Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies For Community Human Services Organizations - Softcover

Larson, Sheryl A., Ph.D.; Hewitt, Amy S.

9781557667083: Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies For Community Human Services Organizations

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155766708X ISBN 13: 9781557667083

Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co, 2005

Recruitment, retention, and training of direct support workers are among the most challenging issues facing community human service agencies in America. This book provides practical strategies that managers, supervisors, and administrators can use in their agencies to assess and successfully address workforce challenges. Each strategy is described with detailed instructions about how to assess the strategy, develop an intervention plan, and evaluate its effectiveness. The book offers many illustrative worksheets and guidelines that can be adapted for use by agencies. The book includes strategies that can be used to get "buy in" from affected stakeholders (e.g., direct service providers, clients) so that the strategies will work when implemented. Each chapter includes: an introduction, an outline of Target Front Line Supervisor and Direct Support Personnel skill areas, an overview of the "problem" (e.g., turnover, lack of motivation), research supporting the strategies to be presented, instructions on how to implement the strategy, a discussion of possible roadblocks to implementing the strategy and how to deal with them, a summary, further resources, and sample forms and guidelines.

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About the Author:

Sheryl A. Larson, Ph.D., has 23 years of experience in providing services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities as a residential counselor, behavior analyst, program evaluator, consultant, personal advocate and researcher. She earned a B.A. in psychology and elementary education from Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development. Her dissertation examined factors associated with turnover in small group home settings. She is Research Director and a principal investigator at the Research and Training Center on Community Living, where she has worked since 1987, directing projects involving survey and intervention research, secondary analysis of large data sets, and research synthesis on residential services, personnel issues, disability statistics, and community integration for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Dr. Larson has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications on those topics.

Amy S. Hewitt, M.S.W., Ph.D., has an extensive background and work history in the field of developmental disabilities and has worked in various positions over the past 23 years, including as a residential Program Director and Director of Training. 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 the area of workforce development and community supports for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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