Policy
Research Brief: Wages of Direct Support Professionals Serving Persons
with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Survey of State
Agencies and Private Residential Provider Trade Associations (2003).
This brief summarizes the results of a survey of state agencies administering
services for persons with intellectual disabilities and developmental
disabilities (ID/DD) and state-level residential service provider
trade associations. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/142.pdf
Options For Research On Extrinsic Rewards. This
paper focuses on extrinsic rewards and their effects on recruitment
and retention of paraprofessional workers in long- term care settings.
Tilly, Jane, and Mary Ann Wilner. June 4, 2001. The Urban Institute/
PHI. Please contcat the Clearinghouse for a
copy.
Cheating dignity: A direct care wage crisis in America. This
report from AFSCME examines 1999 national and state median hourly
wage and employment estimates for direct-care workers, concluding
that our nation fails to pay direct-care workers self-sufficient
wages and benefits. The report uses a self-sufficiency standard developed
by Wider Opportunities for Women that measures how much income is
needed for a family to meet its basic needs. http://www.afscme.org/pol-leg/cdtc.htm
State Wage Pass-Through Legislation: An Analysis, Workforce
Strategies, No. 1. In this issue brief, the authors
describe the structure of wage pass-through programs in several
states; summarize what is known about the impact of these programs
on recruitment and retention of direct-care workers, and identify
key design elements that states should consider if they choose
to implement a wage pass-through. http://www.paraprofessional.org/publications/WorkforceStrategies1.pdf
Finding and Keeping Direct Care Staff. This guide
pulls from the successes of employee-owned companies and offers lessons
to long term care and home care organizations interested in providing
both quality care and a quality work environment. http://www.paraprofessional.org/publications/findkeep.pdf
Are You Ready: A Personal Assistant
Bonus Program To Recognize Excellent Employees. This article
describes an initiative by the Northwestern Illinois Center for
Independent Living to recognize and reward quality personal assistants
(PAs) through an employee-of-the-month bonus plan. http://www.ilru.org/ilnet/files/reading/ready.txt
Staff Recruitment, Retention, and
Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations.
Recruitment, retention, and training — the three most challenging
issues facing community human services organizations. Now supervisors,
managers, and administrators have a practical guidebook for facing
these challenges and staffing their agencies with dedicated, motivated
direct support professionals. Each chapter of this easy-to-read
handbook focuses on a critical workforce issue such as recruiting
and hiring employees, socializing and supporting staff, strengthening
commitment and skills through mentoring programs, building effective
teams, fostering diversity and cultural competence, and designing
and surviving organizational change.
http://www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/larson-708x/index.htm
Removing the Revolving Door: Strategies
to Address Recruitment and Retention Challenges Facilitator Guide.
This curriculum targets frontline supervisors and managers regarding
the development and use of effective recruitment, retention, and
training strategies. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/rrd_facguide.pdf
Removing the Revolving Door: Strategies
to Address Recruitment and Retention Challenges Learner Guide.
This curriculum targets frontline supervisors and managers regarding
the development and use of effective recruitment, retention, and
training strategies. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/rrd_lrnguide.pdf
College of Frontline Supervision.
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. http://rtc.umn.edu/cfs/main/
Issues in the Direct Support Workforce
and their Connections to the Growth, Sustainability and Quality
of Community Supports. The complexity of the current direct
support workforce crisis, the effects of this crisis on various
stakeholder groups and potential strategies to address them will
be further explored throughout this paper. Relevant research, policy,
reports and other resources related to these topics will also be
summarized. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/hcfa.pdf
The National Alliance for Direct
Support Professionals Code of Ethics. Developed by the 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. http://www.nadsp.org/library/code.html
Staff Supervision and Management
Store: Quality Mall. Products on the skills needed by supervisors,
consumers, and families for supervising direct support providers. http://www.qualitymall.org/directory/dept1.asp?deptid=11
Staff Satisfaction Survey.
This survey is a general satisfaction survey for staff. It also collects
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. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/staffsatisfaction.pdf
Frontline Initiative. This
newsletter is dedicated to promoting the interests of Direct Support
Professionals by encouraging a better trained, more respected, and
more involved workforce. Frontline Initiative is a project of the
National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals and is published
by the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University
of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration. Cost of
one year subscription: $10.00, orders of 20 or more are $5.00 per
subscription. Sorry, we are unable to accept credit cards or purchase
orders for Frontline Initiative. http://www.nadsp.org/library/periodic.html
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