This guidebook is designed to help community colleges develop programs to train direct care personnel for new community-based residential facilities for developmentally disabled people. Such programs are expected to be increasingly necessary since high priority has been recently given to implementing new forms of care for the developmentally disabled. The first and second chapters of this publication define the population of developmentally disabled persons and the types of personnel which are currently relied upon to provide service and care to such individuals. The third chapter reviews specific questions which the community college must answer before it implements a program for the training of direct care personnel. The fourth chapter addresses, at a conceptual level, the development of a direct care personnel training program in terms of program objectives, scope and content. The fifth and sixth chapters examine several model programs currently in operation, suggesting that while academic training is important, direct experience is also extremely valuable. The final chapter includes general recommendations relating to development of such programs at the community college level. A bibliography is included. (JDS)