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Welcome to the College of Frontline Supervision (CFS)!

NOTE:Due to the completion of the supporting grant, this version of the College of Frontline Supervision (CFS) is no longer open to new learner registrations as of 11/23/05.* Registered learners will have until 12/23/05 to complete and remaining lessons. The CFS content is now available as a fee-based curriculum through the College of Direct Support (CDS). For more information, please visit the CDS web site at: http://www.collegeofdirectsupport.com.

*Registration is still open to participants in the National Training Institute for Frontline Supervisors (NTIFFS) and the Illinois Comprehensive Workforce Development Initiative to Achieve Improved Individual Outcomes for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities.

This is your portal to learning more about finding, training, and retaining high quality employees who provide daily support to individuals with disabilities or similar needs. The College of Frontline Supervision gives you access to a wealth of information and online tools. They are designed to help you track and reduce turnover of people in direct support roles. While the primary audience of the CFS is frontline supervisors, much of the content is useful to anyone who hires, fires, or trains direct support professionals .This includes family members or individuals with disabilities who hire their own direct support professionals.

The CFS delivers its content in the form of four online courses. The courses use photos, narration, text, and interactive exercises to help you understand and apply the materials. The content stems from established supervisor competencies and best practices in this area. For a period of time the content is available free of charge over the Internet for people who are willing to participate in a research study. Content in alternative methods is available for those who are not interested in participating in the study.

• If you are already registered, click on "log in" to return to your courses.

• If you are new to the CFS, it is recommended you click on "About the CFS", where you can learn about the courses and the research study.

• To check your computer capacity to run the CFS courses you can click on the "Help and Support" link.

• If you are ready to view a multimedia introduction to the CFS and decide whether to register for the courses, you can click on "Overview & Registration"

The College of Frontline Supervision was developed the Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota. Course development and dissemination was supported by several grants including: the Mobilizing for Change project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institutes on Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant # H133A990001; the Partnership for Success Project funded by the U.S. Department of Labor grant # N-7596-9-00-87-60; the Training Initiative Project funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant #90-DD04468-02; and the Research and Training Center on Community Living funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institutes on Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant # H133B031116.

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