About Us
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ABOUT CDS
The College of Direct Support -- CDS -- did not happen overnight, but it has come quite a distance in three years in fulfilling its commitment to train and celebrate a workforce of direct care professionals nationwide. CDS is a web-based learning management system available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for learners to improve their skills in caring for people across disabilities.
CDS now reaches learners in 25 states from coast to coast with approximately 40,000 people making use of the training on a daily basis. We are training direct support workers in California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Mississippi, Kansas, Tennessee, South Dakota, New Hampshire and Missouri, to name a few.
Our training curriculum is infused with a set of values and skill standards to train Direct Support Professionals and their supervisors and managers as they support people in community-based settings. Values such as inclusion, honored rights, leading self-determined lives and ethical, values-based treatment, among others, are at the core of CDS training and our mission.
We invite you to spend time with us here at the College of Direct Support and learn exactly what we do, who does it and where. We are all about improving the lives of those with disabilities and thus improving the lives of their families by “Building Careers and Supporting Lives.” That’s the collective vision for the people we serve.
"What the Moore Center has given us with the College of Direct Support is a tool that helps us help those less fortunate than we are, and it’s very self satisfying to give back to others. Education is power and knowledge — something we all need. I’m so grateful for it."
Helen Bennett
DSP
Moore Center
