Direct Service Providers

Direct Service Provider: In-Home Care duties and responsibilities

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) are people who work directly with people with physical disabilities and/or intellectual disabilities with the aim of assisting the individual to become integrated into his/her community or the least restrictive environment.

Direct Support Professional provide:

• Services that assist individuals  in a group home, home-like settings
• They have communication skills (verbally and written) with all levels of personnel
• Provides direct care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Perform personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks
• Fosters positive relationships between caretakers and individuals served
• Ensures client safety and maintaining a safe environment
• Reminds and assists clients with self-administration of medications
• Encourages self-help activities
• Perform home management functions such as light housekeeping, laundry, bed making, and cleaning
• Assist in planning of  meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals and clean-up