The National Alliance of Direct Support Professionals Code of Ethics
Join us for a day of learning, connection, and professional growth!
| Date: | Wednesday, June 10, 2026 |
| Time: | 9:00am – 12:00pm CST or 1:00pm – 4:00pm CST |
| Location: | Virtual – this is a virtual conference utilizing the Zoom platform. Link will be sent to you upon registration. |
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Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who support people in their communities are called upon to make independent judgements on a frequent basis that involve both practical and ethical reasoning. The people who assume this complex role must examine their own values and beliefs while honoring those of the people they support.
Presenter
John Raffaele, MSW
Director of Educational Services, NADSP
Read John’s Biography
John Raffaele, MSW is the Director of Educational Services at the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP). His social work graduate education is from Yeshiva University and his undergraduate degree is from New York City and State Univerisity of New York at New Paltz, NY.
His career spans four decades and those years have been spent practicing direct support, facilitating community organization in the national direct support workforce community, and training and teaching direct support professionals along with the people they support.
Most of the people with whom he has worked with an supported over the last 40 years, as a social worker and direct support professional, are people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, at-risk youth, and people with chronic and terminal illnesses in home-care settings.
Between 2001 and 2012 John worked as a Director of Training and Education for a major developmental disabilities service provider in New York and also gained notoriety consulting and teaching throughout the United States.
John founded his own international direct support professional consulting company in 2012 and over the last decade has developed many excited and informative training programs and helped propel the NADSP into national prominence.
John became NADSP’s Director of Educational Services in December of 2016. John has educated tens of thousands of people in the NADSP Code of Ethics and Competencies and he works tirelessly to elevate the status, role and expectations of the North American direct support professional workforce.
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