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Impact: Feature Issue on Direct Support Workforce Development

Center:

MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2012

Contact Information:

Publications Office
[email protected]
612-624-4512

Product Description:

For many people with disabilities, life in their communities is influenced by the availability of qualified, reliable Direct Support staff. The Direct Support workforce is made up of people whose skills, knowledge, and commitment equip them to assist individuals with disabilities in maintaining health, self-determination, and community participation. That workforce and the supports it provides is in jeopardy today because the demand and need for such services is outgrowing the pool of individuals willing and able to fill those essential positions. The articles in this Impact describe how DSP workforce issues are being addressed across the country to ensure that individuals with disabilities continue to have access to the supports they need to live lives of their choosing in their local communities.

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Product/Publication Type(s):

Newsletters

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

Alternative Format:

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/202/default.html

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