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Are We Prepared for the Wave of Retirements?: Professional Development to Sustain Community Integrated Employment Karen Flippo Sheila Fesko Institute for Community Inclusion. <<Select your logo if you want one. These can be resized or deleted. <<The CHB logo can be removed if you want.
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Are We Prepared for the Wave of Retirements?: Professional Development to Sustain Community Integrated Employment Karen Flippo Sheila Fesko Institute for Community Inclusion <<Select your logo if you want one. These can be resized or deleted. <<The CHB logo can be removed if you want.
Agenda • Need for professional development • Changing demographics • Changing accreditation and certification requirements • Training options • Just in time options • Leadership certificate program
Leadership Needs in Rehabilitation • 50% of state VR counselors in New England will retire in the next 5 years • 10,000 people in the US turn 65 every day.
Who are the senior people in your state/agency? • When are they likely to retire? • Are there people who are prepared/trained to replace them? • How will you staff up junior staff when people move up?
What do senior people moving into leadership need to know? • What are you doing to develop the staff you have? • What are you doing to prepare and retain your junior staff?
2017 CESP Exams Scheduled to Date 54% of States are offering exams
Levels of Training Need • Introduction to Field • Professionalization of Field • Business relationships • Customized Employment Skills • Development of Future Leaders
Professional Development Plan included in Performance Evaluation?
College of Employment Services • Online training content • Assign lessons based on learners need • Content built on APSE competencies • ACRE Supplement
Curriculum • Retention Rates • North Carolina pilot –turnover rate dropped from 42% to 8% in demo sites • Rochester NY—retention went from 66% to 94%. Savings from retaining staff $175,000
Leadership Certificate Program • Executive and Mid-Level Leadership Development
Leadership Succession • Developing a new generation of leadership for disability services • Adapted from established leadership and management certificate programs
Leadership and Management • Tailored for IDD executive and mid level leadership • Designed with input from DD provider community
Course Topics • Self understanding: self assessment • Develop clarity of personal values, purpose and vision • Develop and execute a personal strategy
What We Learned • Managers were not trained to take on leadership positions • Applied learning design allowed for knowledge & skill acquisition
Attention needed to build capacity at all levels of the organization • Employment organizations require highly qualified service and management staff