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Blueprint for creating an Employment First Culture with Quality Outcomes
Andrea Davies Consigny, M.Ed., CESP
Chelsea Lutts, M.Ed., CESP
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Business Partners
Organizational Commitment
Right Fit Employees
Productivity and Fiscal Strength
Team Approach
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
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APSE Statement on Employment First
Employment in the general workforce is the first and preferred outcome in the provision of
publicly funded services for all working age citizens with disabilities, regardless of level of disability.
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Employment First
• Employment is community based, inclusive, and pay is a commensurate wage, minimum wage or higher
• Presumes everyone is ready to work
• Everyone is employable
• Other services compliment employment
• Full inclusion
• Focus on abilities and capacities
• Dignity of taking risks
• Individualized supports
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Current Trends
• Shift from facility based to community based services
• Tremendous opportunity for growth
• Critical look at how and where services are provided
• Be proactive and thoughtful about changes
• Opportunity for improvement!
• Align services with CMS Final Rule
• Constantly questioning practices, values, and beliefs
• How can we do better?!?
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Think about your blueprint for success…
What is your Employment First goal for your organization?
What changes need to be made to reach the goal?
What is your role as a change agent?
What are potential barriers to achieving the goal?
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Organizational Commitment
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Organizational Commitment
• SPIN closed our workshop in 2007
▫ Align services with mission
▫ 15 year transition plan
▫ Individual and family involvement
▫ Town Hall Meetings
▫ Investment in Employment Services
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Organizational Commitment
• Strong Corporate and Board commitment to Employment First
• Create vision and mission
• Engage key stakeholders
• Strategic Plan Goal
• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!
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Organizational Commitment
• Employment training for all employees
• Employment First practices and philosophy across all service lines
• Employment Champions
• Celebrate Successes
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Business Partners
Organizational Commitment
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Business Partners
• Build a network of business partners that can help share the mission of Supported Employment
• Look to trusted vendors and stakeholders for networking connections
• Understand business needs before discussing employment opportunities
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Business Partners
• Become an active part of the business community by joining your local Chamber of Commerce and attending networking events ▫ Invest and build relationships with business
partners
• Support individuals to build their own relationships with their coworkers and managers ▫ Develops natural supports ▫ Fosters appreciation for individual's strengths and
contributions to the work place
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Business Partners Mistakes
• Taking advantage of supportive employers
• Preference vs. Accommodation
• Tug on their heart strings
• Under sell applicants
• Encourage special treatment when convenient
• Use system speak
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Avoid these common mistakes
• Taking advantage of supportive employers ▫ Be respectful of your business partner and
understand their perspective
• Preference vs. Accommodations ▫ Support individuals to understand and follow
workplace policies ▫ Follow guidelines for requesting a needed
accommodation
• Tug on their heart strings ▫ Focus on strengths of applicants and business’
hiring needs, not their disability
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Avoid these common mistakes
• Under sell applicants
▫ Look for right fit employment opportunities that offer the hours and job task desired by individual
▫ Any job is not the right job
• Encourage special treatment when convenient
▫ Support individuals to expect fair equal treatment regardless of the situation
• Use system speak
▫ Use plain language without acronyms
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Business Partners
Organizational Commitment
Team Approach
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Team Approach – Transition to
Employment
• Build relationships
• Discuss possibilities
• Address barriers and fears in a safe environment
• Don’t sugarcoat it!
• Connect with peers successfully employed
• Joel’s story!
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Team Approach – Employment Plan
• Collaborate with entire team when creating employment plans (parents, case managers, VR, teachers, family, other service providers, employers)
• Individual is at the center of and leads the planning process
• Utilize Customized Employment Strategies
• Monitor process and adjust plan as needed
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Team Approach - Families
• Families and individuals are often apprehensive about finding community based employment
▫ Listen!
▫ Provide success stories that shows positive employment outcomes
▫ Create a mentor network for families
▫ Discuss logistics about employment early and often
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Communication Tips
• Conversations can go in a different direction than planned when families are frustrated or upset with the service being provided
• During these anxious conversations you can utilize this strategy..
▫ Validate
▫ Restate
▫ Redirect
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Business Partners
Organizational Commitment
Productivity and Fiscal Strength
Team Approach
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Productivity
• Productivity standards should clearly define departmental and individual staff expectations
• Essential when developing a successful Employment Services model
• Set productivity standards for each employee and for the department as a whole
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Productivity-Benefits
• Helps entire department work towards common goal
• Clear expectations for job performance
• Provides structure to weekly schedules
• Establishes achievable short and long term goals
• Ensures department remains profitable throughout entire year
• Improves employee focus
• Unified team
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What is Productivity?
• Sustainability
• Solution focused
• Efficiency
• Data based decisions
• Resource management
• Effective business practices
• Effective use of technology
• Financial and organizational strength
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How to determine productivity standards?
• Considerations:
▫ Support needs of individuals
▫ Staff training and vacation time
▫ Travel time
▫ Operational responsibilities (casenotes, team communication, meetings etc)
▫ Department and Organization budget
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How to manage productivity?
• Know current productivity
▫ Bi-weekly Audit- don’t let productivity get away from you!
▫ Track productivity increases and decreases to understand trends and progress
• Staff buy-in
▫ Clear understanding of expectations
▫ Know how to create a balanced and productive schedule
▫ Strategize ways to improve if staff is not meeting productivity standards
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Fiscal Strength
• Establishing and monitoring departmental productivity will help ensure long term fiscal strength for your department
• Growth is essential to be able to support the growing numbers of individuals who want to find employment!
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Blueprint for Successful
Employment Services
Employment First
Business Partners
Organizational Commitment
Right Fit Employees
Productivity and Fiscal Strength
Team Approach
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Right Fit Staff
• Ambassadors of Organization and Supported Employment- Employment Specialists interact with the community on a consistent basis
• Variety of backgrounds
• Personality Fit!
• Comfortable in unfamiliar
settings
• Flexible and motivated
• Understand the
responsibilities of being
a mobile employee
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Right Fit Qualities
• Energetic • Passionate • Flexible • Problem solvers • Independent • Creative • Reliable • Team player
• Intelligent • Compassionate • Focused • Proactive • Open • Honest • Driven • Candid
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What do mobile employees need?
• Managers who understand and adapt to changing needs of employee
• Clear expectations • Communication • Feedback • Access to updated technology
▫ Sharing information ▫ Communicating decisions ▫ Collaborating ▫ Cost efficiency (mileage, office space, time)
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SPIN
10980 Norcom Rd
Philadelphia, PA 19154
www.spininc.org
Andrea Consigny [email protected] Chelsea Lutts [email protected]