John Raffaele, MSW is the Director of Educational Services at the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals. John has a Masters of Social Work degree and is a highly experienced group worker, community organizer, educator and facilitator. John’s graduate education is from Yeshiva University in New York City and State University of New York at New Paltz, NY.
His career spans over three decades and those years have been spent teaching direct support professionals and the people they support. Most of the people with whom he has worked and supported over the last 30 plus years 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 developmental disabilities service provider in New York and gained notoriety consulting and teaching throughout the United States. John also taught undergraduate and graduate human services classes at The State University at New Paltz, NY and for the City University of New York City.
John founded his own international direct support professional consulting company in 2012 and over the last several years, in contract with the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals and in close partnership with NADSP Executive Director Joseph Macbeth, has developed many exciting and informative training programs and helped propel the NADSP into national/international 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 most recently, the NADSP Informed Decision Making curriculum and Frontline Supervisor Train the Trainer Curriculum.
Sessions with John Raffaele
August 11, 2022
August 12, 2021
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM