Frontline Initiative

A series covering the issues important to DSPs and supervisors

Frontline Initiative is a newsletter published since 1996 that covers issues important to Direct Support Professionals and Frontline Supervisors who support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and other disabilities in a variety of community settings. Each edition contains resources, perspectives, and strategies to advance the profession of direct support. Examples of topics covered in Frontline Initiative are person-centered practices, trauma-informed care, and DSP recognition.

Frontline Initiative: DSPs Respond to COVID-19

Direct support professionals (DSPs) have endured so much since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We dedicated this issue to ...
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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, ...
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Frontline Initiative: Making A Career In Direct Support

This issue of Frontline Initiative is about making a career in direct support. Direct support professionals (DSPs) report on why ...
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Frontline Initiative: Supporting Healthy Relationships

This issue of Frontline Initiative focuses on developing awareness, knowledge, and skills for supporting healthy relationships. It also includes information ...
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Frontline Initiative: Self-Care For DSPs

A newsletter issue promoting self-care for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). To assist the people they support, DSPs must also take ...
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Frontline Initiative: The Changing Roles of the DSP

A newsletter issue recognizing the changing role of the Direct Support Professional (DSP). This issue highlights public policies that can ...
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Frontline Initiative: Choice, Direction, and Control

A newsletter issue for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) encouraging the people they support to exercise choice, direction, and control over ...
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Frontline Initiative: Person-Centered Practices

A newsletter issue for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) exploring person-centered practices. This issue of Frontline Initiative brought together voices on ...
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Frontline Initiative: Trauma-Informed Care

A newsletter issue for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) exploring trauma-informed care. This issue of Frontline Initiative provides background information on ...
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Frontline Initiative: Archived Editions

Frontline Initiative is a series covering the issues important to direct support professionals and supervisors who support people with intellectual ...
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Frontline Initiative: DSPs rRespond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Direct support professionals (DSPs) have been through a lot this past year. Through a global pandemic, natural disasters, social unrest, ...
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Advance Professional Development

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.

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