BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Date: March 16\, 2021\nTime: \;4:00 - 4:45pm EST\n\n\nCOVID -19 &ndash\; Its Impact on Direct Support Professionals\n\nView the archiv ed webinar \; \;(available to members only)\n\n*AAIDD members can register and have access to the webinar archive at no cost\; however\, non -members will be charged a small fee ($10) to register for the webinars.\n \nThis webinar is jointly hosted by AAIDD and the AAIDD Direct Support Pro fessional Interest Network\n\nPresenter: Amy Hewitt\, PhD\, FAAIDD\, Unive rsity of Minnesota \nDirect Support Professionals (DSPs) provide long term services and supports to people with intellectual disabilities in a wide variety of settings &ndash\; individual/family homes\, community programs\ , worksites\, group homes\, and larger facilities. These workers have many critically important roles. \; Throughout the pandemic they have risk ed their lives to deliver needed supports to people and often were put in the situation of potentially infecting their own families due to their wor k. Despite their importance\, in most states this group of employees is no t clearly identified as essential workers. This webinar will share new res earch findings from the University of Minnesota&rsquo\;s Research and Trai ning Center on Community Living regarding a 6 month follow up study on the effects of COVID-19 on this important workforce and strategies that are h elpful to best supporting them. Implications of the findings of this longi tudinal study will be shared and discussed by participants. \nObjectives:\ n\n Identify key challenges experienced by Direct Support Professionals as they provided supports to people with intellectual and developmental d isabilities during COVID19.\n Identify at least three strategies that D SPs find helpful to them while working during a pandemic.\n Identify ch anges in expectations\, support and exposures to COVID19 at 9 months compa red to 2-3 months into the pandemic.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n DTEND:20210316T204500Z DTSTAMP:20260419T105256Z DTSTART:20210316T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:COVID-19 – Its Impact on Direct Support Professionals UID:RFCALITEM639121783767557705 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Date: March 16\, 2021
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COVID-19 &ndash\; Its Impact on Direct Support Professionals

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\nView the archived webinar \; \;(available to membe rs only)
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\n*AAIDD members can register and ha ve access to the webinar archive at no cost\; however\, non-members will b e charged a small fee ($10) to register for the webinars.
\n\nThis webinar is jointly hosted by AAIDD and the AAIDD Direct Support Professional Interest Network
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Presenter: Amy Hewitt\, PhD\, FAAIDD\, Uni versity of Minnesota

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Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) provide long term se rvices and supports to people with intellectual disabilities in a wide var iety of settings &ndash\; individual/family homes\, community programs\, w orksites\, group homes\, and larger facilities. These workers have many cr itically important roles. \; Throughout the pandemic they have risked their lives to deliver needed supports to people and often were put in the situation of potentially infecting their own families due to their work. Despite their importance\, in most states this group of employees is not c learly identified as essential workers. This webinar will share new resear ch findings from the University of Minnesota&rsquo\;s Research and Trainin g Center on Community Living regarding a 6 month follow up study on the ef fects of COVID-19 on this important workforce and strategies that are help ful to best supporting them. Implications of the findings of this longitud inal study will be shared and discussed by participants.

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  2. Identify at least three strategies that DSPs find he lpful to them while working during a pandemic.
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  3. Identify changes in expec tations\, support and exposures to COVID19 at 9 months compared to 2-3 mon ths into the pandemic.
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