The College of Direct Support was born in 2002 – in collaboration with the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota, a national leader in research supporting people with developmental disabilities. By starting as a Project of National Significance with support of the United States Department of Health & Human Services Administration on Disabilities, we made commitments to training – ones we still hold today.
Since then, the DirectCourse family has grown as the need for training in other areas expanded. It now includes the College of Employment Services, the College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving, the College of Recovery and Community Inclusion, and Person-Centered Counseling. Like the College of Direct Support, each of these curricula are authored by the leading university-based Research and Training Centers in that field.
