Exceptional Direct Care Training
DirectCourse provides standardized, tailored online training to empower direct support professionals and their mission to help others lead meaningful lives within their communities. With DirectCourse, you can provide easily accessible, evidence-based content for your staff training to help improve organization efficiencies.
Our mission: Educate. Enrich. Inspire.
“We identified all the skills and competencies that direct support professionals need to have, and then we developed DirectCourse to respond to those competencies. The workers who are trained using it feel better about their jobs and are more committed and confident in their work.” — Dr. Amy Hewitt, founder of DirectCourse
What people say about DirectCourse
“The curricula addresses the competencies and skills that Direct Support Professionals need to have to provide high quality support and help people with disabilities be active and valued members of our communities.” — Administrator for the state of New Jersey
“Now more than ever, online training opportunities are important in supporting the development of our providers and direct support workers in the service they provide to our communities.” — Administrator at the state of Minnesota
“Our success is greater because we have access to all five Direct Course curricula. We take lessons from all of them to customize the very best solution to a training need.” — Administrator for the state of Mississippi
Curricula built by our trusted partners
Our content is developed through long-standing partnerships with university-based research and training centers who are the most respected leaders in their fields.
Service sectors on which our content focuses includes: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health, Aging and Senior Living, Physical and Medical Challenges, Employment Supports, Person-Centered Practices, and Supervision and Management in human services.
Within each curriculum we offer training on a wide range of topic areas and within each topic area there is deep coverage of the subject matter through the offering of multiple lessons addressing a range of knowledge, skills and attitudes relating to that topic.
