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It’s Direct Support Professional Recognition Week!
Direct Support Professional (DSP) Recognition Week September 11–17, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf has signed an official proclamation dedicating the week of September 11 through September 17, 2022, as Direct Support Professional (DSP) Recognition Week. The proclamation, available to read here, recognizes the vital contributions DSPs provide to address the physical and mental health of individuals with disabilities as well as veterans and senior citizens. Furthermore, the Governor recognizes the immense care it takes for DSPs to develop close, respectful, and trusted relationships with those they support.
Please share any of your celebration pictures of stories with Carol Ferenz!
Still looking for ideas? To support efforts to celebrate your DSPs, ANCOR has compiled a few resources to help you say “thanks” and raise awareness about the important role DSPs play in helping people with disabilities access their community. These resources include customizable social media posts, creative ideas for celebrating DSP Recognition Week, and a DSP Recognition Week Store. Access the toolkit, and please use #DSPRW2022 in your social media postings!
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: September 11–17, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf has signed an official proclamation dedicating the week of September 11–17, 2022, to Direct Support Professional (DSP) Recognition Week. The proclamation, available to read here, recognizes the vital contributions DSPs provide to address the physical and mental health of individuals with disabilities, as well as veterans and senior citizens. Furthermore, the Governor recognizes the immense care it takes for DSPs to develop close, respectful, and trusted relationships with those they support.
RCPA would love to share your celebration activities to recognize these valuable staff members. Please send any photos and/or stories to Carol Ferenz, and we will share them on our social media and daily news.
2022 DSP Recognition Week is September 11–17 — Here’s Everything You Need to Celebrate!
It’s Direct Support Professional Recognition Week! #DSPRW2021
Message from ANCOR:
It’s Direct Support Professional Recognition Week! Your celebrations of the DSPs at the heart of our field are part of a nationwide party we throw every year to showcase the amazing and often unsung work of these incredible professionals, and mark just a small fraction of the recognition that they deserve throughout the year.
Please make sure you’re using #DSPRW2021 and tagging @TheRealANCOR on Facebook and Twitter so we can see and share your celebrations! Also, you can send photos and descriptions of celebrations to André Floyd so that they can be shared on our social media channels directly and highlighted in next Friday’s Weekly Update.
All week long, use our DSP Recognition Week Toolkit to access images, state DSP Proclamations, sample social media messages and more that enable you to spread the word among your networks. Also be on the lookout later in the week for the opening of nominations for our 2022 Direct Support Professional of the Year Awards. Stay tuned for more details!
This is one of our favorite times of year, and we cannot wait to celebrate with you and see all of your celebrations! Thank you for leveraging this week to express your gratitude for the essential work our DSPs do, day in and day out, to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We couldn’t do what we do without them!
Thank you DSPs!