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Workforce Intervention Resources
A newly published guidebook to help with the three most challenging issues facing community human services organizations.
College of Direct Support - Visit a web site offering competency-based, interactive multimedia training curriculum for direct support professionals in community settings.
College of Frontline Supervision - Visit a web site offering competency-based, interactive multimedia training curriculum about finding, training, and retaining high quality employees who provide daily support to individuals with disabilities or similar needs.
Structured Interview Questions -
Sample questions for personnel reviews based on the Community Support Skill Standards.
New Staff Survey -
Survey designed to assess the expectations, experiences and attitudes of recently hired staff.
Staff Satisfaction Survey -
The first page of this survey is a general satisfaction survey for staff. Items on which fewer than 80% of the respondents say the organization is good or excellent are areas where changes may be needed. The second page of this survey summarizes opinions about the best aspect of organizations, what organizations can do differently to help people in their jobs, factors that make people want to leave and factors that make employees want to stay at the organization. The response choices were developed based on open ended responses to these questions from several hundred direct support professionals in several studies.
An RJP is a recruitment strategy used to give potential employees detailed and balanced information about job expectations, the employer, and the worksite, so they can make an informed decision about accepting a job offer from the employer.
Purchasing Options
Option 1: Direct Support: A Realistic Job Preview
$80 (VHS) and $85 (DVD).Both include a Realistic Job Preview User's Guide.
Option 2: Basic Customization
Cost:$1,800,includes 5 copies in DVD or VHS
We will make high-resolution scans of pictures you provide (20-25 images), featuring your agency and direct support professionals at work, and incorporate them into the program in a separate section highlighting the work, mission, and job expectations of your agency. We will also provide professional narration and help you in composing a script for this purpose.
Option 3: Deluxe Customization
Cost:$4,500 plus travel and accommodations, incudes 10 copies in VHS or DVD
We will travel to your location and provide one full day of professional video production, interviewing the agency director or other executive staff, and shooting coverage of various direct support professionals at work. The interview and footage will be edited into a new section of the program highlighting your agency's work, mission, and job expectations for new staff. We will also intercut this footage into the overall program, including your DSPs prominently in the video.
View/Download a flyer/order form for the RJP Video
This poster describes a set of workforce principles developed by the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) to encourage organizations and individuals to adopt policies and practices that result in a competent, committed direct support workforce. Poster is 16" x 20", metallic green and black. Produced by NADSP in collaboration with the Institute on Community Integration's Research and Training Center on Community Living.
Developed by the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP), the Code is intended to serve as a straightforward and relevant guide for DSPs as they resolve the ethical dilemmas they face every day, and encourages them to achieve the highest ideals of the profession.
Code of Ethics products include brochures, which provide the entire text of the Code, and poster and wallet cards which provide a quick-reference version.
Read the full text of the Code of Ethics.
The Direct Support Professional Recruitment Toolkit arms individuals, families,
consortiums, and organizations with the marketing tools they need to attract and
recruit quality staff into direct support roles. Traditional sources for employee
recruitment including newspaper ads, brochures, and flyers, have frequently been
generic and flat. This tool changes that approach into a dynamic and targeted
recruitment campaign for human service agencies and those who direct their own
supports.
Target Marketing
Target marketing is essential to attract the quality staff you desire. Although many
employers are aware of what target marketing is, they find it difficult and time
consuming to create a different marketing campaign for the different groups of
people they wish to attract for employment. The targeted groups include: stay at
home moms/dads, college students, Gen-Yers, seniors, faith-based communities,
Spanish-speaking communities, and displaced workers.
Customization
The Direct Support Professional Recruitment Toolkit is designed to be customized
to reflect you or your organization's mission, vision,and values as well as your
logo, and contact information for interested applicants. The Direct Support Professional
Recruitment Toolkit includes brochures, flyers, newspaper ads, and recruitment cards
for each of the seven target marketing groups. Materials are provided to
you on a CD-rom in both Microsoft Word™ and Adobe PageMaker™ formats.
View/Download a flyer/order form for the Toolkit
Frontline Initiative - Read current and back issues of the official newsletter of The National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP).
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