Publications

A biannual magazine covering the issues important to direct support professionals and supervisors who support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and other disabilities in various community settings. Each issue contains resources, perspectives, and strategies to advance the profession of direct support.

This issue of Impact examines some of the workforce challenges in our long-term care system and their consequences for people with disabilities, direct support professionals, families, provider agencies, and communities.

The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) released its 2017 report, America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis: Effects on People with Intellectual Disabilities, Families, Communities and the U.S. Economy. The full report and a shorter plain language are available.

The 2024 President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) Report to the President, Advancing Independence and Community Integration for All: Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities through High-Quality Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS)

A series of reports identifying a common set of core competencies across community-based long-term services and supports sectors: aging, behavioral health (including mental health and substance use), intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities.

The goal of the survey and the resulting data is to help state developmental disabilities systems (DD systems) examine workforce challenges, identify areas for further investigation, benchmark their workforce data, measure improvements made through policy or programmatic changes, and compare their state data to those of other states and the NCI-IDD average.

Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts provides a new annual snapshot of the direct care workforce, including its demographics, occupational roles, job quality challenges, and projected job openings. The report includes detailed overviews of three segments of this workforce: home care workers, residential care aides, and nursing assistants in nursing homes.