Direct Support Professional Workforce Crisis Community Meeting

WIND hosted a community meeting in October of 2021 to get strategies and share successful approaches for the recruitment and retention of direct service providers in Wyoming.

The current difficulties in recruiting and retaining support professionals risk the ability to meet the service needs of individuals on the developmental disability waivers.

Individuals who participated in the forum include:

Waiver clients
Direct support professionals
Case managers
Family members
Advocates
Policy makers and elected officials
Interested community members
State agency administrators

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A summary of what was learned at the community meetings is now available.

The responses highlight the need for increased professionalization and changes to the organization structure of the field. Read more on the attached two-page PDF summary.

Additional information will be shared here soon regarding ways we will be moving forward to address what we learned. For more information on how you can be involved, please contact the WIND main office at uwwind@uwyo.edu or by calling 307-766-2761.