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Credit: The Arc Baltimore Area organizations that support people with developmental disabilities are facing a major hiring crisis, made significantly worse by the coronavirus pandemic. The Arc Baltimore is hiring as many direct support professionals as it can. COVID-19 forced it to close many of its day and employment services last March. The Arc Baltimore then began 24/7 support for individuals ...

Philanthropists donate to Northeast Arc Community Content North Shore philanthropists Julie Rainer Cummings, of Swampscott, and Steven P. Rosenthal, of Marblehead, have donated a combined $55,000 to Northeast Arc.  The donation will allow the agency to provide year-end recognition to hundreds of Direct Support Professionals who worked with individuals diagnosed with COVID-19. These DSPs work in Northeast Arc’s 30-plus residential homes across the North Shore, providing hands-on care for ind...

Direct Support Professionals who care for the elderly and disabled are leaving for better paying jobs. Author: Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 7:01 PM EST December 31, 2020 Updated: 7:13 PM EST December 31, 2020 BRUNSWICK, Maine — Calling it a dire situation -- providers who care for some of Maines most vulnerable populations are stepping up their appeal for state funding -- in the form of higher wages and more supplies of Personal P...

Potomac Center honors Support Professionals of Year Mineral Daily News-Tribune ROMNEY - The Potomac Center of Romney is West Virginia’s only residential facility for the state’s most challenging children and adults with an intellectual or developmental disability. Annually it honors three of its direct support professionals who are chosen are a second runner up, first runner up and most prestigiously the Direct Support Professional of the Year. This year’s winner was Brandon Walsh. Brando...

Incredible amount of teacher activism across the country, west virginia, kentucky, arizona, here in oklahoma. do you have the stamina, the resolve to keep going? can you afford to keep going? >> we are the lowest paid teachers in the country right now. but absolutely. our teachers will be here, our support professionals will be here, our community is behind us. we have got to get this done for the sake of our kids. >> a few seconds what are some of the worst things you heard here in the classroo...

Here. we have video of -- i think it is a chair that somebody sent from the oklahoma teachers -- from one of the schools there. its broken. im assuming this is a chair that they require students to sit in every day. is this common for what you see? or is this an exaggeration of what you are dealing with in your school system? >> its unfortunately common. weve been cut over 28% in the last ten years in education funding. and our schools just cant maintain all of the supplies, instructional materi...

Administrations. the contract costs cover entire range of support including accomodations for military, communications secret service staff and other support professionals. security experts are required to travel in advance of the presidents or vice president safety and security are not negotiatable. we saw earlier this week another story about half a million dollar hotel bill for the vice president in london. the reason for that high amount, it is safety. jamie. jamie: peter doocy live in washi...

Boarded air force two. this is different trip that he took last week to attend the installation mass for the pope at the vatican. jenna. jenna: every administration takes these sort of trips. they havent normally happened during a time of sequester which is something new. has the state department explained what costs so much money? >> reporter: they have, jenna. it takes a lot of people and a lot of vehicles to keep american leaders safe overseas. the state department official e-mailed me this m...