Webinars Carefully Designed for Busy
Direct Support Professionals
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Each month, the NADSP offers several engaging and informative webinars that are built to expand the knowledge and skill sets of the direct support and frontline supervisory workforces. These are not your typical webinars, they're lively discussions that pull from some of North America's best minds in contemporary topics to support people with disabilities in community-based settings and lead to improving direct support practice standards.
We encourage you to share and join these opportunities.
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Special Encore Broadcast!
NADSP Learning Annex Webinar
Special Guest: Michael Steinbruck
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Creating Person Centered Plans WITH People Using the NADSP Competencies
Date and Time
May 25, 2018 2pm EST
May 30, 2018 2pm EST
Description
When a direct support professional works in a person centered way they utilize the NADSP Competencies. Michael Steinbruck, the Executive Director of The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices (TLCPCP), will discuss how direct support professionals can best incorporate the 15 competency areas into dynamic person centered support practice and their obligation to work with the person & their team to facilitate change when things just aren't working.
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Michael Steinbruck, MA is the Executive Director of TLCPCP. It is a part-time contracted position. Mr. Steinbruck’s full-time job is PCAST Project Leader at The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities. His programmatic focus is on developing the
Person Centered Approaches in Schools and Transition (PCAST) project
. He leads the project’s training and technical assistance activities related to the development and delivery of person centered thinking and planning, and works with schools on implementation of person centered approaches and related organizational improvement efforts.
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NADSP Learning Annex Webinar
Special Guest: Rachel Jacob
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Direct Support Professionals: Friends or Friendly? A Deeper Look Into a Difficult Question
Date and Time
Thursday, June 7, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Description
Is it ok for a direct support professional to also be a friend? Is it a boundary that should not be crossed? Is there negative impact on people supported when "friend" direct support professionals leave their role as DSPs? What is the difference between friends and being friendly as a direct support professional. Join Rachel Jacob as she explores this controversial and complicated topic.
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Rachel Jacob is a resident of the Hudson Valley, New York and has worked in the field of Human Services since 2010. Rachel has experience as a Direct Support Professional and Frontline Manager. Currently, she works as a staff development trainer at the Arc of Ulster-Greene, where she leads the NADSP credentialing program. In addition, Rachel is the President of the Mid-Hudson Coalition, a local association that strives to strategically shape the future of human services and quality supports through the development, recruitment, retention, training and credentialing of the Direct Support Workforce.
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NADSP Learning Annex Webinar
The NADSP Frontline Supervisor
Train-the-Trainer Curriculum:
From Management to Leadership
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The Three Perspectives:
Executive, Instructor & Learner
An Introductory Webinar
This Webinar will be broadcast several times. Please Choose One
Date and Time
June 13, 2018 - 2:00-3:00 PM EST
June 27, 2018 - 2:00-3:00 PM EST
July 11, 2018 - 2:00-3:00 PM EST
July 25, 2018 - 2:00-3:00 PM EST
Description
Frontline Supervisors are the unheralded “lieutenants” in organizations that employ direct support professionals. It is, perhaps, the most complex job in a human services organization as they are charged with the responsibility to supervise, develop, lead, coach and mentor direct support staff. Frequently, those who perform this role were promoted from within the direct support ranks and may be poorly equipped and unprepared to meet the demands of leading and managing others, which will ultimately lead to DSP turnover.
The NADSP has developed a comprehensive train-the-trainer curriculum to address the needs of this important part of the workforce. This curriculum meets the educational and developmental needs of new managers, while strengthening veteran frontline supervisory staff with tools based on sound research that engages participants with an intensive and highly interactive format.
This webinar will introduce this train-the-trainer curriculum while giving three perspectives from those who have used the curriculum; an agency executive, a staff development instructor and a frontline supervisor/learner.
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Shawn Kros
is the Chief Executive Officer at The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region in Aberdeen, Maryland. She has worked at The Arc NCR for the past 15 years, serving in several capacities including Human Resources, Family Services and Treatment Foster Care. Shawn has more than 26 years of experience working in the nonprofit human services field, and is a nationally-recognized public speaker on social services issues.
Monica Robinson
started her career as a Direct Support Professional and attributes most of what she knows to the people she supported. Monica has held the position of a Frontline Supervisor and currently Staff Development Coordinator at New Horizons Resources, Inc. She is a Person Centered Thinking and Planning Trainer as well as being a Person Centered Plan Facilitator. Monica also works in partnership with five sister agencies in Dutchess and Orange County, New York. The Mid-Hudson Collaborative objective is to transition our Frontline Supervisors from managers to leaders.
Morgan Kinne
is a Residence Manager for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, located in the Red Hook, New York. Morgan began her career ten years ago as a DSP, fulfilling her passion to guide and teach individuals with developmental disabilities. Training and staff development became another component of the human services field that Morgan grew to love, influencing her into a management role in early 2017. Morgan's most recent accomplishments include successfully piloting a program based on positive behavioral approaches, and completing a Frontline Supervisor collaborative series of trainings through the NADSP.
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NADSP Learning Annex Webinar
Special Guest: Antha Flood
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Taking Care of Oneself as a Direct Support Professional: Rejuvenating Oneself and Returning to Our Mission Driven Life as a DSP.
Date and Time
Thursday, July 19, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Description
Antha Flood will take participants on a tour deep into their own selves. Too often direct support professionals report they get tired, burnt out, and suffer from "compassion fatigue". In this webinar, Antha will discuss how to administer self-care techniques. She will explore how the inner depths of the direct support professional can emotionally and psychologically be fostered and cared for. Tune out of your DSP job for an hour and TUNE IN to this excellent webinar experience.
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Antha Flood's professional career began in Human Resources as a Recruiter and, eventually, as a Human Resources Manager. From there, she went on to teach Art in the Long Island public school system for 6 years; grades K-12, including special education and alternative school populations. In 2007, Antha launched Gatehouse Arts, a company that provides private art and yoga lessons, parties, corporate events and workshops. Currently, she is the Senior Staff Trainer at Life’s WORC, a not for profit that supports developmentally disabled, and autistic individuals on Long Island. She is also a certified CQL interviewer and trainer.
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NADSP Spotlight
Annual Conference - The Fourth One
September 7th & 8th, 2018
St. Louis, Missouri
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We've got the absolute best agenda, speakers and networking opportunities for direct support professionals, frontline supervisors and provider executives! Come hear David Pitonyak, Amy Hewitt, Ronnie Polaneczky (Philly.com), Karyn Harvey, Peter Leidy and a whole lot more!!!
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National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals
844-44-NADSP ~ info@nadsp.org ~ www.nadsp.org
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