You and your staff broaden the world of possibilities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, ensuring each person lives their best life possible. The College of Direct Support has the training your organization needs to help your support staff make life in the community a priority for the people they support.
DirectCourse College of Direct Support (CDS) content is developed by the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota, leading experts in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. The College of Direct Support Editorial Board is comprised of subject matter experts who review and contribute to the development of courses to ensure that every course for direct support professionals offers leading insight and nationally recognized best practices. With CDS, you can trust that you’re providing your staff with the most recent, most trusted information available.
We deliver our content through Elsevier Performance Manager, a premier learning management tool. The platform enables learners to access courses online at any time, and it allows training supervisors to add customized content so you can integrate training into everyone’s current workflow. Elsevier Performance Manager enables learners to meet training objectives at their own pace, empowering team leaders to mitigate risk, demonstrate compliance and improve the learning process of every staff member.
By combining the latest research, competency-based training and an advanced learning management tool, we’ve built an outstanding interactive training solution. Instead of being a burden, training your direct support staff can be a natural part of your current workflow.
That’s our mission. We want to give you everything your organization needs so you can educate your staff, enrich their knowledge and help them inspire everyone they work with on a daily basis.