Frontline Initiative
A series covering the issues important to DSPs and supervisorsFrontline 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.
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Frontline Initiative: DSPs Supporting Peoples’ Employment
This issue of Frontline Initiative is on direct support professionals (DSPs) supporting people’s employment. Many people with disabilities experience barriers ...
Frontline Initiative: The Diverse Voices of Direct Support Professionals
This issue includes diverse voices among direct support professionals (DSPs). It is about listening and broadening our understanding of lesser-heard ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frontline Initiative: Archived Editions
Frontline Initiative is a series covering the issues important to direct support professionals and supervisors who support people with intellectual ...
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, ...
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.