Amy S. Hewitt, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Amy S. Hewitt, M.S.W., Ph.D., has more than 20 years of background and work history in the field of disabilities. Over the past 23 years, she has been a residential Program Director and Director of Training, and she is currently Research Associate and Director of Interdisciplinary Training at the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration, where she directs several federal and state research, evaluation, and demonstration projects in the areas of direct support professional (DSP) workforce development and community human services for people with disabilities. Dr. Hewitt is a national leader in workforce development and community supports for individuals with disabilities.
Dr. Hewitt’s current projects include the College of Direct Support, a national training curriculum development project that offers training to more than 100,000 DSPs throughout the United States; Mobilizing for Change, an Administration on Developmental Disabilities field-initiated project to develop an on-line training curriculum for frontline supervisors (College of Frontline Supervision); and Removing the Revolving Door, a national project to implement a train-the-trainer technical assistance model in five states to teach others how to help organizations reduce DSP turnover and vacancy rates.
Dr. Hewitt has authored and co-authored many curricula, journal articles, and manuscripts. She is co-author of Staff Recruitment, Retention, and Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations; a managing editor of Frontline Initiative, a national newsletter for DSPs; a contributing editor for LINKS, a newsletter of ANCOR; and guest editor of Mental Retardation, a journal of the American Association on Mental Retardation.
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Seminar(s) by Amy S. Hewitt
Workforce Development in Community Human Services: A Focus on Direct Support Employee Retention and Training |
