activities to help people build self-determination skills. | | Free and Appropriate Public Education
This DVD was developed for school districts that want to understand the Federal Education Law. It's ideas may help districts to prevent lawsuits stemming from violation of this law as it relates to children with disabilities. | | Heartwork
This video provides an account of what it means to be a direct caregiver. | | How To Help Someone Who Uses a Wheelchair Including Walkers Crutches & Canes DVD
This DVD teaches DSPs and others about safety when helping people who uses a wheelchair or walker. | | How to Teach Daily Living Skills to Adults with Developmental Disabilities
This book shows how to help people who have intellectual disabilities learn to care for themselves. | | I Got that Right: Self-advocates speak up about disability rights
A video about rights | | Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting Success in School and Beyond for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. | | Intellectual Disability & Sexual Expression: Implication for Staff
This CD is about teaching people with intellectual disabilities about sexuality. | | Intellectual Disability DVD
This short DVD explains the basics, such as what intellectual disability is and is not. | | International Mentoring Association
Agency offering support of effective mentoring programs and practices for all types of settings. | | Iowa Training Consortium: Disability Training.org
This is a disability and training website offering information on disability-related events and resources. | | Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.'s Online Training Site
Online training courses developed for various areas within the Human Service field including working with individuals with developmental disabilities. | | Issues in Developmental Disabilities
An internet-based distance education course offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison | | Loss and Grieving: A Lifelong Process for Consumers and Families
This DVD is about how people with dual diagnoses might experience grief and loss. It can be used to train staff. | | Mental health fact sheet
This fact sheet is about noticing mental health challenges in people who have ntellectual disabilities. | | Michael Smull Introduces Person-Centered Thinking Tools
A series of nine videos about person-centered planning. All of the videos can be viewed on YouTube for free. | | My Choice, Your Decision
A video and curriculum that shows the hilarious differences between new fads in providing services and what people really want for themselves. | | Mythconceptions about Sexuality and the Disabled
This DVD expalins things people do not understand about disability and sex. | | National Caregiver Training Program
This training teaches people how to provide personal care. There are many units that have curriculum guides and DVDs.
| | No Walls Computer Courses
A very simple, low literacy level 7-course self-study introduction to basic computer skills for people with disabilities and other interested community members with low computer literacy | | Ohio County Board of MR/DD Internet Orientation Program
A convenient, standardized, flexible, and web-based training is intended for employees of Ohio County Boards of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OCBMR/DD) This curriculum is used by staff working in the areas of adult services, case man | | Online Training
Provides quality online web-based training in a multimedia format that is interesting and informative. | | Open Future Learning
This is an online training website for DSPs who support people with ID/DD. | | Peter Leidy Website
This is a website of a man who is an advocate for people with developmental disabilities. He is a speaker, consultant and writer on many issues involving disability. He also writes and sings funny songs about life in the human services system. | | PLAN Institute
PLAN Institute provides training, consultation, research and publications on the values, concepts and actions of caring citizens, particularly as they relate to persons with disabilities.
| | Planning for Life: The Role of Direct Support Professionals in Self-Directed Planning
A 30 minute video for Direct Support Professionals about ways to support self-determination and self-direction in their work with people who have disabilities. | | Positioning, Turning and Transferring
This video(DVD)teaches staff some basic principles of body mechanics, positioning techniques and guidelines, as well as the importance of dignity and respect. It covers privacy, and maintaining a sense of control for the person with the disability.
| | Potato Video: A Look at Misguided Effort
This 3-minute, lighthearted video looks at "misguided efforts" Uniquely covers 19 common phrases (or attitudes) that can be adjusted to improve the quality of service | | Prevention of Abuse and Neglect Online Course
This online course is designed for DSPs and other professionals who provide support to adults with DD. The goal of the course is to help individuals and organization crafts an environment that prevents abuse, neglect, and exploitation. | | Principles and Practices of Building Community Series
This is a DVD library of six sessions of training providing skills and education on some of the most important concepts of community living. The lessons provide compassionate, humorous and provocative training. | | Profiles in Achievement: Amazing People with Learning Differences
A collection of stories meant to inspire and encourage those with Learning Differences. The stories will help those who don't have a learning difference understand what it is like to have it and that people with LD can go far in life. | | Recollections of the Institution-Part 1: Personal Reflections
In archival footage and interviews, people with intellectual disabilities, who once lived institutional lives, express their daily routines, adversity and insights about living inside the walls. | | Respect: Eliminating Harassment In The Workplace
Respect: Eliminating Harassment In The Workplace is a two hour training designed for direct care support professionals to recognize harassment. | | Roll On DVD
This DVD has stories about children who have disabilities. They are told by parents and the kids themselves. | | Self-Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All
A video and accompanying curriculum to help people discover the connections between self-advocacy and broader social justice movements. | | Self-Determination Tools for Direct Support Staff
This is a program to help direct support staff promote self-determination for people with disabilities. The program includes a DVD of practice exercises and a viewer guide. | | Self-Management and Self-Determination Strategies:Promoting Independence in the Transition to Adult Life
An online course to teach you how to promote transition-aged students' self-management and self-determination skills. | | Sexual Health and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Autism
This is a PowerPoint presentation about healthy sexuality and people with intellectual disability. It also talks about ways to keep people safe from abuse. | | SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities. | | Staff Training That Makes an Impact
This DVD is about what makes staff training lead to better lives for those they support. | | Stand up and tell them: Views from the frontline of long-term care
In this video, direct care workers talk about their real life experiences as home health and nursing home aides. Follow the web link to watch this video online. | | STARS: Specialized Training for Associates in Rural Settings
A basic staff training curriculum developed in Alaska for direct support professionals serving infants and young children, and their families. | | SUPERVISING AN EMPLOYEE WITH A DISABILITY
Training DVD and print resources offers a real-life look at issues and solutions in the workplace. Supervisors and employees with disabilities share their knowledge and experiences in orientation, training and ongoing supervision.
| | Supporting Adults with Intellectual Disability Through Bereavement and the Grief Process
This is a PowerPoint presentation about the grieving process. | | Supporting Adults with Intellectual DisabilityThrough Bereavement and the Grief Process
These PowerPoint note pages explain the grief process for DSPs. The idea is when DSPs understand their own reactions to grief and loss, they will be better able to help others. | | Supporting Self-Determination
A video to teach DSPs how to support the self-determination of the people they assist. | | Take Another Look: Police Response to Seizures and Epilepsy
A video and curriculum to help police officers to respond to people with seizures and epilepsy. | | Teach Me CD
A song about sexual abuse of a person with a developmental disability | | The National Association of QDDPs
A resource for networking and addressing issues that concern QDDPs today. | | The Self Coming Alive: Awareness and Communication Training for Staff and Clients
This CD is training for people with dual diagnosis. It is also training for the staff who work with them. | | The Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities
Through humorous vignettes and instructive scenarios on disability etiquette, this popular video has helped services providers and customer service personnel learn better behaviors. This by-example awareness training has gained many awards. | | This Is YOUR Right
A news show anchored by people with disabilities, these 2 videos from Irene M. Ward poke fun at faked reality commercials and present thoughtful news on living with disability. " | | Thought Sauce! Hot Ideas for Cool Employment
A collection of articles and practical tools to help people understand what customized employment is. | | Tools for Change: A video-based curriculum building skills and knowledge in self-advocacy and disability rights.
A set of training units that teach people with disabilities and their allies about self-advocacy as a social movement. Each unit has a book with lots of information, a video, and ideas for group activities. | | Training Resource Network eStore
eStore website with resources on the full inclusion of people with disabilities in their communities | | TrainingDiversity.com
This website explains ideas about making workplaces welcoming to everyone. It is maintained by an orgainzation who sells products to help organizations.
| | TRN Online Presentations
These online presentations are for staff training. Each is one hour long. They may also be helpful to family members and people with disabilities. | | Understanding and Responding to Persons with Personality Disorders
This CD explains personality disorders. | | Universal Design Education Materials Online
A source for international materials and resources to support the teaching and study of universal design. The website includes a list of conferences and events related to universal design. | | Values of Inclusion
In this online video, a person explains what it means to be a truly inclusive community. | | Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Tip Sheets and Resources
A set of one-page fact sheets about many topics related to disability. They are intended for individuals and families with and without disabilities, service providers, students and trainees. | | VISION LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE
Eleven CD-ROM slide presentation developed for training on inclusion. Futures planning, positive behavioral supports, leadership, universal language, sensitivity training, active learning systems, age appropriateness and supported routines. | | Vision Library for Enhancing Quality of Life CD-ROM
This CD-rom has many PowerPoint slides. They are about improving quality of life for people with disabilities. | | Voices from the Frontlines III: Advancing the Profession of Direct Support
This tool guides DSPs in using the Professional Competency Standards and Code of Ethics in everyday situations. | | Voices from the trenches: The world of the certified nursing assistant
From the stories of three direct-care workers, viewers see the rewards and the challenges of direct-care work. The video also shows how much these DSP's truly care about their jobs and the people they support. | | Vulnerable Adults Mandated Reporting
Free online training about vulnerable adults mandated reporting. It is available online anytime and takes about an hour. | | Wake Up Call
The Wake Up Call DVD was developed as a training film for DSPs. It shows how people with disabilities want staff to speak, work, relate, and interact with them. | | We Care A Lot Foundation
The We Care A Lot Foundation sponsors many self-groups and activities in Northern California. These include People First, Pathfinders, Respect Yourself, and many more. Please visit the website for more details. | | We’re Living Well But Dying Matters
A DVD with people who have learning disabilities talking about death and dying. | | Working with Families: Critical Issues
This DVD is about working with families of people with disabilities. It was prepared by a group that helps people who have intellectual disabilities and mental health needs. | | Working with People with Disabilities in the Areas of Health and Sexuality
This is a CD that teaches staff how to keep people safe. |
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
| ABCD Training Group
The Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Training Group offers practical training on using ABCD principles from John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann's many publications such as "Building Communities From The Inside Out". | | American Society for Training and Development
Founded in 1944, ASTD is the world's leading professional association and resource on workplace learning and performance issues. Mainly targeting trainers, ASTD also hasresources helpful to administrators, managers and supervisors. | | Behavioral Education and Consultation Services
This organization helps parents, teachers, and employers to teach desirable behaviors and eliminate undesirable behaviors. | | Blue Tower Training
An organization that provides training, keynote speeches, consultation and resources to support services for people with disabilities. | | Building Sustainable Business Partnerships in Supported Employment
The purpose of this two-year training and technical assistance project in Illinois was to train 20-30 professionals from ten supported employment agencies. The intended outcome was 150 new jobs. The actual outcome was more than 200 jobs.
| | BUTTERFLYWHEEL Motivation, Advocacy & Consulting
Monica J. Foster, a certified life transition coach w/ spina bifida, offers life transition coaching, supportive goal setting for people facing disability/chronic illness, positive talks, disability awareness training, ADA consulting, etc. | | Community Guide Certificate Training Program, University of Georgia
A program which teaches participants the basic roles and responsibilities of being a Community Guide. A community guide is a person that works with an individual with a disability to help with the process of self-directing services and supports. | | Developmental Disabilities Online
Online Coursework, Certificate of Completion in DD, and Associate of Science degree for direct support and other professionals. | | Developmental Disabilities Training Institute
A training and technical assistance agency in North Carolina | | Direct Support Professional Association of Minnesota (DSPAM)
DSPAM is made up of volunteers from across the state of Minnesota embracing the mission and goals of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP). | | DisabilityTraining.Com
Distributes 500 resources on major disability subjects. Our award-winning videos and CDs range from Advocacy, Assistive Technology and Autism ... to Learning and Physical Disabilities, Parenting, Special Education and Staff Development.
| | DSW Resource Center
This federal resource center provides expert information about direct support workforce. It includes databases of materials, technical experts, training tools and a clearinghouse of information. | | Empowerment Network Unlimited, Inc.
Empowerment Network Unlimited, Inc. is a private non-profit corporation that value-based information, training, grant writing, and other services to help people with disabilities and those supporting them to pursue inclusive lifestyles. | | Family Quality of Life Survey
This is a survey that addresses family quality of life and helps families or family support personnel identifiy family strengths and priorities for support. | | International Mentoring Association
Agency offering support of effective mentoring programs and practices for all types of settings. | | Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.'s Online Training Site
Online training courses developed for various areas within the Human Service field including working with individuals with developmental disabilities. | | Kansans Educating and Empowering Persons with Developmental Disabilities
A statewide training program for direct support professionals that addresses supporting personal health and community presence for persons with disabilities. | | Last Passages: Sharing Information and Promising Practices to Enhance End-of-Life Care for People with Developmental Disabilities
A project with mterial for caregivers to persons with developmental disabilities who are very ill, or near the end of life. | | Life & Leadership Coaching
Danyetta Najoli provides life coaching to help managers and DSPs build leadership skills. | | Life and Career Model Program through the Arc of Delaware County
A program that gives Direct Support Professionals a career ladder. As they move up the ladder DSPs build new skills, take on new responsibilities, and make more money. | | Mental health fact sheet
This fact sheet is about noticing mental health challenges in people who have ntellectual disabilities. | | Neighbours Inc. Consulting and Training Services
Neighbours Inc. is an innovative non-profit organization created specifically to support people with disabilities and their families in choosing and designing a life for themselves within their local towns and neighborhoods. | | North Dakota Statewide Developmental Disabilities Staff Training Program
A statewide training program for community-based staff offering comprehensive yet flexible training . . . | | Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation (OTAC)
This agency promotes community inclusion for seniors and people with disabilities. It provides a variety of training and technical assistance for person-centered supports. | | PLAN Institute
PLAN Institute provides training, consultation, research and publications on the values, concepts and actions of caring citizens, particularly as they relate to persons with disabilities.
| | Positive Approaches Institute
An eight day training workshop teaching DSPs and others new ways to support people who use challenging behaviors. Everyone learns to think about why people use these, and positive ways to help them stop. | | Program Development Associates
A company that develops and sells many different training materials | | S.A.F.E.T.Y. First: Working Together for Safer Communities
S.A.F.E.T.Y. First is a program that provides practical personal and organizational planning recommendations for emergency situations, particularly in the workplace, for people with disabilities. | | SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities. | | Social Role Valorization Implementation Project
This group shares information about Social Role Valorization, a method to help people have good lives. It has a website, provides training and publishes a journal. | | STARS: Specialized Training for Associates in Rural Settings
A basic staff training curriculum developed in Alaska for direct support professionals serving infants and young children, and their families. | | The National Association of QDDPs
A resource for networking and addressing issues that concern QDDPs today. | | Training & Development Services
An agency in the state of Washington that provides a wide range of seminars, classes and consultation for agencies and staff serving those with disabilities. | | Training Resource Network
This publisher has many interesting books, manuals, and videos to encourage quality employment and full community inclusion for persons with developmental disabilities. | | Training, consultation, and executive level recruitment services for disability agencies
This group helps agencies to find good workers to hire, provide better staff training, and become better able to support people with disabilities. It can help agencies to find and train staff at all levels, including DSP's, supervisors, and directors. | | Universal Enhancement
A training program for direct service professionals. It shows staff how to help people they support to build friendships with others in their community. Universal Enhancement reminds staff that their job is to help people have the kind of life they want. | | Vision for EQuality Inc.
Vision for EQuality, Inc. is a parent-founded, Pennsylvania-based non-profit that supplies training, advocacy, quality of life monitoring, and support to thousands of people with disabilities and their families each year. | | We Care A Lot Foundation
The We Care A Lot Foundation sponsors many self-groups and activities in Northern California. These include People First, Pathfinders, Respect Yourself, and many more. Please visit the website for more details. |
Online Forums
| Citizen-Centered Leadership Development
This is a training program about helping people with disabilities become full citizens of the communities where they live. | | DisabilityTraining.Com
Distributes 500 resources on major disability subjects. Our award-winning videos and CDs range from Advocacy, Assistive Technology and Autism ... to Learning and Physical Disabilities, Parenting, Special Education and Staff Development.
| | Training Resource Network online learning
These are web based courses for DSPs on a variety of topics. Some are scheduled while others are available on demand. |
Other
| Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series
A community education program about state-of-the-art practices for people with developmental disabilities. | | Developmental Disabilities Online
Online Coursework, Certificate of Completion in DD, and Associate of Science degree for direct support and other professionals. | | Emergency Response Preparedness Self-Assessment Instrument
A tool that helps state officials think about how well their emergency or disaster plans address the needs of people with disabilities | | John Raffaele
John is a an experienced educator, trainer, and dynamic public speaker in the field of human services, specializing in Direct Support Ethics and Standardized Competencies. | | Linda Perry
Linda has over 35 years experience in supporting people with disabilities. She is the Executive Director of the Vela Microboard Association. | | Nerf's Up!
An inclusive team-building game that is tons of fun! | | Personal Care Attendant Training Program
A 40-hour curriculum that teaches very important care, communication and behavioral skills. Includes 15 DVSs and 21 copies of 3 different textbooks. Details available at www.medifecta.com | | SHADE Consulting Ltd Sexual Health and Disability Education
This organization provides workshops and technical assistance to administrators, DSPs, parents, and support teams in the area of sexuality and people with disabilities. | | The Community Support Skill Standards (CSSS) For Direct Service Workers in Human Services
A set of important skills for staff who support people in community human service settings. | | Web-based articles onIntellectual Disabilities:
These explain what intellectual disabilities are and how best to support and advocate for people who have them. | | WSA International: Consultation and training to support people with Dual Diagnosis
WSA International offers training, coaching and technical assistance to individuals, government programs and agencies on supporting individuals with a dual diagnosis |
People Who Can Help
| Bob Jones
I am an instructor in the two-year Disability and Community Support program at Red River College College. I have been involved over the last two years with a group of people conducting "retreats" under the general title; "Developing and Sustaining Lead... | | Dave Hingsburger & Diverse City Press
Dave is a consultant in the area of sexuality and problematic behaviour. Diverse City Press is his publishing house specializing in these issues. | | Howard J. Miller, PhD
Effective facilitator of learning and behavior change for people serving people at every level from top management up to direct care. Extraordinarily strong focus on self-advocacy as THE solution for problems companies serving people might encounter in... | | Jerry Smith
I produce documentary films and training programs in support of people with disabilities and their allies. Please visit our website to view sample movies. | | Michael Dillon
Most of my work has been with individuals with severe disabilities. I worked to create more effective and satisfying support alternatives to the institution. I have worked directly and as a consultant to several states and courts in issues related to t... | | Ric Crowley
MACROW provides consultation in system change technical asistance and training based on the principles of self-determination at the local, conty and state levels.Quality assurance and individual outcomes are priority areas. | | Sheryl Larson
Sheryl Larson, Ph.D., is an internationally known expert in the areas of staff recruitment and retention, and workforce development. She is a Research Associate at the Institute on Community Integration and the Research Director for the Research and... |
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