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Providing health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities requires understanding multiple factors and numerous challenges.
For IDD service providers, improving the supervisory skills of their qualified intellectual disability professionals (QIDPs) is an essential part of any DSP retention strategy.
The average turnover rate for direct support professionals (DSPs) at organizations that provide services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is 45%. Here are the some of the reasons why.
What do you look for when interviewing DSP candidates? I’ve asked that question of providers across the country, and the same characteristics come up again and again...
Your Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) are especially susceptible to compassion fatigue and it can lead to your most caring and committed DSPs leaving the job.
Shouldn’t we invest in DSPs’ knowledge, competency-based skills and professional values that lead to credentials and career ladders
Video modeling is one way IDD providers can use technology to help the individuals they serve learn new skills and gain independence.
Once a new employee is hired and onboarded, assessments can provide important insights into their competencies, knowledge, skills, and characteristics.
One tool for decreasing turnover is personnel assessments, which can help you hire better employees and retain your best employees.
The holidays are a great opportunity to make your DSPs. feel appreciated. Showing appreciation can go a long way in boosting employee morale and retention.
Like any other initiative, the keys to creating a successful peer mentoring program include building buy-in and determining how you will evaluate effectiveness.
By 2020, it is estimated that the number of individuals with ID/DD in need of residential in-home and day supports is expected to rise from an estimated 1,015,000 in 2003 to 1,400,000 in 2020, an increase of about 38%.
From the devastation of 2017’s major hurricanes to the mass evacuations following fires of the Midwest, disasters disrupt continuity of, ....
October marks National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and the theme for 2017 is “Inclusion Drives Innovation,” reports the U.S., ....
