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Preparing for Retirement Wave: Professional Development for Sustainable Employment

Explore the need for professional development to sustain community integrated employment amidst changing demographics and retirement trends. Discover training options and leadership needs in the field of rehabilitation. Learn about the critical importance of developing future leaders and how it impacts service quality and staff retention rates.

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Preparing for Retirement Wave: Professional Development for Sustainable Employment

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  1. 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.

  2. Agenda • Need for professional development • Changing demographics • Changing accreditation and certification requirements • Training options • Just in time options • Leadership certificate program

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. 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?

  6. 2017 CESP Exams Scheduled to Date 54% of States are offering exams

  7. Levels of Training Need • Introduction to Field • Professionalization of Field • Business relationships • Customized Employment Skills • Development of Future Leaders

  8. Professional Development Plan included in Performance Evaluation?

  9. Just in time learning

  10. College of Employment Services • Online training content • Assign lessons based on learners need • Content built on APSE competencies • ACRE Supplement

  11. CES video

  12. 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

  13. Leadership Certificate Program • Executive and Mid-Level Leadership Development

  14. Leadership Succession • Developing a new generation of leadership for disability services • Adapted from established leadership and management certificate programs

  15. Leadership and Management • Tailored for IDD executive and mid level leadership • Designed with input from DD provider community

  16. Course Topics

  17. Course Topics • Self understanding: self assessment • Develop clarity of personal values, purpose and vision • Develop and execute a personal strategy

  18. What We Learned • Managers were not trained to take on leadership positions • Applied learning design allowed for knowledge & skill acquisition

  19. Attention needed to build capacity at all levels of the organization • Employment organizations require highly qualified service and management staff

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