Resources
Guides, reports, and more to help you elevate the status of DSPsThe National Alliance For Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) has compiled a number of resources to assist direct support professionals, people receiving services, family members, human service organizations, state/national associations, and more. These include guides, reports, toolkits, and more that cover a variety of topics related to the direct support professional workforce.
Code of Ethics
The NADSP Code of Ethics is intended to serve as a straightforward and relevant guide for DSPs as they resolve the ethical dilemmas they face every day.
Competency Areas
The NADSP Competency Areas offer DSPs the opportunity to address challenges, work on issues identified by the person they support, or assist someone in pursuing a goal.
Webinar: NADD & NADSP Summer Webinar Series: Session 5: One Step Ahead: Being a Trauma Responsive Supervisor in Crazy Times
In this final webinar, we shift our focus to frontline supervisors. These have been stressful times for finding and keeping ...
Webinar: NADD & NADSP Summer Webinar Series: Session 4: Wings of the Bird: Everyday Brain-Body Practices for Healing, Resilience and Self-Care
In this session we’ll pull the threads of the previous sessions together. Our emphasis will be practical, researched and brain-based ...
Webinar: NADD & NADSP Summer Webinar Series: Session 3: Dangerous Empathy: Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Empathetic Distress
Burnout and compassion fatigue in helpers are bigger problems today than at maybe any other time in recent history. People ...
Webinar: NADD & NADSP Summer Webinar Series: Session 2: Safe, Connected, and In Control: Trauma Responsive Care, Part Two
In this session we build on the material from week one. Trauma Responsive Care a research-based approach to trauma. Using ...
Webinar: NADD & NADSP Summer Webinar Series: Session 1: Beyond Trauma-Informed: Trauma Responsive Care, Part One
In this session we look at the basics of trauma. We’ll explore how having a disability or multiple life stressors ...
Webinar: Black DSPs Matter:Part Three – Practical Application
Through a multimedia approach, the Black DSPs Matter: Part Three webinar invites participants to: Revisit shared understanding of key terms ...
2021 Virtual Event: From Promise To Progress
Schedule Become A SponsorCurrent SponsorsAbout The 2021 Virtual Event From September 12th – 15th, NADSP and the Research and Training ...
Remembering Dave Hingsburger
It is with deep sadness to share with the disability community that our friend and colleague Dave Hingsburger suddenly passed ...
NADSP E-Badge Earner of the Month: Tracy Holsapple
Congratulations to Tracy Holsapple who has been selected as the NADSP E-Badge Academy Earner of the Month for July of ...
Webinar: Let’s Talk with Dave Hingsburger and John Raffaele: I am Not Your Inspiration
Dave Hingsburger and John Raffaele will have a conversation about the important message from the late, great Stella Young. Stella, ...
Frontline Initiative: DSPs Respond To Crisis
Direct support professionals (DSPs) have been through a lot this past year. Through a global pandemic, natural disasters, social unrest, ...
International Journal: One Candle: Finding Hope in the Darkness of a Pandemic
We have lost a lot but, in place of those losses, we have also gained, and I think we have ...
