Welcome to the Direct Care Professional Network!

Thanks for stopping by.

Our mission here is to provide modern, freshly updated and honest materials to use to further enhance their work and skillsets of DSPs and those who manage them.

We want to share with you unique and awesome ways to work. To help people. To support clients and residents.

Who are We?

We are a group of DSPs who have collective experiences and wisdom that we want to share with people who care about this work.

What is a DSP?
Direct Support Professional, also known as personal care assistants, caregivers, home health or personal care aides, residential counselors and CNAs give assistance to people who are sick, injured, mentally or physically disabled, or the elderly and fragile. DSPs provides a variety of supports to people with disabilities in their homes or on the job. DSPs need skills and knowledge to do their job correctly and they also need good strong supervision to ensure they stay engaged and dedicated.

There is a DSP crisis and we firmly believe that one of major reasons for this is the overall lack of respect of, understanding and knowledge of skills required to do this work. Low pay rates, sub par benefit packages and non-supportive management practices are also a big part of the crisis.

We do not accept advertisements on this site, nor do we endorse products. We will review books/web sites/materials when asked and provide a written article free of charge. The materials here are written by DSPs for DSPs. These are not professional articles, just from-the-heart knowledge we want to share. All materials here are free to use, but not for reproduction on other websites. Again, thanks for stopping by!