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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 with developmental disabilities in their homes, requiring many more "Direct Support Professionals." ...

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 individuals with disabilities. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Northeast Arc DSPs have worked tireles...

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 Maine's most vulnerable populations are stepping up their appeal for state funding -- in the form of higher wages and more supplies of Personal Protective Equipment.      They're called  Direct Support Professionals -- or D-S-P's -- and t...

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. Brandon works at the Potomac Center Birch Lane Group Home. This is what was said about Brandon in his nomi...

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 classrooms and from the teachers? >> textbooks that are so old they don't even mention 9/11. broken chairs, ...