Direct Support Professional (DSP)

The Direct Support Professional (DSP) at Home Places actively engages youth in their day-to-day activities, affording them opportunities to learn, build, and master skills to increase their independence. The primary population of youth enrolled in the program include those with intellectual disabilities and autism.

These activities include the facilitation of recreational and leisure activities to build positive peer and familial relationships; identifying, role-modeling, and practicing the functional use of coping skills to use when faced with challenging situations & life stressors; community-based activities to foster a sense of belonging; activities of daily living within the home such as meal preparation, chore completion, hygiene routines and recreational/leisure activities.