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TRAINING E73: Solutions to Address the DSP Shortage

TRAINING E73: Solutions to Address the DSP Shortage
Sep 28, 2023 · 22m 47s

Featuring Pascale Adou from the Department of Healthcare and Financing (HCPF)’s Direct Care Workforce Collaborative • Strategies in addressing the shortage; • Approaches to successful DSP recruitment; and • How...

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Featuring Pascale Adou from the Department of Healthcare and Financing (HCPF)’s Direct Care Workforce Collaborative
• Strategies in addressing the shortage;
• Approaches to successful DSP recruitment; and
• How to get involved in making change.

Timestamps:
  • 2:15 – Refresher on the reasons behind the DSP shortage
  • 6:20 – Strategies to address the shortage
  • 13:00 – Recruiting DSPs right now
  • 15:45 – Getting involved in making change for DSPs
  • 20:50 – Change will come and Appreciation for DSPs, final thoughts from Pascale Adou
Quality Direct Support Professionals (DSP) are vital to the lives of people with disabilities. They are the professionals that provide supports such as helping with employment, providing personal care, and are sometimes the support that someone with a disability needs to be able to live independently. A shortage of DSPs has been mounting in the United States for years now, with a 2022 report finding that 71% of case managers are struggling to find available providers for direct support services. With DSPs being such a vital workforce, tune into Addressing the Direct Support Professional Shortage TRAINING series, to learn more about the challenges and solutions!

Why you should tune in
Understand the everyday lives of Direct Support Professionals and the need to support this essential workforce. Being a DSP is not just a job, but a skilled career and must be valued as such! Tune into this podcast/vodcast series to learn about the variables behind this workforce crisis and how you can get involved in the solutions.
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