DANIE EAGLETON LMHC

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

NAVOS

Exploring Opportunities to Create an Effective and Diverse Workforce

WELCOME!

Ladder of opportunity

2-Year Schools, Colleges and Universities Internships and Capstone Projects

TACs (Technical Advisory Committees)

Community Advisory Committees

Community Partnerships ◦Consulting

◦Training

◦Embedding

5 CACREP-ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS IN WASHINGTON STATE. THERE ARE OVER 600 CACREP-ACCREDITED PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES

THE BENEFITS OF CACREP PROGRAMS INCLUDE:

For students: Provides assurance that appropriate knowledge and skills are included in the program

Increases marketability for employment

Prepares students to sit for state licensure

Ensures fluidity in the licensure process

Eases the licensure process between states

Provides a foundation for future doctoral studies

For employers: Indicates that candidates for employment graduated from a rigorous program

Signifies that graduates achieved high quality standards and competencies

Ensures that graduates possess minimal knowledge and skills for success

Denotes that graduates are knowledgeable of current trends and best practices

Ensures that candidates for employment have potential for achieving success

CACREP Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)

Questions to think about and to take back to your organization

Do you have an internship program?

How does it work?

Do you have community partnerships with 2 year schools, colleges and universities?

Are those schools familiar what your organization’s population, the system that it works in, and how the organization does it’s work?

Strategies

Create relationships with 2 year schools, colleges and universities.

Look at programs in these institutions that could benefit your organization and clients.

Look your existing job positions and your organizational(client) needs and see if there are ways to adjust your educational requirements. Could you have positions that were AA or BA level? Can you create career ladders in your organization and in partnerships with 2 year schools, colleges and universities?

Become part of a Technical and Community Advisory committee

Become a Guest Speaker or agree to participate in career panel discussions

Diversifying our workforce – The 2 Year campus is the sweet spot. Our biggest opportunities to find diverse populations to hire from are on the 2 year campus.

Mentor

Open up your doors! ◦ AA, ◦ CDPT, ◦ Peer Volunteer opportunities, ◦ Internships, ◦ Capstone projects, ◦ Advocacy Project

Diversifying our workforce

Diversifying our workforce – Are you/organization ready? Lots of words

Environment (orientation, communication, and P&Ps)

Looking at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through the lens of our work

Letting Equity lead the way

Diversifying our workforce – Are you ready – to Rumble?

Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. This is my truth. And I will choose how the story ends. Brené Brown, Rising Strong

Tools The RESPECTFUL framework can be applied in the counseling

especially because it focuses on the following factors of an individual’s development:

(R) religious-spiritual identity

(E) ethnic-cultural-racial background

(S ) sexual identity

(P) psychological maturity

(E ) economic class background

(C) chronological-developmental challenges

(T ) threats to one ‘s personal well-being

(F ) family history and dynamics

(U ) unique physical characteristics , and

(L ) Location of residence

(D ‘Andrea Daniels 2000).

Other tools that you can use

Relias /Other online learning

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Equity Audits

Office of Civil Rights

Consultant/Trainers

Loaned Executives/United Way Volunteers

Leadership Tomorrow

Book groups

Commit to Being Curious, to Learning, to Being Present, and to Actively Practicing

This is where it all started

• Community Mental Health Act of 1963

• Community Mental Health Center Act of 1964

Ecological Counseling

For Community Counseling to truly be effective there must be shared dialogue and understanding between the multiple systems in which the counseling relationship is embedded.

These systems include the counselor-client relationship, the agency setting, the co-providers of service in the community, the local funding authority, the state and federal regulatory systems, and the larger political arena

Knowledge of the healthcare delivery system, knowledge of management and administration, skills in outcome-oriented treatment planning, technological preparedness, advocacy skills, and time management are essential for the ecological counselor

Ecological Counseling “... counselor should be confident in the following :

A. Understanding healthcare delivery systems and their organization and financing systems.

B. Knowledge and skills and management and administration

C. Ability to complete outcome oriented treatment planning

D. Basic skills in the use of technology a knowledge of best practices in treatment with time management and advocacy skills.

These competencies help decrease burn out.” O’Connell, W. and Mabry, A. (2004). The ecology of community counseling: An administrator’s perspective in Ecological

Counseling: An Innovative Approach to Conceptualizing Person Environment Interactions. E. Cook and B. Conyne (Eds.). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association. 243-263.

Engagement

STORIES OF ENGAGEMENT

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.” ―

Questions to think about and to take back to your organization

Do our direct services staff engage with our clients? How do we know?

Do we have Engagement tools , plans or workflow embedded in our service delivery design?

Transparency Transparency…implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. It has been defined simply as "the perceived quality of intentionally shared information from a sender“

Making the connection - Tying up loose ends

Community Partnerships with educational institutions increase opportunities to find new hires.

Diversifying your workforce can begin on the 2 year level

To keep your diverse workforce you will need to take an honest look at your work environment.

Being transparent about the work of behavioral health increases it’s effectiveness.

Engagement is the key to: ◦ Recovery ◦ Trauma Informed Care ◦ Integrated Health

Thank you for all that you do!