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Elvin Alvarez is not your typical 26 year old. Ask anyone at Miami Cerebral Palsy (MCP) Residential Services about him and you’ll quickly learn that this young Colombian is a star, a rock-solid Direct Support Professional(DSP) who also is now a Residential Services Coordinator. Part of his job is to train others to become DSPs. He’s that good!
Alexandria, VA — ANCOR, the American Network of Community Options and Resources, is seeking nominations for its 6th Annual Direct Support Professional Recognition Award competition. The association will select an award recipient from each state and the District of Columbia, and a national recipient, from among the nation’s most accomplished Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). DSPs are the frontline workers who support people with disabilities as they lead productive, meaningful lives.
“DSPs do amazing work every day, helping people with disabilities enjoy lives that are defined by their dreams and aspirations, instead of being limited by their disabilities,” said ANCOR CEO Reneé L. Pietrangelo. “We feel it is important to honor their dedication and personal sacrifice on behalf of the individuals they serve.”
The DSP Recognition Award competition, which began in 2007, is part of ANCOR’s National Advocacy Campaign, an effort to ensure a healthy DSP workforce through higher wages, better training, and increased public awareness. ANCOR also sponsors Direct Support Professional Recognition Week, designated by the U.S. Senate, each year in September.
Since the competition began, ANCOR has received more than 1,500 nominations for this recognition. All nominees receive a certificate of appreciation from ANCOR.
Organizations and individuals are encouraged to nominate deserving individuals. For instructions and online nomination, visit the National Advocacy Campaign’s website at www.youneedtoknowme.org, or follow this link: http://www.ancor.org/news/2011/12/2012-direct-support-professional-recognition-contest.
The deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday, February 8.
ANCOR will announce the recipients of the state and national awards at ANCOR’s 2012 Conference: Leading Cultures of Innovation and Advocacy, which takes place May 6 – 8 in Washington, DC. The national winner will be invited to attend the conference at ANCOR’s expense.
About ANCOR. The American Network of Community Options and Resources is a national trade association representing more than 800 private providers of community living and employment supports and services to more than 400,000 individuals with disabilities. As a nonprofit organization, ANCOR successfully addresses the needs and interests of private providers before Congress and federal agencies, continually advocating for the crucial role private providers play in enhancing and supporting the lives of people with disabilities and their families. Through its National Advocacy Campaign, ANCOR seeks to obtain the resources to recruit, train and retain a sustainable direct support workforce. ANCOR provides organization, professional, leadership development and networking opportunities and services, and is continually working toward partnerships and collaborations that advance our vision, mission and goals. Our prime goal is to be the indispensable leader, resource and advocate for a diverse private disability services network that ensures full citizenship and engaged community participation for people with disabilities of all ages. www.ancor.org.
The Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development is an online educational and performance management tool that administrators use to train and communicate with their employees. Each month a different Elsevier Performance Management Tool will be highlighted in the Admin Corner. This month we will focus on the Discussion tool.
Discussion is a tool that can be used for both training and organizational related activities where you want to discuss or exchange ideas related to a prescribed activity. Discussions can be used for a variety of reasons; examples include facilitating learning objectives and organization wide collaboration such as a policy review. Administrators with the Discussion privilege can act as the Moderator of the discussion or they can assign the Discussion privilege to another administrator. Moderators manage Discussions by responding to and/or editing each participant’s posts. You can elect to grade each learner’s response just like you would in a classroom setting where participation is part of the learner’s grade.
ATLANTA, December 8, 2011 – The College of Direct Support(CDS), an online curriculum for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) and managed in collaboration with Elsevier/MCStrategies and the University of Minnesota’s Research and Training Center on Community Living, is pleased to announce that the NADSP Competency Set is now recognized on the Department of Labor (DOL) Competency Model for Long-Term Care Supports & Services. This is the first Tier 5 Competency Set that has been built into the model.
If the three most important factors in real estate are location, location, location, then the three most important factors in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities must be inclusion, inclusion, inclusion. Apple Patch strives to provide the array of support services needed to help each individual be included and personally succeed in all aspects of their lives.
