Proud and Supported: LGBTQ+ Trainings for DSP's
Grantee: National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP)
Project Goal:
This project will provide Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) with knowledge, experience, and training to better work with people with developmental disabilities who identify as LGBTQ+.
Project Summary:
As part of this 3-year initiative, NADSP will develop an LGBTQ training for DD support staff (i.e. care managers), conduct statewide outreach and hold regional trainings related to supporting LGBTQ individuals with DD. NADSP will coordinate trainings and implement educational opportunities that focus on increasing staff capacity to work with individuals with IDD who identify as LGBTQ. Planned events will include informational and/or educational sessions, forums, organization presentations, and opportunities for interactive engagement from individuals with IDD and direct support staff.
To learn more about this project, access resources, and see upcoming trainings visit: https://proudandsupported.org/
Key Activities:
- Develop a staff training(s) and supplemental resource materials for supporting LGBTQ individuals with IDD. Collaborate with organizations that serve LGBTQ individuals with IDD and identify local self-advocates/organizations to facilitate trainings.
- Conduct trainings across the state in urban, suburban & rural communities to expand the capacity of staff to work with LGBTQ individuals with IDD, including people from racially, ethnically and geographically diverse communities.
- Train a minimum of 150 staff and other professionals in the IDD field.
- Create training materials that can be used to conduct LGBTQ staff trainings beyond the life of the grant.
- Compile a final Sustainability Plan for the CDD, which includes identification of specific strategies to sustain the training beyond the life of the grant.
Project Details:
Total Funding: $450,000
Project Length: 3 Years
Contract Start: July 2021
Geographic Reach: Statewide
Current Status: Complete