Virtual Training: The Importance of Reflecting on Direct Support Skills as a Daily Practice
Direct support professionals engage daily with individuals, providing crucial assessments, crisis prevention, and support for health and wellness, among other skill-based actions. Often, these tasks are performed without adequate reflection on their inherent competence. It is essential for professionals to regularly connect their actions with their professional mission and role through reflection.
Our certification process inherently requires direct support professionals to reflect on their ethical decisions. Each work sample submitted for credit prompts an explanation of how it aligns with the NADSP Code of Ethics, integral to the receiving certification and recognizing competency.
This virtual training aims to explore how direct support professionals and frontline supervisors can effectively utilize the NADSP Code of Ethics and competencies as tools for ongoing reflection and evaluation beyond credentialing. Continuous self-reflection is crucial for professional evolution and growth. Using the NADSP Code of Ethics and direct support skills as benchmarks for professional development not only benefits professionals but also enhances outcomes for the individuals they support and contributes to their own job satisfaction.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
12:00pm – 2:00pm ET
$89 per Non-Member Attendee
$79 per NADSP Member Attendee – Use your Member password to receive 10% off registration
Learning Objectives
- Connect the practice of professional reflection to the advancement of professional development.
- Explore the NADSP Code of Ethics as the primary source of reflection and measure in the certification of direct support professionals as awarded in the NADSP E-Badge Academy.
- Enhance the skills and ethical practice of direct support professionals by teaching reflective exercises and processes using the NADSP Code of Ethics and competencies beyond the credentialing/certification requirements for professional reflection.
Target Audience
This training is designed to include individuals at all levels of an organization including but not limited to: DSPs, Supervisors and Administrators.
All registered attendees will receive a certificate of participation for their time. This training will be presented via Zoom. Once this registration is completed, a confirmation link will come from Zoom and Authorize.Net with your receipt.
If an attendee requires a reasonable accommodation for this training, please email NADSP Directior of Communications and Programs, Nicole DamaPoleto at ndama@nadsp.org by August 9, 2024. If you have any additional questions, please email ndama@nadsp.org.
Participate In This Training
Click the link below to register via JotForms. Once completed, a confirmation email will be sent to all attendees.
Presenters
John Raffaele
Director of Educational Services
John Raffaele is the Director of Educational Services for the NADSP. John is a Master Social Worker and a highly experienced professional adult educator and facilitator.
Biography
John’s graduate education is from Yeshiva University in New York City and State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. His career spans three decades and those years have been spent teaching direct support professionals and the people they support. Most of the people with whom he has worked and supported over the last 30 years are people with intellectual/developmental disabilities and at-risk youth, and people with chronic and terminal illnesses in home-care settings. Between 2001 and 2012 John worked as a Director of Training and Education for a developmental disabilities service provider in New York and gained notoriety consulting and teaching throughout the United States. John founded his own international direct support professional consulting company in 2012 and over the last several years, in contract with the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals and in close partnership with NADSP Executive Director Joseph Macbeth, has developed many exciting and informative training programs and helped propel the NADSP into national prominence. John became NADSP’s Director of Educational Services in December of 2016. John has educated tens of thousands of people in the NADSP Code of Ethics and Competencies and most recently, our Informed Decision Making curriculum and Frontline Supervisor Train the Trainer Curriculum.
Dan Hermreck
Director of Certification & Accreditation
Dan Hermreck is the Director of Certification & Accreditation for the NADSP. He has worked as an educator various settings, but since 2002 he has focused on teaching DSPs, Frontline Supervisors and others.
Biography
Dan has been involved in direct support workforce development and advocacy issues at both the state and national level. In 2008, Dan served as the primary skills mentor to the first three DSPs to earn national certification through NADSP, and he was the instructor for a community college class that resulted in the first nationally certified frontline supervisors in 2015. He is able to draw on this experience to assist DSPs and frontline supervisors pursuing national certification as well as employers who are implementing certification programs. More recently he has been part of the 2016 revision of the NADSP Code of Ethics and the development of NADSP’s E-badge Academy.
Participate In This Training
Click the link below to register via JotForms. Once completed, a confirmation email will be sent to all attendees.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I purchase multiple registrations at once?
Yes, we have updated our registration to include multiple registrations. You can purchase up to 10 registrations at once.
What do I need for this training?
For this training, attendees will need access to Zoom and a reliable internet connection. Please not there will be breakout rooms for small group exercises.
Will this training be recorded for those who cannot attend?
This training will be conducted completely live. Attendees who have to cancel must do so before the start of the webinar to receive a refund.
Will I receive a certificate for my attendance?
Yes. All registered attendees will receive a certificate at the conclusion of the training.
Will this training count towards my Accredited Training hours?
Will this webinar be closed captioned?
Yes. All attendees will have the option on their zoom screen to enable live captions. If an attendee requires a reasonable accommodation for this training, please email NADSP Office and Communications Manager, Nicole Dama at ndama@nadsp.org by August 9, 2024..
Who should I contact if I have additional questions?
If you have any additional questions on the content of the training, you can email NADSP’s Director of Educational Services, John Raffaele at jraffaele@nadsp.org.
If you have questions about registration, please email NADSP’s Chief Operating Officer, Desiree Loucks Baer at dloucksbaer@nadsp.org.