T-TAP: Staffing

Presentations:
	Topics: Staff Training and Development and Customized Employment: Developing Employment Specialist Skills at the Organizational Level Presenter: Kay Miller Central Piedmont Community College

	Topic: Staff Training and Development for Organizational Change Presenter: Nancy Brooks-Lane Cobb/Douglas Community Services Boards

Fact Sheets:
Staff Development - Customized employment requires a high level of commitment and skill from the staff that provide employment supports on a day-to-day basis. Some Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs) may re-allocate resources and staff from facility-based programs to expand their customized employment services. These individuals may need to develop a new set of skills and values that are very different from direct support roles within the facility-based program. This fact sheet discusses strategies that an organization can use to ensure that employment consultants share the same mission and values for promoting competitive, community-based, integrated employment options.

Changing Staff Roles - Does your organization want to expand its employment options to include customized employment and downsize its facility-based services? If so, this shift may require a new or different way of doing business including changes in staff roles and job descriptions. In the process, staff may experience rapid changes in their roles, or sometimes these changes may happen slowly. In either case, staff will have questions about how a shift in providing services may impact the agency and their jobs.

Developing Employment Consultant Competencies: Career Support Systems in Richmond, Virginia is a member of T-TAP's CRP Leadership Network. Career Support Systems uses two structured checklists to manage both initial orientation and the acquisition of core job competencies. Review how this agency uses these procedures to work with staff.

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