Frontline Initiative: Choice, Direction, and Control

Jun 1, 2017 | Frontline Initiative, Guides

A newsletter issue for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) encouraging the people they support to exercise choice, direction, and control over their lives. DSPs also support people who have relationships with guardians or who utilize supported decision-making. This issue of Frontline Initiative includes important, accessible information for DSPs on these topics.

Frontline Initiative is a series covering the issues important to direct support professionals and supervisors who support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and other disabilities in a variety of community settings. Each feature issue contains resources, perspectives, and strategies to advance the profession of direct support.

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The National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) has created a number of curricula options to help human service providers bring the ideals and approaches of NADSP into their organization.